[SFM TUTORIAL] Learning Animation in Source Filmmaker Part 1 - The Absolute Basics Of Animation

///PLEASE WATCH THE VALVE SFM TUTORIALS FIRST./// In this tutorial I do not explain how to add assets, manipulate the camera or move around the SFM UI, however all of these points are explained in the Valve tutorials. LINK BELOW

Hi! Here's the first part of my tutorials on SFM. In this tutorial, we're going to be covering what 3D animation is, what the graph editor is for, what splines are, how tangents affect splines, and how to animate a basic ball bounce - the very first exercise any animator ever does. This tutorial is made for people who have just opened Source Filmmaker and want to learn how to animate for the first time. I've never made tutorials before and I don't think I did a very good job on this, but I hope I eventually make some things clear!

even if this turns out to be a terrible tutorial, at least it technically qualifies as ASMR


Links to Valve's official SFM tutorials:    • 00 basics  

Music: Have a Short Rest - Shoji Meguro - Persona 5 OST

If I still didn't make things clear, here's another tutorial by Thomas Larsson that covers almost the same stuff but in a much more professional way:    • SFM Tutorial: Into the Graph Editor! ...  

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - wow it was close
0:07 - PLEASE WATCH THE VALVE TUTORIALS BEFORE THIS
0:41 - How 3D Animation Works
3:08 - The Bouncing Ball Exercise
5:00 - Adjusting Spline Tangents, Movement over Time in the Graph Editor
6:49 - Adjusting the Timing of an Animation
9:32 - Tangents
14:28 - Another way: Bouncing Ball with Tangents and Inbetweens
16:08 - Adding Inbetweens to Detail Movement
19:32 - Refining and Adding Animation on Specific Axis
22:24 - #6: Slow-In and Slow-Out
24:06 - #7: Arcs
24:56 - Outro and Why it's Important to Know the Basics