I really want to get into SFM, to animate Overwatch porn and

Go to /3/ and ask there. It is not an uncommon question there so you will find some answers there.

>>379835587
Thank you, I forgot about this board

>>379834058
It's an easy and intuitive tool, there's no reason to learn Blender/Maya for SFM animations.

Animation is universal, to do good in SFM, you need to learn the basics of animation in the first place.

don't go to /3/, they'll laugh at you.

Just go on youtube and search tutorials, then practice.

>>379836660
Can you use sfm for importing into unity or unreal.

>>379837821
What? Liking making animations in SFM to import into UE/Unity? Pretty sure you can't, and even if you could, there's no reason you should want to.

>>379837821
Do you even know what you're trying to do?

>>379834058
>SFM

use blender, all the animated porn makers use it now.

>>379838756
Blender is a lot more difficult to use and doesn't have a gigantic library of free models that work for what you want out of the box.
It does produce better content, but you'll either have to pay other modelers for their models to get the good ones or make your own.

>>379838626
Create the model and rig in blender. Animate in sfm then import the model and animations into unity / unreal?

>>379839472
Why would you do the third step?
Doesn't matter though since nothing can be exported from SFM besides finished renders.

>>379839114
Aren't the models on SFM just straight rips from games? Surely whatever software they're using for that you could just click "Save as whatever the fuck format Blender uses"?

>>379839472
SFM is just for videos I'm pretty sure.

>>379840590
You can do animations in blender and export the model with the animations intact for use in unity.

Since sfm is good at animations I thought it could export something unity could recognise.

But if it can only export finished renders then it won't worj

>>379840650
Straight rips? The models have to be ripped, then cleaned up and rigged/weighted properly (if they're not already) and then compiled to SFM.

>>379840889
Ah, makes sense.

>>379840841
SFM isn't "good" at animation.
It's just easy. Plug and play model installation.
Easy to use interface.

It has a severely limited lighting engine compared to Blender/Maya. It also has bad model controls (models cannot be changed after compiling, only by bone scaling or built in flexes).
Propably a slew of other things.

I use SFM myself because I'm not savvy enough to use the big boy software. I only use it as a hobby, not a patreon comissioner doing it as actual work.

>>379839114
>paying cucks for game models that arent theirs
Anyone who paid them is an even bigger cuck

>>379839114
>It does produce better content
From what I've seen the ones who still do SFM have better animations than the ones who use Blender. Some of the Blender animators make the characters look like they're made of fucking bubblegum, and don't forget the janky animations too.

>>379841449
Look at Ellowas' work for example.
That level of quality cannot be reproduced in SFM, no matter the skill of the animator/poser.

>SFM porn
>people just overdo shaders and screen effect to hide the disgustingly bad animation
>fucking grain filter and shadow everywhere
>awful voice actress all the time
>awfully loud clapping sex sound when the animation is not even as agressive as the sound
>people pay monthly patreon for this but wouldn't pay for porn that ain't SFM

i could just name 2-3 good animators but they'd prolly do a better job with Blender

>>379841953
I just want to create a tumblr and post futa Overwatch shit
I know that I'd ideally should use Blender and all that, but I literally don't know anything about 3D editing/animation and all that

>>379841572
Ellowas only good one was the Widowmaker one, think that was one of if not the first. One of his recent ones, the Dva one I think, was mediocre. Same with that one Mercy one. Leeterr is probably one of the best.

>>379841953
>but wouldn't pay for porn that ain't SFM
Says who?

>>379842584
Ellowas did WoW porn before his OW stuff.
LeeteRR is good I agree. Another favorite of mine is Yeero.

>>379842756
Do you know how Leeterr does his stuff, I mean in terms of look not animation? I got no clue how he makes his shit look so good. The Lara Croft and Yen ones are really nice.

>>379842850
I'm not familiar with the software he uses so no.
He propably did a lot of practice with lighting.
Lighting is one of the most important aspects to learn.

>>379842850
I prefer the more amateur looking sfm. The higher quality stuff is usually less imaginative.

Coot27 and cicsfm are two of my favorites

>>379843040
>I prefer the more amateur looking sfm. The higher quality stuff is usually less imaginative.
Is this code-speak for furry shit? noname55 or whatever his name is used to do a lot of good stuff before he started getting paid to do furry shit over and over again. I mean good for him furries got hooked on him and he's making bank off it, but still, that shit does nothing for me.

>>379843007
I've tried fiddling around with it but damn the settings in SFM seem so limiting, there's got to be some weird shit you can do with all kind of lights to get it to look as good as his.

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just fuck around with the graph editor for a few months making random shit, sfm is pretty easy.

>>379843121
I was going for the poses and stuff being basic and slow

also yes

>>379843186
Not quite.
It's Source engine after all.
Jack of all trades, master of none.

You can try post-processing with something like After Effects, but yeah the SFM lighting is pretty basic.

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>>379843040
The new guy darkpixel24 has some great ideas but it's always ruined by not looping correctly. It's a real shame that Tsoni is dead I was looking forward to fnaf3

>>379843381
I'm guessing he uses the max render settings though, right? I haven't tried the highest yet but I get the feeling that even if I did the models still wouldn't look as good in the end(mainly thinking about Lara). That can't be because of lighting setup and shit, right?

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I dunno if it's the animations or models but from what I've seen blender blows sfm right out the water. It gets to the point where all sfm animations look the same. I think the textures in sfm look worse overall too, dunno why.

Look up people like yeero, arhoangel, blenderknight. We really don't need anymore sfm animators.

Pic related, this guy does near stuff too.

>>379843871
It just looks awkward to me honestly, at least with SFM it looks closer to the games.

>>379843871
I don't mind blender when done correctly. Sometimes it can have that uncanny effect.

also >>379843313

render times are stupid long in blender and it's much more complicated.

sfm can look pretty good if you know what you're doing.