It was an all-hands-on-deck effort, with people from multiple facets of the content department coming together.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez, for example, mostly works on the back end of Chargers.com, but was a key piece on helping build sets for the video.<\/p>\n
While one person worked on a set, someone else would come in and decorate it while a different person made custom skins.<\/p>\n
Once a location was built, people then had to essentially film different scenes before everything was edited together for Wednesday’s 5 p.m. (PT) drop.<\/p>\n
And while the endeavor was certainly a group effort, many involved gave Pelletier a special shoutout for his tireless work.<\/p>\n
“He has infinite knowledge, has been playing it forever and is a fan of the genre,” Bretto said. “He just has a genuine love for the characters and really wanted to do right by them.<\/p>\n
“He kept us in a good place with Minecraft lore. And then we were able to sprinkle in NFL storylines,” Bretto added.<\/p>\n
Julian said: “Bailey was really instrumental \u2026 we ‘d come up with an idea and he’d run down how we could possibly do it in Minecraft.”<\/p>\n
Hahn added: “This would not have been possible without Bailey. He was behind the scenes and making everything possible by expending the game’s horizons.”<\/p>\n
Overall, many people associated the project to essentially being a movie production.<\/p>\n
“It was more of a film-making animation process than a video game,” Bretto said. “It was approached about making an animation that just happened to be in the constraints of Minecraft.”<\/p>\n
Just how much effort went into creating the video?<\/p>\n
All in all, the group of six builders spent more than 500 hours on the video.<\/p>\n
They also created 15,000 villagers that were mostly used in the Colts portion of the video with the car race.<\/p>\n
Pelletier said the entire landscape spanned more than 48 million blocks.<\/p>\n
“That’s a pretty large area to cover,” Pelletier said. “That area held all of our sets or locations or buildings.”<\/p>\n
Hahn added: “If anybody thinks this was a fun time where we were playing video games, it wasn’t. It was fun, don’t get me wrong, but we were building sets.”<\/p>\n
And that data doesn’t include the hours spent in writers’ room meetings where people toss around which jokes to use and how they can be implemented in the video.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind, an easter egg that lands in February or March might not be relevant by the time the schedule comes out in mid-May.<\/p>\n
Bretto said some of the end credit scenes were completed on Monday, less than 48 hours before the video dropped.<\/p>\n
And the final version was exported around 4 p.m., an hour before the video went live.<\/p>\n
“We could have done it earlier but you’re always making minor tweaks to polish it up,” Bretto said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an all-hands-on-deck effort, with people from multiple facets of the content department coming together. Gonzalez, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-62686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-homepage-cp","12":"tag-homepage-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleschargers","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114535418175562057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}