#Source filmmaker for beginners how to#

Basically if you know body language you know how to pose and animate your characters with ease. This subject is the most important since it teaches you how to pose and animate your characters according with their feelings (A frightened character shaking all over is an example of body language). If you work with theater projects, or dancing, or anything that involves expressing gestures/poses and feelings, you'll have preliminary knowledge to Body Language.

Physics: Cinematics, Dynamics, and Statics are three essential branches of Physics that should very helpful for you to understand how to animate things more organically (making a ball realistically bounce on the floor for example).

It's not mandatory, but having great knowledge on the subject can make your work a lot easier when animating (I don't know a lot about Functions myself, I'm not good with math). Math: Functions is a highly essential Math branch for animating. There are three subjects that should come useful for 3D animation: What do I need to know before getting into 3D animation? So I thought about sharing some information in this thread about performing SFM animations with ease to the community, mostly for whoever is interested in getting into 3D animation. It's a fun software to work with, and once you get used with the interface and learn how to animate the only limit for creative ideas will be your own mind. I know some friends from KYM that use SFM to make animations and posters, and we occasionally discuss some ideas for projects and other things. It is powered by Source Engine and you can integrate any Source Engine game with the software for a greater diversity of content for your animations and posters, making SFM a very powerful animation software. Source Filmmaker is a 3D animation software developed by Valve.

Source filmmaker for beginners