Source Filmmaker on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.

Source Filmmaker is a animation & modeling, free to play and video production game developed and published by Valve.
Released on July 10th 2012 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 40,205 reviews of which 37,375 were positive and 2,830 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Source Filmmaker into these genres:

Animation & Modeling Free to Play Video Production Software Movie Difficult Sandbox Funny Comedy Singleplayer Moddable Character Customization Memes Survival Horror Games Workshop 3D Anime Great Soundtrack Souls-like Family Friendly

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 / Vista (Windows 7 64 bit suggested)
Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Memory: 2GB (4 GB suggested)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 200 series card or better, or AMD Radeon 3000 series or better (NVIDIA GeForce 400 series or AMD Radeon 5000 series preferred)
Monitor: 1366 x 768 (1920 x 1080 suggested)
Hard Drive: At least 15 GB of Space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible USB headset with mic (suggested)

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2017

Here are the steps for source film maker 1. Download it 2. Get hyped thinking I can make an actual good video 3. Watch a tutorial of some british guy going through sh*t to fast 4. Stop watching the video after one minute and think that your a pro 5. Try to spawn in a character 6. Freakout cuz you did something wrong 7. Ask a good pal to help you 8. he ignores you 9. delete the program 10. repeat all steps

Feb. 2017

If you wanted to start 3D animating, but is too lazy to be using Blender or MAYA. Use this, but take my advice. Try Poster-Making before Animating.

Feb. 2017

It's a little confusing at first, but it's like riding a bike: once you get the hang of it, it quickly becomes fun. Posing and animating is inherently better than Gmod( I still like Gmod though). SFM gives you better precision in making things do what you want. With a little patience, you can make awesome animations and images. If you can imagine it, chances are you can do it in SFM. There's a con, though: Maps and models: not enough. The selection of maps and models are tiny compared to Gmod. On the subject on Gmod, with a little work you can import Gmod models into SFM and they work fairly well when you just focus on posing. Animating, though, is a different story. It requires more work to make it animate correctly compared to the models specifically designed for SFM.

Jan. 2017

It's an alright program. I've been using it for almost 4 years, so I guess that's worth something. It's extremely complicated and hard to get used to, but that's to be expected from animation software. Just don't start making TF2 Scout fanart and posting it on deviantART when you learn it.

Jan. 2017

Very versatile, and relatively user-friendly. Tons of people out there too, making lots of stuff for it.

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Free to play

9.1

37,375

2,830

Online players

1,146

Developer

Valve

Publisher

Valve

Release 10 Jul 2012

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