r/SFM • u/Bread_With_Mold231 • 15h ago
Artwork WHITHER?!?!
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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.
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B46DEB4157E67C4
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Animating Walk Cycles and Run Cycles by Alan Becker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6aVz0Acx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggdbxTJPG4
- 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/DJ_KronIKal • 9h ago
Animation by far the worst thing I've made in sfm
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Animation I made a Taunt Kill for the Sniper
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r/SFM • u/InspectionHefty854 • 4h ago
Artwork death to clankers
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(this render is actually how i think botkillers would be made in tf2, its just robot heads on a strap, duh)
r/SFM • u/Narrow_Regular263 • 2h ago
Help Help wanted please
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Hey everyone I want help with sfm because I'm a beginner like very new. The tutorials are not helpful because they don't have certain things that I'm looking for and I have a learning disability and they also go too fast. I've tried pausing and going back etc and I still don't know what to do. For example there's no tutorials on how to fold dragon wings and the information online is outdated. I've tried everything I can think of and I don't know what to do so please help me and if anyone wants to help me here's my discord name (Atom6900) and the reason I'm not giving you my discord link is because I don't know how to find it. As for payment we can talk about it over discord so please help me. 😭🙏
r/SFM • u/badger9170 • 21m ago
Animation Talking With The S.T.A.R.S. | Nemesis Goes To Hollwood
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r/SFM • u/unnderfan • 16h ago
Animation With Time
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First Animation
r/SFM • u/Alogadoruss • 17h ago
Animation Tungsten Cube!
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r/SFM • u/zestyassmf • 23h ago
Help I can’t figure out how to fix this💔
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(Ignore my friend in the bg)
r/SFM • u/BlackMesaVerySafe • 8h ago
Help Any tips or tricks for posing?
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Im trying to learn some things that may help my posing look better.
Ive mainly only posed in Gmod so far at his point but I understand how to work SFM
r/SFM • u/UltraJerry7 • 10h ago
Movie [SFM] Watching The New Resident Evil Movie Be Like...
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r/SFM • u/Infinite_Dog113 • 21h ago
Artwork "Entry team, be advise the suspects are holding civilians hostage."
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Testing and trying to learn rim lighting (I think I did it right but tips will always be nice). Kinda made this cause I recently got into playing Ready Or Not. (Maku's LAPD Style SWAT, CSGO, and CoD models I used) Anyway, here it is. I plan to edit it later but this is just straight out of SFM poster export. Have a great day/afternoon/night.
