The Program Valve Forgot About - Source FilmMaker

Is Source FilmMaker still a usable animation program? Is it even worth it to learn it in the first place? In this video I talk about these things and a bit more.

Music:
Day of Defeat Source Main Theme
Swiss Army Man OST - Montage

SFM Videos Credit:

0:15 - Spy's Disguise by Frotress Films
0:20 - Expiration Date by Valve
0:32 - Day of Defeat: Source Trailer by Valve
0:38 - Meet the Medic by Valve
0:50 - Meet the Pyro by Valve
0:58 - Leak! by Erick Wright
1:00 - Turbulence by Dunkle
1:03 - The Fight for Sawmill by Crash Maul
1:05 - Mechanical Mishap by Andy Thybo
1:09 - Story of a Sentry by soimon
1:12 - RED ZONE by Dunkle
1:16 and 2:58 - Rivalry Rush by ItalianNinja
1:24 - Meet the Dumpster Diver by MrPopulous89
1:37 - Medic's Eight - [Episode One] by Hoovy Tube
1:51 - Taunt Fortress 2 by The Winglet
2:02 - Lil Guardian Pyro by Harry101UK
3:03 - GentleBot Hell by MisterMulluc
5:33 - End of The Line by James McVinnie
6:17 - Agent Gunn: Vulkanite by Nonamesleft

Other Videos Credit (Gameplays and such):

3:37 - [Behind the Scenes] How it FEELS to SUFFER in SFM (sp00ky) by LazyPurple
4:08 - The Professional Spy #2 [Ambassador, Dead Ringer, Knife] by MrPaladin

[daedanhadan]

I feel this just aged badly with them releasing SFM 2 currently.

[Yaron]

They didn’t forget, they just inserted SFM into Half Life Alyx, but it’s also in DotA 2.

[ScruffyGamerAnimations]

"Because most of them are related to TF2 anyways"
*Looks at the tens of thousands of cringe 9 year old FNaF/MLP/Splatoon junk on YouTube*

[MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

SFM was the pet project of Bay Raitt, the former WETA workshop animator who came up with the groundbreaking facial capure and rigging system for Gollum and how to do realistic CGI skin. He brought normal mapping, facial animation, audio sourced and phoneme based automatic lip syncing, and many more innovations we take for granted to Valve which influenced all games and real time rendered animation.

Bay Raitt was laid off in the 2013 Purge shortly after SFM launched.

[Isaacfess]

I've tried SFM and I couldn't do it. I liked the freedom of Garry's Mod way better. Nice video BTW.

[drgabi]

They converted SFM to Source 2, so there's that little glimmer of hope
(it's not monumental because Source 2 seems like it has Source 1 running in the background at all time)

[inactivepleasegoaway]

"Valve games always seem to have this thing where no matter how old the game is, the community for it is almost as strong as its been since the games release."
Ricochet would like to have a word with you.

[pauliustau]

sfm was made for porn thats why.end of story.

[AUGUSTIN-MUSIC]

Don’t forget all those God given nostalgic Fnaf and Minecraft animations made with this from our childhood

[FlairTF]

SFM has so much potential! Sadly it is being neglected by Valve (just like TF2), therefore it can be a real pain in the ass to work with!

[TheToasterPope]

with the amount of non-tf2 stuff made on SFM I feel like SFM could possibly outlive tf2

[SandiaMesa]

Awesome video! And actually, open-sourcing SFM would be an excellent idea!

[elijahgames]

finally a SFM video about its future without talking about the "p" word

[lifetrinity]

They should definitely make Source Filmmaker open-source.

[GENIUSGT]

I recently emailed (bugged) some Valve employees and I only got one respond - that it was essentially abandoned. However, I do not know if they also meant SFM2 since that was before it was released but after DOTA2SFM.

[flex]

I dont want make spam of anyone. But some people are very good in this app. Look at animations of fnaf songs. The animation is so beautiful. One example is UNTIL WE MEET COLLAB. That is so epic. I want to begin use sfm because of the animations i have seen.

[sharkbrostarglory]

As a small sfm Trying my hardest (and with a community Bad people in My Community so toxic only the few bad individuals not the entire Community.)
Really pressure people like myself I do love Gmod and sfm but Sfm struggle with Community Probelms makes me wonder What is valve plan anymore some people are a bit or miss and it causes people to give up I wish valve could try more with sfm and I pray u all sfm people get the update u Deserve.

[FridiNaTor]

Valve has been working on a Source 2 version of SFM‚ that's probably why

[karvatonlurku]

I love SFM and it's very fun and challenging making animations. Even tho i am still improving

[sound-wave]

Surkee: SFM is a Easy software

Me: yeah ok