Friday 28 September 2012

Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmaker (SFM) is used in-house to make cut scenes for Valve games. This was released to the public a couple of months ago, free of charge and it has set YouTube on fire!

It really is a very nice piece of software allowing animators and amateurs alike to product some very interesting films. If a producer uses their own props and assets they can even sell their films!

Your's truly managed to get Beta access and I made a very short, short. I have seen another video pay tribute to God awful film: The Room, their results were much finer than mine!



SFM works like this:
  • Create a scene
  • add actors / props
  • manipulate the timeline with animation and audio of props
  • add more scenes
  • repeat until done
Of course, this is a greatly simplified explanation of the process. I think you would need to write a book to cover everything.

What I find rather cool is that people are using Xbox Kinect to record their movements and then parsing this data into SFM to produces some rather stupendous results.



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