Source Filmmaker

Valve / Jul 10, 2012 / Animation & Modeling, Video Production

windows
Steam Deck Playable

1,154 playing now

That's more people than live in Vatican City.

The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa.

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What's new

GS: GO -- Making the Short

2012-08-23

Now that the official CS:GO trailer's shipped, we put together a little "Making Of" featurette for anybody interested in all of the different elements that need to come together to get an SFM project out the door here at Valve. Enjoy!

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What players say

Very Positive

93% positive, 29,751 reviews

Recommended249 hrs played

Major exports of the SFM community include the following: - some of the craziest, well written, decent-quality mini-movies that could genuinely compete with many major animated movies from the late 2000s / early 2010s - actual video game cinematics / cutscenes - fnaf porn Source Filmmaker no longer receives official updates and is mostly outdated. But it's still free, still around, is pretty flexible, compatible...

37 found this helpful, 2026-07-18

Recommended39 hrs played

I tried doing a commission and the game crashed so many times I considered either taking up day-drinking as a hobby or killing myself right there and then. 10/10 would use again.

32 found this helpful, 2026-07-10

Recommended389 hrs played

This thing has caused immense pain, stress and frustration. It made me question my sanity every single day. It has a mind of its own. Pretty sure it hisses at me sometimes. 10/10 would recommend!

26 found this helpful, 2025-12-09

Recommended2 hrs played

its as simple as one two.. uh I dunno I forgot.. its good though! and no this is not helpful!