Now Accepting Submissions for the Saxxy Awards!
The submission period for the 2013 Saxxy Awards is now open! We encourage you to submit an early version before submitting the final version prior to the deadline a week from now, just in case. Also,...
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Make Voting History!
The Oscars sputtered out after only two years, the Grammys are of course fictional, and the Stanley Cup has yet to be awarded to anybody. That means that with the Third Annual Saxxy Awards, we will...
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The 2013 Saxxy Award Nominees Have Been Announced!
Wow. Just wow. Once again, we're just amazed at the quality of this year's entries to the Saxxy Awards. We laughed, we cried, we were hanging off the edge of our seats, and now we're ready to show you...
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The Winners for the Third Annual Saxxy Awards are Announced!
In addition to watching all the great submissions to the Third Annual Saxxy Awards, we also really enjoy the heated discussions and accolades. Although with everything coming to a close, we're...
View ArticleChristmas Is A Little Early This Year
Now that we've been able to take a little breather after the Saxxy's, we've finally found time for a couple updates that have been commonly requested. First off - the SFM now supports scaling models...
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The Fourth Annual Saxxy Awards!
We were sitting around reminiscing about our favorite SFM videos, when we realized it's time to start this year's Saxxy Awards! We're still reeling from the great videos from last year, and are...
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They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamberrrr.
Ten years ago, a group of ambitious and talented volunteers decided to recreate and reimagine the original Half Life on the (at the time) brand new Source game engine. Two years ago, they released the...
View ArticleHow to make a Movie
Greets Beta Testers, Since we gave out a few beta keys today, here's some video tutorials to get you started in the Source Filmmaker. Try to re-create the movie that I make in the tutorials. This will...
View ArticleIntroducing the Source Filmmaker
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...
View ArticleYou Guys Have Been Busy
In just a single week since the start of our beta program, there've been plenty of hilariously inventive "Meet the Heavy" spoofs getting passed around here in the SFM office. Here are some of our...
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The Source Filmmaker is LIVE!
Thanks for your patience, everybody! And a really big thanks to our first round of testers, who were instrumental in helping us make the SFM a better user experience. They were SO helpful, in fact,...
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Sharing the Knowledge
Hey Everyone, We've been amazed this week by all the cool short movies and images everyone has been creating as they come up to speed using the Source Filmmaker. Wow. Here are a few, among many, that...
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L4D Survivor Model Pack
To celebrate today's Left 4 Dead 2 update, Cold Stream, we're going to update the SFM to include a new "Model Pack" that contains the four survivors from L4D2. These are the models that we used to...
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Things Keep Getting Better
This was an inspiring week for the SFM. To start, the first community-created video has received 1 million views . Who would have thought so many people would like saving .dmx files? We've also never...
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I am a Robot
Now that there is a new robot on mars, it seems like a good time for SFM beta testers to dress up a TF character like a robot using a cardboard box. To celebrate the Curiosity's great achievement,...
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Mann vs. Machine
Check out our latest Valve short made using the Source Filmmaker. Learn more here!
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Valve on Spike TV tonight
GT.TV will be devoting their show to Valve tonight on Spike TV. If you want a sneak peek behind the scenes of what we're up to with the SFM next, come check it out! (if you're too busy fighting...
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The 2012 Saxxy Awards
As you may have seen on TV last night, The Second Annual Saxxy's Awards have been announced. It's time to get your storytelling chops in order, because the Source Filmmaker Animation Festival is on!
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CS: GO -- Making the Short
Now that the official CS:GO trailer's shipped, we put together a little "Making Of" featurette for anybody interested in all of the different elements that need to come together to get an SFM project...
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