Valve to Release Source Filmmaker Later This Year
Valve has confirmed its Source Filmmaker tool will be available for free later this year.
Source Filmmaker is used by Valve to create all its animated short films, including the Meet the Team series for Team Fortress 2.
Bay Raitt, designer at Valve said:
The goal of the SFM was to develop a story telling tool that allowed us to create computer animated movies more efficiently, and with greater creative freedom. Over the past five years, we’ve produced more than 50 animated shorts with the SFM. The Source Filmmaker will allow our community to create their own movies in Team Fortress 2 and in their own Source SDK-created mods.
A closed beta is already underway and as mentioned above, the tool will be made available for free later this year.
To celebrate the news Valve has released the ninth and final short in the Meet the Team series, Meet the Pyro.
For more information about the Source Filmmaker visit www.sourcefilmmaker.com
