#tf2 rick may collab

[tangentburd]

As one door opens, another shall close Say hello and fight, for he always knows

Here’s my contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab as hosted by @sodafrog13​! I wanted to experiment with a more dramatic angle like some of those in the WAR! Update comic, so I’m glad to have a symmetrical tile shape I could play up the composition and all those metaphors with.

Thank you too for having me on board this project to help out with the graphics and stuff! o7

[ View the collab in its full tile-based, animal-infested, 200% AMERICAN glory on Tumblr and Twitter ]

// inspired by: [ X ] [ X ]

// bonus: loss

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[ragri5]

My second contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab hosted by @sodafrog13​!

View the collab in its full tile-based glory on Tumblr and Twitter

#tf2 #tf2 collab #tf2 soldier #rick may tribute #ragri5

[aifastic]

Hello! Here’s my piece for the Rick May Tribute collab! Thank you mods for organizing this; it was really cool! And congratulations to everyone! Your hard work paid off; the collab looks amazing! Go check it out, please ♥

#Team Fortress 2 #fanart #TF2 Soldier #Rick May tribute collab #Soldier #rest in peace Mr May

[dontneedadispenser]

Participated in a group project hosted by @sodafrog13 / @fuckyeahscienceparty to make a big collage/collab of tribute art for Rick May. I would've liked to have drawn something bigger, but in the end this was what I had to settle with due to other obligations.

Thank you so much for creating this project, Archie! And thank you so much to Rick May. I wasn't active here when he passed, but seeing his statue on 2Fort was what brought me back to TF2.

Here's a screenshot I took when I logged back into TF2 for the first time in years. This was the last day they had the statues in game and I had learned about his passing from other players talking about it. We didn't know when Valve would update the servers and remove them, so we played long past midnight holding the server open and dancing with him.

I hadn't felt a sense of community stronger than that in a while, and especially during quarantine. TF2 has always, at the end of the day, been a very wholesome and wonderful community for me. We have our problems but we truly come together and shine our brightest with our love for this game.

Rest in Peace Rick May, we'll always remember you. Your impact on this community and the world is immeasurable. Rest easy.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 soldier #rick may #my art

[monkey-network]

Good Stuff: Team Fabulous 2

WARNING: Keep your bonks close, your sanvich closer. Thank you, take care out there, and enjoy. And for kitty, Happy Birthday. RIP

TF2 is a game I cherish as much as many. With that, I sincerely gotta appreciate the community for not only helping me finally get my best loadouts, but making plentifully great animations outside of Valve’s already great youtube shorts. Crash Maul’s series, Turbulence, End of the Line, and ‘The Heavy is Dead’ are to name a few, but one sticks out upon ‘em all. What almost 25 million viewers, I say, considered one of the pinnacle of Red and Blue shenanigans that was so great, we're reanimating it ground up to celebrate. I’m talking kitty0706′s Team Fabulous 2.

To think it was 2012, over eight years ago when this released. I wasn’t into the game until 2014, but at the time I could see why so many loved this title. TF2 itself has that timeless factor that, while having a seemingly on and off update cycle still pushes strong with its community of modders and artists. I say it’s like Battle for Bikini Bottom where the game holds such a strong impact on people that even after Overwatch, Fortnite, and Apex Legends all took the spotlight, TF2 persists with its playerbase. This is where Team Fabulous 2 comes in.

For what it is, I wanna say it’s basically the game in a shellnut. It’s not Pixar or Dreamworks tier animation, but for Youtube it’s damn cinematic beauty, imperfections and all. It’s batshit nonsense with memorable moments, and the value comes in it being both a funny and thrilling adventure of TF2 vs GMod servers. The video has a blast with the mercenaries and the main baddies, almost coincidence that it all takes place in a toybox looking warzone. Everything leading up to what I will honorably say is the most kino climax to a fan project I’ll ever see. That ending alone is what makes this one of my favorite videos on Youtube ever and overall makes me respect kitty or Colin a lot for essentially making all of this himself. To quote one comment from the video,

“Somehow without even trying it is the most loved and most memorable video on youtube to quite a lot of people, everyone can say they've seen this video at least once, even people who don't even know what TF2 is. It's like a time capsule for 2012  but you don't cringe seeing the contents.”

This was not only the guy’s most popular youtube video, but the most widely known video in the TF2 community. It’s basically a big love letter to the game, upon his many other GMod videos. A representation of why the community hasn’t let this game die even when Valve mostly left it to die. I honestly can’t think of anything similar for the likes of Fortnite or Overwatch. Even with their mainstream popularity, nothing beyond the porn has ever came close to being that memorable fanmade representative of their respective communities like Team Fab 2 has. It feels like an inviting celebration, months in the making, from somebody who just got it. But, while the video will basically live as long as the internet, kitty himself wasn’t given a good hand.

It was only 3 months after the video released, and three years later when Colin Wyckoff was diagnosed and later died of leukemia. Of course, many in the TF2 community paid tribute on Youtube. We jump ahead to January 2020 where members announced a reanimation of Team Fab 2 along with a charity event to support the research of leukemia, all in honor of Colin and notably later to Rick May, the voice of Soldier, who passed in April due to Covid-19. It is to say that this reanimate collab is godsend, 200 animators coming together to remake this 17 minute video from over eight years ago. 

But as is with reanimations, this certainly isn’t something out of obligation but desire. To think, even when he’s gone all these years, we salute him for the Team Fabulous 2 he made because in truth, there will Never Ever be another video like it.

#Team Fabulous 2 #TF2 #kitty0706 #youtube #analysis #reviews #Good Stuff

[rocketjumpsocio]

to all my tf2 fans out there: i really hope you’re taking the loss of Rick May alright. it’s really tough. and it’s okay to cry, even if you didn’t know him personally. it’s roughing me up too, especially because i’m a soldier main.

i’d like to do an SFM collab piece in honour of him. i’m sure a lot of us have loadouts that represent us, the player, in tf2. i’d like to have a piece with as many of us as we can fit, along with one stock soldier model. i think it’d be really nice as a tribute

if you’d like to join this, please do join this discord server so we can talk more about it. i ask that everyone remains respectful. this is an actual human being that passed away, so please be nice

#tf2 #tf2 sfm #team fortress 2

[ragri5]

Soldier committing armed robbery. Get it? Cause he's robbing arms? And he's armed? :D

This is my first contribution to this year’s TF2 Soldier / Rick May tribute collab hosted by @sodafrog13​!

View the collab in its full tile-based glory on Tumblr and Twitter

#tf2 #tf2 collab #tf2 soldier #rick may tribute #ragri5

[tangentburd]

“I conquered the skies, now the shadows I conquer Skybound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.” [ X ]

~ ★ ~

A personal tribute + part of a collage collab organised by @sodafrog13 over the past few weeks. Thank you for giving me a reason to remember Mr Rick May’s legacy as the voice and soul behind one of the most important personalities in my life.

May you rest well among the stars and far beyond.

// 2020 tribute: [ X ]

#tf2 rick may collab #tf2 #team fortress 2 #rick may #soldier #fanart #godspeed #quotes #translation #goddammit has it been a year already #someone let me know if i messed up the grammar for vici/vinco #how do you lineless colouring #gotta be bolder with colours #soldier appreciation week #tangentials #★