Talk about audio. Obviously, the audio folks play a big role in the ship's personality and identity. [What other teams are involved?]
TL;DRBeyond audio, ships involve VFX, lighting, QA, platform and website teams, marketing and production, with barely any team that the vehicle team doesn't work with eventually.
VFX, huge as well, because it gives the ambient effects and everything. We get help from the lighting team as well, so that they do some standardization so that we get better-feeling headlights and the intensities of them. We recently had a massive pass from them, so they set new standards to make sure that we had a nice consistency amongst all the headlights. But there's barely any teams that we don't work with one way or another eventually.
Even once the vehicle is done, ready for release, then there's all the teams that deal with actually getting it out the door. So there's the platform teams, the website teams, QA.
An inordinate amount of QA time gets spent on them, because at the end of the day, when it goes out, people start using them, they want them to be in the best state that we can get them. So trying to find all the issues and bugs and resolve them and get them just to be as good as possible for the release.
My favourite team is the marketing team, because they take our stuff and they just make it really, really pretty. You give it to them and you're not quite sure what you're going to get back in the trailer, and then you kind of get the initial cut and you're like, okay.
We also got to shout out production, because they're the ones that make all of these teams work together. And quite often, because they're not actually clicking a button and moving stuff around in the editor, they kind of get maybe forgotten about. But yeah, they're a massive part of it as well, making sure that all works together.