Team fortress rendering techniques

Jay Evans · Aug 2007

I didnt see this posted yet? Interesting info on the art direction.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23520.html

adam · Aug 2007

Awesome Jay. They talked about this last year at the Source Dev. Conference, I'm glad they put this out for the public.

ME RIKEY.

Matabus · Aug 2007

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Awesome Jay. They talked about this last year at the Source Dev. Conference, I'm glad they put this out for the public.

ME RIKEY.

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Me rikey rong time arso.

Asmuel · Aug 2007

That was great

cant wait to play this thing.

greenj2 · Aug 2007

Cool, thanks for posting Jay. Very interesting to see their art and rendering methods broken down and explained. I'll have to watch it a few more times to properly get my head around all that lighting/material jargon.

Emil Mujanovic · Aug 2007

Thanks for this dude, and I'm with you on that Eagle. I've already played it through 3 times now.

-caseyjones

Xenobond · Aug 2007

Haha. Sweet!

bounchfx · Aug 2007

Wow, that's just.. awesome. Can't wait

HonkyPunch · Aug 2007

I love how all the comments are like
"BORING"
They just dont understand. Obviously 13 year old halo addicts
This was an interesting video to watch

MoP · Aug 2007

Very nice.

ElysiumGX · Aug 2007

Best looking "next-gen" game yet. Valve is making all the right choices.

Slum · Aug 2007

Sweet. Great video.

Hilarious comments.

"...what...? that was way to fucking complicated. damn giant words lol.

still looks like a sick game, I love the sort of cartoon style it possesses... whoa I think the video just made me use a big word!"

ebagg · Aug 2007

I would hit it like the angry fist of god.

arshlevon · Aug 2007

really cool, the first few minutes when they are just talking about basic art principals was a little lugubrious to sit through, i dont think its a bad thing, just misleading when the video is suppose to be about lighting and shading and it was mostly first year art school design stuff.
i would of loved if they went more into the tech..

Cthogua · Aug 2007

Hehehe...and here we see a sweet potato, rendered with a clamped hoosamawhatsis and several layers of glancing googlemazoos.

Seriously though, that was a cool video. Its nice to see such an indepth explaination of their rendering methods. I also really really love the idea of taking visual cues from "golden era" illustrations.

Mongrelman · Aug 2007

I love how they're putting in this tech for a cartoony game, not just saying "well it's cartoony, so just do some basic cell shading and it will run fast".

I'd really like to make a character like this

j_bradford · Aug 2007

This looks promising; their rendering passes have always impressed.

Team fortress rendering techniques

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