'What is beauty?' - Best Set Design

A giant robot. A giant robot that kills people. That's what beauty is. Now let us sit down and meditate!
EDIT1 Wow it's nominated for Best Set Design and Best Editing! That's bloody awesome! Thanks Valve and TF2 Players!
EDIT2 Just to make it clear - I'm the same guy who made the original achievement_golden_wrench with the robot in, so I didn't steal any content when I put this together. The whole map was built by me.
EDIT3 I won! Thanks everybody who voted for me and to the people who didn't - less thanks than the other people but still thanks for voting! Also I'm mentioning Calum in the speech - he's ginger by the way.
Okay it's disclaimer time! (And I'm WilliamBoo btw - I probably should mention that).
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While I did make the map and the robot I did use materials and props from The Swamp Pack and The Construction Pack - a collection of materials and models from the really awesome tf2maps.net. The following people contributed to the pack: Void, Boylee, Ravidge, Mick-anator, Seba, UGLYdumpling, Lord Ned, HellJumper, Gerbil, Equinoxo and A Boojump Snark. While I didn't ask all of their permission Serba said it was cool aslong as I gave him 10% of the profits. But since he can never really know how much money I put into this I guess I'm in the clear. I'm just assuming that nobody reads this, but if you are - thanks for sticking with me until the end.
Void also textured the computer screen bank.
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I made the map and the robot - I also edited together the particle effects for the smoke and fire. I recorded this and edited it together, but I did force my friends to play through an incredibly buggy map in short notice ( • Video ), but they left me when I needed a second take, so I'm not going to mention Nicho or Skidd. Calum really helped me the most by motivating me with his ability to overcome adversity (the adversity being that he's ginger). Volla helped too.
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I really want to thank the Playstuff community too, they're the ones who got me interested in TF2 to start with and I probably wouldn't be mapping today if it wasn't for them. The whole community is absolutely fantastic and if you're looking for a EU server to play on with a really friendly group of players I'd really suggest checking them out.
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Valve made everything else. Even stuff that wasn't in this video - have you seen Portal 2? They did most of that!
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Volla doesn't smell - I made this account ages ago to upload my map (that I pretended to be recorded by somebody else to try and get a cool viral thing going!)
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You can download the map www.voterocket.... though I warn you there's no materials or anything packed in (plus it wasn't really meant to run as a proper map so I wouldn't bother). You can get a workable version here: www.voterocket....
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[@tfentonz]

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they come!"

[@GrinningAries]

@VollaSmells Man you are a furnace of ambition, major respect on your work, congrats on your award!

[@Lancer873]

Well, he's certainly staying true to his philosophy of using more gun.

[@sendmeplantpics]

I'm so impressed I'm voting for you on both catagories, holy shit. I feel sort of bad now, I've been TF2 for about a year or so and never even SAW this map, hell. I don't even know the name. I really missed out on some beautiful stuff now that I see all these creative videos people make..

[@honorablespartan]

Unusual Level 4 Sentry (level 4 sentry) Effect: Nuts'N'Bolts +9001 damage bonus OP eh? TADAAH: No random crits. There, balanced.

[@MurasakiFujiwara]

Over two years later, this is still really awesome.

[@spicygolf7277]

9 years later this is still awesome

[@ObiTrev]

The Best Set Design Entails that you made the map! I made a Western Themed High Noon Map in 3 DAYS! Never got to post it though, but I sure as hell didn't credit someone else's as my own!

[@MSaint]

There should be a new gamemode where one team tries to get the parts to the Engineer so he creates more deadly robot, and second one tries to prevent it.

[@magmablock]

This has to be made into an official map. I don't care if wasn't meant to be an actual battleground, make it that way.

[@PuppetMasteronVHS]

The violence, the chaos, the explosins, the flames, the robotic inflicted homoscide. It's so beautiful.

[@DarkestDion]

This better not be an update... Pretty awesome. :)

[@0332288]

@anteroXBash you have to make your way up to the bot's head, and climb in when it opens its mouth. There's a dispenser in there (the bot's brain), and you have to destroy the dispenser. This will cause the bot to self destruct. There are platforms along the bot for you to make your way up, although it is in no way easy. The most dramatic way for doing it would be, of course, to use a spy ;)

[@VollaSmells]

@730pm6 I created the original robot in 3 days, it took about 1 week to put together the improved environment and edit the fire particle effects, 2 days investing in a special shaking camera to film with and another day putting the clips together - it got finished on the day of the deadline!

[@VollaSmells]

@V1smar It's one of TF2's start-up musics - the file name is gamestartup10 but it's called 'More Gun'

[@VollaSmells]

@stbeecher Thanks man! I'm glad you enjoyed playing on it!

[@KIgaming.]

Was looking at the new Stanley Parable game, looked up your name and saw Google listing you as having a Saxxy. Had to find which video you made.

[@Pricee123]

if i remember rightly this was the achievment_golden_wrench or something like that, made to farm engie achievments, it was like achievment_all_v4 and you had to climb the robot and destroy the dispenser in it's mouth to defeat it...

[@Locked_looper]

This looks like a really good map to play

[@Tuck213]

@TheFantasticSirGoose Thank you. People call each other 'sir', as to make an attempt to keep the conversation polite and civilized, to avoid turning it into a flamewar.

[@chaingrower]

One of my favorite achievement maps, thank you very much for creating it :D

[@TheDarkOn3]

Those camera movements gave me whiplash

[@xbasz]

I really liked the way camera moved.

[@Kekskuchen666]

Amazing! Can't wait for the improved version of this map to be released!

[@VollaSmells]

@MokoziWorld I appear to have suffered amnesia and can't explain this - BUT HAVE NO FEAR! I wrote a note to myself from the past for just such an occasion! I hid it in a cunning place where no soul would dare to look... IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIDEO!

[@ghostjustin4]

@VollaSmells OH OK! i used to play on that map ALL of the time! actually, i just realized i saw that map up and running before the turn in video date had expired. i decied not to go on it though. so you made it huh? wow. You should turn it into a dedicated server always running!

[@InteractiveBUD]

Wow this is nice! I'm HellJumper btw, so I'm naturally biased because you used the construction pack ;) Good work :D

[@Dipstikk]

Every unappreciated engineer dreams of doing something like this.

[@VollaSmells]

@TheFantasticSirGoose You sure did Calum - you sure did. I'd suggest emailing Valve and asking for a Saxxy for yourself but I don't want to risk that actually working.

[@KaosuVolt]

Ya damn right Volla helped too! I was probably working when you neede that second take as you never contacted me.

[@cool_sword]

One of the few deserving winners of a Saxxy!

[@LuwiigiMaster]

Just keep the Demomen and Soldiers from Rocket jumping into it's mouth to destroy the dispenser powering it. Unless there's a whole Sentry nest inside it guarded by a Pyro.

[@Ishtarru]

I call dibs on playing on that Engineer's team.

[@PuppetMasteronVHS]

It brings a tear to my eye.

[@JayJayKeats]

Congrats on winning, this definitely deserved it.

[@Boomervision]

Great job mate! Coming from a fellow "best set design" nominee. Even if you'll beat me (which I'm pretty sure you will) I'm still happy since you mentioned the construction team. :D

[@PuppetMasteronVHS]

That was so beautful, words can't describe it.

[@0nacious]

Ahahaha, I want to play on this server! THAT SENTRY'S LEVEL IS OVER 9000!!!

[@VollaSmells]

@timerider4 Alrighty! I'll need to fix a few graphical bugs since it wasn't designed to be playable - after tuesday I'll have quite a lot of time on my hands so I'm sure I can patch things up and release a playable version! I'll message you with it once it's out!

[@111urnotme]

they should make this a koth map and have the point right in the middle where players hav to get to without being burned

[@GivemeyourpizzaNOW]

A job well done, heck, it even got you a Saxxy.

[@TheCronkst]

I really like this video. Thank you so much.

[@skootz24]

BEHOLD, THE LEVEL 9042 SENTRY! grats on your win bro.

[@KingNothing125]

Sometimes, you just need a little more gun. And also lasers.

[@sernikb]

this is level NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE sentry !

[@BumNanner451]

Congrats on the Saxxy!

[@manbearpig900]

Shaky cam overload! It's like a TF2 version of the "Bourne Identity."

[@prieresminion]

well, valve did tell what nucleus is all about

[@Twobold]

Level 4 sentry, where is your god now?!?

[@dennisli5274]

Thats why they need a giant spy in MvM...

[@Nicx950]

Sometimes, you just need a HOLY SHIT THAT'S A LOT OF GUN!

[@VollaSmells]

@MrEarcheese Thanks man, it's achievement_golden_wrench_v2

[@VollaSmells]

@ghostjustin4 Sorry, I didn't make it clear in the description - I'm the same guy who made achievement golden wrench. I only had a few days to put it together back when the engineer update was coming out so I cut corners when it came to the visual aspects of the map (blocky landscapes and hardly any detail) so I used the awards as an excuse to expand on the map and make it better looking.

[@Jetamox]

....gentlemen, I believe we have a winner.

[@theultimatebadger97]

Meet the Engineer's new Primary Weapon

[@KaosuHaze]

@vRussianSPY Right, and VollaSmells/William made it and that video as a semi-successful attempt at going viral. He's said this himself, right there in the comments, and if that's not enough I and a bunch of other people can vouch for it.

[@HatJoeMan]

Do you think you could make a version where the ammo/health packs are gone, disable the lockers and remove the dispencers on the original map? I've tried before myself and it disables the music and some textures get messed up. If not i would like some help. And i would definatly give credit to you. Thank you for your time.

[@VollaSmells]

@Pricee123 Yeah, I updated the scenery around the robot so it looked nicer and I also added some more detail to the robot!

[@HiragaSaitoZero]

Bonk Logo Unusuall Seriously O.O ?!

[@Mojave_Rum_EE]

Friggin awesome man!!!

[@zer0prototype5]

LEVEL 5 SENTRY Where is your God now!?!

[@Angellorus]

And the poor spycrab is on fire :3

[@sendmeplantpics]

@VollaSmells Thank you!

[@darkprogram]

Level 666 sentry. OP as hell.

[@Pricee123]

@VollaSmells oh cool:D I loved this map

[@VoltTackleManetric]

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU JUST WON!

[@idelta777]

@VollaSmells this is so sheldon cooper xD

[@YourGameTV_]

0:47 Spycrab! :D

[@MrJoshsupra]

@VollaSmells THAT IS THE BEST REPLY EVER

[@numpadz]

50 people got burned and killed by a giant robot

[@etbadaboum]

Wet dream of all enginneer. And you made it. Thanks.

[@xXStormtrooper117Xx]

Mann vs Machine final boss.

[@Brizen5]

The unusual hat making factory

[@rorshachfan]

What map is that...? I've never ran into these fabled boss maps. Besides the saxton hale ones.

[@howibeatshaqlilbowwowsbasketba]

BEST MOTION SICKNESS

[@TheSaurus64]

You. Dig. Giant robots.

[@Tuck213]

@TheFantasticSirGoose The other comments suggested that I could be right, but YOU sir, proved my point.

[@SandopolisZone]

CONGRATS!!!!!!11 MEET THE MEDIC

[@VollaSmells]

@TheDarkOn3 shit this guy's onto me

[@TheHumbleFellow]

You won! Congrats!

[@Lactosecow]

plz tell me you didnt get a sneek peek of meet the medic... im afraid that is all they were suggesting in thr comic

[@slackingstacker]

Congratulations

[@zuzannahanna]

i love music form TF2

[@LotusEnduroGT]

Welcome to Android He'll.

[@utoober708]

SAXXY, DAMN SPELLCHECK

[@Psychotron7x2]

Keanu Reeves: woah

[@opacopa3585]

amazing intro

[@opacopa3585]

is that why it won?

[@VismarX]

What is the name of this fine tune , good sir?

[@infiniteburgerking]

this is what happens when you farm achievements

[@Nicx950]

@TheFantasticSirGoose I'm the dying heavy!

[@VollaSmells]

@Germanymous Yes but I'm the one who made that map.

[@TheWaInut]

A winner is you

[@cassandra5322]

sentry lvl 9000

[@EternalDensity]

More laser.

[@you238]

What is this, Battlestar Galactica? Keep the camera stable.

[@TheBehattedOne]

Level 4 sentry.

[@matiepie2]

Defeat that boss level lol!

[@Akram59049]

WHY I SEE ----------SLEEP TALKING CAT----- IN MY SUGGESTION VIDEOS ???

[@MurasakiFujiwara]

LEVEL 4 SENTRY

[@Riseofthepoorkids]

gratz

[@iMorands]

@sisisspore u right... thx mate