It's Play Time [Saxxy 2015 Extended Winner]

Update: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! WE FREAKIN' WON EXTENDED! I couldn't be happier, this has been such an amazing experience!!!

ENTIRE TEAM IS BABIES! Heavy, Demo and Scout are off on an adorable adventure to find the key for a toy chest. The babies must fight through a terrifying car ride, a medieval castle, and a journey through to space to get baby heavy’s favourite toy back.

I am incredibly proud to share my Saxxy this year! It took a huge amount of time and effort, but it was definitely worth it.

Directing, Writing & Animation – Alice Smith (SFMTales)

Lighting & Post-Production – Adam Palmer (PalmliX)

Music - Jeffrey Brice (Pumodi)

Walk Cycles & General Animation – Hypo

Sound Design & Baby Sound Recording - Juan Uribe

Miss Pauling Voice Actor - Sandra Espinoza

Treasure Map & Particles – Mkt777

Toybox & Teddy model – Episoder

Special thanks to the kids and babies who provided their adorable voices for us!

It’s been 2 years now since my last saxxy attempt. I still can’t quite believe I was nominated, thank you to everyone who voted! Shortly after the saxxies finished in 2013, I was hit with some pretty severe neurological vision problems. They progressed and slowly got worse and worse until it got to the point where animation was impossible. This was a really rough time for me. Animation is my passion and to have it taken away like that really hurt. So, I decided if I couldn’t do animation, I was going to plan a huge SFM short that may or may not ever get made in the meantime. It was around October 2014 that I began thinking up ideas, and around February this year I had the idea set. Also around that time, I began some pretty experimental treatment for my vision. Basically, what it ended up doing was making my vision crappy 90% of the time, rather than 100%. In that 10% in the day where I felt up to it, I’d do a small amount of animation.
After 9 long months of hard work (…Which is kinda weird since this IS about babies), this video was the result! I really hope you enjoy it! Everyone on the project put a ton of work into this, and it has been an amazing experience watching it come together. I am incredibly thankful to everyone who has helped me!

This is said often, but I genuinely mean it when I say it… This would have been completely impossible without any single person who worked on this. The amount of work Adam managed to do in just over a month is astonishing. Jeffrey’s music absolutely blew me away. Juan’s sound design and the kids he recorded gave the film so much life. Hypo’s animation absolutely saved me spending days on running animations and other complex stuff, which would never look anywhere near as good as his. Sandra’s voice acting was so perfect I genuinely forgot it was even custom dialogue for Miss Pauling at one point. Rosemary helped keep me sane with her sfm technical help and the fantastic treasure map model she created. Thank you all so, so much.

[monicamondragon]

4:55 I love the way that it shows adult scout as the father of the baby scout alongside ms Pauling being the mother, very wholesome.

[ruthlichtenwalner]

4 yrs later and it is still the cutest TF2 SFM i have seen yet

[yourbigfatmother]

The part where he said


“Bleeeeggghhh”
Really hit deep

[BRONZEZENNX]

This changed me. When I think of a SFM, I think of a animation purposefully stupid and with no logic, but this animated masterpiece is wholesome, logical, and heartwarming. You deserved that saxxy award 👍

[ellocojoncrazy]

It's literally faces of men in tiny bodies, why is it so adorable?

[ThatOneMan]

What I love about this is that it really captures how we saw the world when we were so young. It was such intense and powerful imagination, so fantastical.

[humansulfide]

4:23 it melted my heart when heavy said: "teddy"

[GRNDson]

Baby heavy climbing on baby scouts head to get a sandvich is my favorite part in this entire video.

[bloxxer_tv]

the fact that everyone else's parents came to pick them up and for a second nobody came to pick up scout made me think "oh no. please no. not like this. spy better materialize behind him right now or i'm going to lose it" but its ok bc ms pauling is scouts mom


wait

[Piciou]

The best character in this whole episode is....


The red heavy

[Mynameisntgenji]

All of you are BABIES


WHO SENT ALL THESE BABIES

[binheve]

This shows us the reason why babies/children never get bored, their imagination powers are unmatchable
Edit: thank everyone for over 300 likes cant believe i can get this much

[kirillkiselyov]

This animation is so cute. My heart almost cried when baby scout didn't get a hug. I hope you have a great life.

[quacki]

I legit feel bad for engie. when he's sleeping in the dungeon you can hear him say "Spah Sappin Mah Sentreh" which is clearly a war flashback

[giaucpham]

Entire team IS BABIES


Well, that is true now

[Usa_]

Can we appreciate the fact that Heavy baby saw his real dad's job? even the fact that Heavy smiled because he saw his son?

[lucynhandian]

2:39 when bby Heavy said “ada” it kinda sounded like he was trying to say Dad, kinda like dada(at least to me) and that literally just melted mine and Red Heavy’s heart bruh 😭😭😭

[Mr_RiverDwarf]

2:27 I like to think heavy was early for picking up his son and played with them

[hellopootis]

As the children play in the arena engineer recalls the horrors of the great war

[christianmccarty-xf]

animation: PERFECT.
👌voice acting: PERFECT. everything: PERFECT!!!!