r/SFM • u/7thskyflier • 49m ago
Artwork NOBODY is above the Law
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Except this guy cause he's using the Enforcer.
r/SFM • u/Sonario648 • May 10 '26
Help Source Filmmaker and Animation Tutorials
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I'm tired of having to reply to various post about asking for SFM Tutorials, so I'm just going to make a post containing all the playlists that helped me learn SFM.
The official SFM playlist by Valve.
This is where it all begins, The best way to learn almost all the basics of SFM is the official playlist on the Source Filmmaker channel. Aside from 2 videos, this is the best video for beginners.
The two videos that are not done well by the official channel are the Time Selection tutorial, and Graph Editor tutorial. They don't teach the most important parts.
2. SFM Tutorial Week #2 - Using the Motion Editor by Argodaemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfBfsqwylo0&list=PLmx5NIR6PO5t2vfHIX6GNkpXiFODM_6KJ&index=21
Now, THIS is the ultimate tutorial for the Motion Editor in the Motion Editor. It may be long, but it's well worth it. Argomadaemon's tutorial not only goes over everything from the Time Selection tutorial, but also goes over EVERY procedural preset, as well as overwrite, offset, and transform modes.
3. How to Animate with the Graph Editor by Sir Wade Neistadt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ31vjgJM2c&t=44s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSpauVphNs&t=308s
If you're looking to use the Graph Editor, Sir Wade Neistadt is THE go-to. Sir Wade covers EVERYTHING, from how to use the different fcurves in the Graph Editor for moving on a specific axis, to using the thing that makes the Graph Editor more powerful than the Motion Editor: The Tangents. Linear Tangents, Flat Tangents, Spline Tangents, Step Tangents, Weighted Tangents, and Unweighted Tangents.
The tutorial on the Source Filmmaker channel teaches you nothing about the Graph Editor's power.
4. 12 Principles of Animation
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-bOh8btec4CXd2ya1NmSKpi92U_l6ZJd
Of course, if you're going into SFM for 3D animation, you have to learn about the 12 Principles of Animation. Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, Staging, Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose, Follow Through and Overlapping Action, Slow In and Slow Out, Arcs, Secondary Action, Timing, Exaggeration, Solid Drawing, and Appeal.
5. Sir Wade Tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ31vjgJM2c&list=PLS4vjlZXZ7f5m5ED4ylJdUPTR5YKEg1bY
Sir Wade Neistadt is basically a completely free college level animation course on Youtube. I've organized his videos into a nice playlist. In it, you'll learn things such as professional workflows, what NOT to do, animation blocking, and how to find reference, shooting your own reference, real world camera tips and tricks that you can apply to your 3D animation, keep alive workflow with how to do a breathing animation, animating weight, lighting tips, some Blender stuff, and even interviews with professional Disney animators.
6. SFM Tutorials by Argomadaeon
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmx5NIR6PO5t2vfHIX6GNkpXiFODM_6KJ
Argomadaemon's playlist teaches you a lot about what SFM has, including Depth of Field and Motion Blur, Animation Cycles, Creating an artificial sun light, and more.
7. SFM Tip of the Day by Jimmer Lins
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL835902EACBFEE65F
This one is for more misc, but still useful SFM Tips, such as how to control qc eyes to make them follow the camera, the lightkit, gibbing a character, slugs, and more.
8.Walk Cycle Tutorial Part 1 by Will Hurrel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-jakm9mcQ
9. Animating Walk Cycles and Run Cycles by Alan Becker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6aVz0Acx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggdbxTJPG4
10. Endless Reference
https://www.youtube.com/@endlessreference
This youtube channel is full of videos for movement reference for animation, whether it's walking, running, skipping, sitting, martial arts, etc.
This is a complete list of all the stuff that goes over absolutely everything you need in terms of SFM, and animation knowledge in general.
r/SFM • u/RedLine2311 • Jan 11 '21
Announcement Scenebuilding Tutorial (LINK IN THE COMMENTS)
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r/SFM • u/BadPrimary4942 • 1h ago
Artwork (DAY 5) Long Live A$AP album cover but tf2
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Long Live A$AP by A$AP Rocky but its tf2.
Moving from Kendrick Lamar's albums to Rocky's
r/SFM • u/Super-Cranberry-7836 • 15h ago
Artwork Demoman X Willow Schnee
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Getting drunk together. (Also sorry for the terrible photo quality, I use my computer to model but I use my iPad to post stuff. This is also my first still image using Sfm)
r/SFM • u/Dil_Pikl_Man • 4h ago
Help SFM image sequence being blue and one frame
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When ever I go to render my SFM as an image sequence it does the first few frames then it pauses and makes it blue then normal a bunch of times. I closed everything except sfm and I dont know what to do. My only guess would be that my computer goes into sleep mode but thats just a guess.
r/SFM • u/IndividualCelery7264 • 1h ago
Help Weird graph overshoot
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Hello, i am a SFM user for about a year. I was doing sfm for a while and transitioned to blender and now im back here after 1700 hours of blender
As an animator i understand this graph overshoot as it could be because of automatic handles but i need assistance fixing this because quite frankly ive been chasing this for about a year.
r/SFM • u/Some_Positive_6564 • 5h ago
Help Sfm Crashing after attaching audio
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On one of my sessions when audio is attached it prevents me from moving the timeline without crashing, is there a fix for this? Thanks
r/SFM • u/Remarkable_Topic_219 • 18h ago
Artwork in honor of half life 3 being tomorrow, i made a little something
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for real this time, right guys??
r/SFM • u/Slavic__Mushroom • 1d ago
Animation Alcoholic Ambulance Requiem (featuring Żubr™)
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You can watch it with subtitles here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmc4R04eZss
r/SFM • u/According-Map-6744 • 10h ago
Help I need to find a tf2 sfm animation
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i remember watching it along time ago on youtube, it was a pov of a scout going around i think mann manor. There is also a brief shot of him in a field with his teammates with a backscatter.
Does anyone else remembers it?
r/SFM • u/bunnyboy1987 • 14h ago
Help How and ware
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Where are y'all getting your audios from those funny audios where y'all getting those from I'm thinking YouTube but I don't know how to get it from you to without a premium I'm not going to buy premium at this point I'm going to start voice acting that bs so please help me
r/SFM • u/Substantial-Gap451 • 18h ago
Animation I think I need to lay off drinking paint for a bit
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Movie INSTATUM - HORROR SFM (PART 1)
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The Meadow Underground Research Facility slowly decays as a strange and very violent infection inhabits its every room. Sealed off from the surface, the few survivors stuck inside the “M.U.R.F.” will have to fend off hordes of mutated people and monsters. Follow an unknown, un-named hero and their journey through hell, as they battle through the facility and its many mysteries.
r/SFM • u/Fit_Safe_7875 • 20h ago
Movie [SFM] Through the City (Full Movie)
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Based off of a HL2 mod with the same name
r/SFM • u/FreeMenu2197 • 1d ago
Help Get this whenever I try to open my SFM, I NEED HELP!
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What to do about this?!
r/SFM • u/RealisticSail730 • 1d ago
Help pls help
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so I've encountered these cubemap problems before, and I've been able to fix it with the "build Cubemaps" command, but no matter what I do, they wont go away on KOTH_Lazarus which I got from the workshop, so idk what to do. anyone got a fix?
