Make Your Own Animated Movies with Source Filmmaker

The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is a software moviemaking tool built by Valve – the video game makers of Portal & Portal 2, Team Fortress 2 and “Meet the…??? short films.  SFM gives users the ability to make animated movies by repurposing the video game world (the base game assets from Team Fortress 2 and “Meet the Team??? short films) into a virtual movie studio.


This is not for the novice user – but if you have experience in video editing and/or 3D animation you will hit the ground running with this incredible tool.  There’s a Youtube channel full of tutorials that can be found here.  Oh… did I mention that it’s FREE!  All you need is a Steam account (also free) – then you can download SFM here.

Check out their introduction video that will explain it all (below):

 


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