Valve Source Filmmaker Software Available For Download Later This Year

Written by Brandon Hofer on July 13, 2012

News: Soon, you'll be able to tell your own story utilizing Valve's Source Engine available for download for free this fall via Steam.

The Source Filmmaker (SFM) and ?Meet the Pyro? have recently been revealed by Valve. The SFM is a storytelling tool Valve developed inside the Source Engine to create all its animated short films, including those in the ?Meet the Team? series of Team Fortress 2 shorts. The SFM condenses the production pipeline of an animation studio down onto a single gaming PC. To celebrate the announcement of the SFM, Valve also released the ninth and final short in the ?Meet the Team? series, ?Meet the Pyro.?

"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," said Bay Raitt, designer at Valve. "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."

The SFM is currently in closed beta and will be made available - free of charge - later this year via Steam. Check out ?Meet the Pyro? video below and tell us what you think about this exciting new announcement from Valve.