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Source Filmmaker
Software Cover - Source Filmmaker.jpg
Screenshot of Source Filmmaker application.
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Valve Corporation
Release date(s)
Jul 11, 2012
Platform(s)
Steam AppID
Written in
Mod support
Distribution
Steam
Official website
Official Website (no longer updated)

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Source Filmmaker Source Filmmaker is a powerful engine tool, running on the Alien Swarm engine branch of Source to create a flexible, modifiable 3D recording that can be exported as a movie or as a still image. The 3D recording you create in SFM can contain recorded gameplay, objects, cameras, lights, particles, animations, effects, and sounds—and the motion information for how each element changes over time.

With Source Filmmaker, you can essentially film "on location" in your favorite Team Fortress 2 map whether it's one that Valve released or one that you modded yourself. You can use SFM's large library of maps, models, animations, objects, sounds, and effects, or you can import your own from the Steam Workshop. Because you're working with a virtual world, and your recording stores all the 3D motion data about every element, you can modify any aspect of the recording at any time, which makes it easy to make the kinds of last-minute changes that would be extremely expensive in a live-action studio.

The Source Filmmaker Workshop is bigger than ever with over 16.000 items to download! So now, even if you aren't a professional when it comes to 3D modeling, you can still make animated shorts with the graph or motion editor. Valve has also released many "content packs" for Source Filmmaker that allow users to utilize assets from other Source games easier.

Source Filmmaker is the movie-making tool built and used by Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. By using the hardware rendering of a modern PC gaming machine, SFM allows storytellers to work in a "what you see is what you get" environment so that they can iterate in the context of what it will feel like for the final audience.

There is a caveat, though: despite the deceptively simple-looking UI, Source Filmmaker is a very powerful and complex tool without a lot of safeguards. Think of it like a tractor: it doesn't have handrails or a lot of padding like you might find in a normal app or game. We recommend that you watch the video tutorials first and then read the documentation to familiarize yourself with the tool as much as possible before you dive in.

There are two distinct releases of SFM:

Source Filmmaker
The original version of SFM, running on the Alien Swarm engine branch of Source, with Team Fortress 2 content included. This version can be downloaded on Steam.
Source 2 Filmmaker
The Source 2 version of SFM, it is only obtainable in:
Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, Half-Life: Alyx and SteamVR Home Workshop Tools.

History

Source Filmmaker Source Filmmaker was mistakenly released in 2007 during Team Fortress 2 beta prior to the game being released with the SFM tools completely removed (or disabled). Due to it's popularity and people using pirated version of TF2 Beta (which was outdated) to access SFM, Valve planned to publicly make SFM available to all users. In 2012, Source Filmmaker was later officially released for free, which now runs on Alien Swarm engine branch engine branch, and the tools UI are now rendered using Qt instead of VGUI.

In 2015, with the Dota 2 Reborn update currently in Beta. Dota 2 engine was updated to the Source 2 engine, Source 2 Filmmaker was later made available.

Official Valve Shorts

Source Filmmaker for Source

Title Date Featured Game Notes
YouTube logo Day Of Defeat: Prelude To Victory (SFM Post) 2005-12-09 Day of Defeat: Source SFM Team / Valve Corporation, published 23 May 2013, retrieved 28 May 2013.
YouTube logo Meet The Heavy 2007-05-14 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 5 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet The Soldier 2007-08-22 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Engineer 2007-09-11 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Demoman 2007-10-09 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet The Scout 2008-04-19 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Sandvich 2008-08-19 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, published 19 January 2009, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Sniper 2008-06-07 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Left 4 Dead Intro Clip 2008-11-02 Left 4 Dead Valve Corporation, published 2 November 2008, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Spy 2009-05-18 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Left 4 Dead 2 Teaser Trailer 2009-06-01 Left 4 Dead 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Left 4 Dead 2 Batter Up 2009-10-28 Left 4 Dead 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer - Zombie Survival Guide 2009-11-17 Left 4 Dead 2 Leaked Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer, later used as in-game Intro, with minor changes.
YouTube logo Half-Life 2 on OS X - Free Yourself 2010-05-26 Half-Life 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 20 December 2012. A parody of the 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial.
YouTube logo Portal 2 - Full Co-op Trailer 2010-09-10 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Portal 2 Co-op Intro trailer 2011-02-18 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 18 February 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Portal 2 TV Spot 2011-03-18 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 18 March 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Aperture Investment Opportunity #1: "Panel" 2011-03-24 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 24 March 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Aperture Investment Opportunity #2: "Bot Trust" 2011-03-28 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 28 March 2011,|retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Aperture Investment Opportunity #3: "Turrets" 2011-04-05 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 5 April 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Aperture Investment Opportunity #4: "Boots" 2011-04-12 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 12 April 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
Portal 2 ending cutscenes 2011-04-19 Portal 2 Turret Opera, Wheatley epilogue, and Co-op ending.
YouTube logo Portal 2: Perfect 10 2011-04-29 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 29 April 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet the Medic 2011-06-23 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Dota 2 Gamescom Trailer 2011-08-15 Dota 2 Valve Corporation, published 15 August 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Portal 2 Peer Review DLC "Art Therapy" ending video 2011-10-04 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 2 March 2012, retrieved 19 June 2014.
YouTube logo Wheatley's Nomination Speech for the VGA Best Character Award 2011-12-20 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 20 December 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Wheatley's Acceptance Speech for the VGA Best Character Award 2011-12-20 Portal 2 Valve Corporation, published 20 December 2011, retrieved 6 January 2013.
YouTube logo Meet The Pyro 2012-06-27 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, published 27 June 2012, retrieved 24 November 2012.
YouTube logo Mann vs. Machine Trailer 2012-08-13 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, published 13 August 2012, retrieved 24 November 2012.
YouTube logo Dota 2: Diretide 2012-10-30 Dota 2 Valve Corporation, published 30 October 2012, retrieved 30 October 2012.
YouTube logo Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Trailer 2012-08-17 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Valve Corporation, retrieved 18 November 2012, published 17 August 2012.
YouTube logo The Second Annual Saxxy Awards are HERE! (Almost) 2012-11-28 Team Fortress 2 Valve Corporation, published 28 November 2012, retrieved 31 January 2013.
YouTube logo Dota 2 - The Greeviling 2012-12-19 Dota 2 published 19 December 2012, retrieved 19 December 2012.
YouTube logo Mann vs. Machine: The Sound of Medicine 2013-11-21 Team Fortress 2 published 21 November 2013. retrieved 28 December 2013.
YouTube logo Expiration Date 2014-06-17 Team Fortress 2
YouTube logo Jungle Inferno 2017-10-16 Team Fortress 2
YouTube logo CS:GO - Operation Broken Fang 2020-12-03 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Source Filmmaker for Source 2 (S2FM)

Todo: List the footage that might be made with S2FM here.

Valve-sponsored Shorts

Title Date Game Notes
Robotic Boogaloo 2013-05-17 Team Fortress 2 The Robotic Boogaloo update to Team Fortress 2 was the first ever 100% community-created update for the game. The video is credited to the writer The Heartsman and the animator MrPopulus89. The video was then featured by Valve on TeamFortress.com for the update's main page.
End Of The Line 2014-12-08 Team Fortress 2 While End Of the Line was made by Violet McVinnie and her team. Valve took interest in the project after a short trailer uploaded on 28. August 2013 and allowed McVinnie to make a community update centered around the video. The video itself was directed by McVinnie and features animation by Luke "Walker" Murray.
Invasion 2015-10-06 Team Fortress 2 The Invasion Update for Team Fortress 2 was released on 6. October 2015, as the third 100% community-created update for the game. It features a Source Filmmaker video animated by Brent "CobaltGemini" Kennedy and Harry Callaghan (who also did post-production work and sound design), produced by Jayson "The Ronin" De Castro, and features original voice work by Cameron Nichols and Sandra Espinoza.

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