Meet The Pyro Released, Source Filmmaker Beta Sign Up Begun

[ad_hominem]

After literally years of anticipation, the final video in Team Fortress 2's excellent 'Meet The Team' series has been released. Alongside it, Valve have announced that their internal video creation software (used for the Meet The... videos, as well as basically all their marketing and cutscenes for the past few years) is to be released publicly.

There's a decent look at the software being released over at the official site for Source Filmmaker, where you can also sign up for the beta, and read more about what exactly we can expect when it does release.

[MaK]

The source filmmaker interests me way more than meet the pyro. Either way, fantastic job valve. Adding models and editing animation directly in game is really cool. And the fact that they're giving us the source to meet the heavy, awesomeness.

[jangalomph]

That video was absoloutely hilarious.

[Epifire]

Meet the Pyro!! I will rejoice now for three straight days.

Best part ever is you know a lot of that joke was directed towards Gabe, especially after seeing the pink pony. I bet he never hears the end of it.

[Mephasto]

Man, was that awesome

There is no cow level.

[darkpivot]

God I want Source Filmmaker. The first beta keys have already been sent, I didn't get it. I just watched the entire 11 part tutorial they uploaded on it, so I'm already prepared to jump in!

[Captain Terror]

god i miss playing the pyro and hearing the sweet ding-ding-ding of people burning.. Source Filmaker looks great, and love the film =)

[darkpivot]

Oh yes, I got a mw2 hitsound for tf2 and it is sooo satisfying.

[pk_hunter]

A million boners, Valve. A million boners.

[Kosire]

[darkpivot]

AAAAAAA I hate all of you.

[ScarT]

Who cares it'll be released soon.

[Gary]

I would really care if it came with code...

At the very least it should be fun to play with...

[darkpivot]

I have a bunch of ideas I want to try out. I mean, my main thing is filmmaking over source modding really, so I'm really really excited.

[nub]

Here's to hoping that the movie that Shane Acker plans on making with Source Filmmaker is successful and attracts an audience of other directors/studios. I really like the idea of bridging the gap between movies and video games, and Source Filmmaker seems like the perfect opportunity for it. Plus, I generally like CG films.