Create Your Own Animated Shorts With Valve
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here's a couple videos made with the old source film maker:
Notice the fluid movements!!!
Notice the fluid movements!!!
The program was released with the beta, but locked away. Someone just found it then enabled the content that was already on there. I don't know if that's pirating...Deathleaper said:
So basically, we're going to get stuff like this:
Only they'll actually look like something from the "Meet the" vids.
I can't wait. XD
Only they'll actually look like something from the "Meet the" vids.
I can't wait. XD
Dunno, it's one of those gray areas of the internet. The beta was free, but torrenting it is the only way to obtain it now...hmmmm.Deathleaper said:
Capcha: words of wisdom.
indeed, capcha, indeed
The pyro video was fantastic, and the source filmmaker looks like a lot of fun, i personally don't have a lot of experience animating so it looks pretty appealing
I can't wait to get my hands on this. Proper choreographed in-game battle sequences? Custom animation? Gimme gimme.
Maybe I should have explained, then, yeah. I just didn't have access to Steam that day.Squilookle said:OK, so... not really that much then, right?redisforever said:
Except that that's not true at all.Andy of Comix Inc said:
In fact, a professional film making studio has already licensed this technology for use in their next animated film.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/director-shane-acker-9-irelands-brown-bag-films-producer-gregory-r-little-and-author-j-barton-mitchell-launch-animated-undersea-adventure-film-deep-2012-06-08
Ergo, this Source Filmmmaker toolset is most assuredly NOT just for hobbyist.
What the Source Filmmaker does is allow you to render, animate, capture, and edit your animatics in real time.aba1 said:
Most other render software requires you to predetermine the animation paths before hand and then wait while it renders and compiles the video. If the final product isn't what you like, you have to go back and start the whole process over and "reshoot" the whole thing.
With the Source Filmmaker toolset, you can stop the animatic in mid playback, go in and change anything and everything (from the camera angle, lighting, animation paths, even model renders, etc), and start the playback from any point; without having to retool or reshoot anything prior or after your edit point.
This is because everything is rendered in engine, in real time, and on a single machine using consumer grade gaming tech. Something, as far as I'm aware, no other render studio does. At least, to this degree. (and without costing an absurd amount of money to use and requiring a battery of supercomputers to render)
Hoooolly crap.Vigormortis said:
I stand corrected... and pleasantly surprised. Dear god. That's kind of really, really awesome. I actually was listening to a podcast earlier where they were discussing that this wouldn't appeal to hobbyists as much as professionals, so my jumping the gun has proved wrong. I'm GLAD it has though. Wow. Just wow.
I cannot wait to see if this is a game-changer. All the pins are certainly set up for it. It's up to the end-users to knock it down, I guess! Can. Not. Wait.
Well, it remains to be seen if this new film, "Deep", is actually any good. Even though I somewhat enjoyed "9", it wasn't that great of a film. So we'll have to wait and see what kind of quality product comes out of their current effort.Andy of Comix Inc said:
Maybe it'll be great. Maybe it'll be dreck. Who can say? I can't. All I can say for sure is, I'm glad the film industry is finally starting to take notice of the advances in technology and story-telling techniques being spear-headed by the gaming industry. It's good to see that at least some studios are catching up to the present.
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Captcha: Like the Dickens
S'a bit presumptuous of you, Captcha. Comparing todays filmmakers to Charles Dickens...
LOL@ valve fanboyism at its finest.
Getting excited like this is some sort of revelation when A: it has long been available. B: you could do similar things with Bethesda or Biowares toolkits and C not have it be quite as limited in scope. (remember, while a movie studio might have licensed this other organizations tried it and found it completely insufficient)
I really think valve has ceased to be a gaming company and has instead became a cult.
Getting excited like this is some sort of revelation when A: it has long been available. B: you could do similar things with Bethesda or Biowares toolkits and C not have it be quite as limited in scope. (remember, while a movie studio might have licensed this other organizations tried it and found it completely insufficient)
I really think valve has ceased to be a gaming company and has instead became a cult.
Both Bethesda's Creation Kit, as well as Bioware's tool kit for Dragon Age, esentially consist of a map editor, and a character creator, both of which are things that Valve have made available long ago, in the form of Hammer and XSI, and none of which is a dedicated machinima-making tool, like the Source Filmmaker.viranimus said:
First off I'm gonna go ahead and say oh dear god that meet video was kind of horrifying
Also this filmaker malarky does look pretty cool...I have no talent here but it might well replace the classic gmod videos with something a bit higher quality.
Although I do love gmod.
Also this filmaker malarky does look pretty cool...I have no talent here but it might well replace the classic gmod videos with something a bit higher quality.
Although I do love gmod.
All I need now is a good computer.
Mine can barely run TF2 on lowest settings so I wonder what this would do to it.
>.>
Anyway, I've always wanted to get into the animation thing. This just might be my start. :3
Mine can barely run TF2 on lowest settings so I wonder what this would do to it.
>.>
Anyway, I've always wanted to get into the animation thing. This just might be my start. :3