I Learned SFM in ONE WEEK

Yeah, well, I learned SFM in 6days and 23 hours

i love how no matter who he could animate its always Jerma

i can't believe corax is dead but before he died and became a cave skeleton he promised i could have all his stuff this is so sad thanks corax im so upset by this

damn this is so neat

I have over 1,000 + hours in sfm, it’s wasted so many hours of my life. The fact you went practically backwards from blender to sfm, is actually painful for me to process in my brain.

You know eltorro64rus' GMOD animations are something special when people mistake them for SFM animation

YOOOO THANK YOU FOR THE SHOUTOUT Side note, this was a very lovely and fun way to introduce the many peculiarities of SFM and put them to use! I could say a lot about my love-hate relationship with the program but I am extremely grateful that it has helped me get this far and achieve my dream job. My hope is also to make my future youtube content primarily using blender, perhaps I should follow your example to learn as efficiently as you have with source! Big respect for giving yourself this challenge and being open to new experiences, the community absolutely welcomes you.

7:50 i love how jerma,can literally make ANY voice, and also that ding was so smooth.

Thanks for checking out our small but dedicated community! SFM for a lot of us (me especially) was a huge starting point for entering the world of 3d animation and movie-making in general. While many old-timers have since moved on to become real professionals, some of us still stick around and use it to animate as our program of choice. I probably could have transitioned to Blender 5 years ago, but to this day I still regularly use and love the original SFM for it's speed and amazing animation tools (... for a free program!)

I would have never guessed your personality would be as chill and soothing given your profile pic and content.

the most talented animators of all time choosing to use the most unusable software to animate with has very quickly become a trope for the art industry

It was the opposite for me going from SFM to Blender so imagining learning it backwards is wild to me. Happy to hear it went well for you and you enjoyed your time with it :)

Appreciate you trying a new video format. I've loved every one of your animations and different animation styles. Keep up the good work!

as a fellow SFM animator, I welcome you

I can't believe you've been keeping such a satisfying voice and avatar from us this whole time! I'd watch a full-length TV episode of this.

Love the Corax character design and the continuity between the 2D and 3D version.The voice matches in well too!

Love the way you explain your learning method. Thanks for letting us know about how tough learning SFM was.

Your Learned SFM? I'm so sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏

3:27 I love how this looks like an old school Lazypurple animation. It's funny saying that, as if Lazy animated for years or something. Like, if you rewatch the How it Feels series, you notice that a lot of his SFM starts off relatively basic. It looks REALLY good from start to finish, but Lazy was trying to figure out SFM just like anyone else would. This is even evident in his behind the scenes videos. His animations got exponentially better with time, as he slowly learned to relinquish his sanity more and more for it (which, thankfully, he has begun to address, and everyone is accepting and encouraging of him) Let me get back on track. Essentially, the way Lazy might have begun animating with SFM must have been similar to this experience Corax had. Granted, they're both in different leagues, even now. It's crazy to think how similar their thought processes must have been. You record gameplay footage, and transition from one frame of gameplay, to one of custom animation rigging. A sort of cinematic smoke and mirrors kinda thing. You could call this timestamp "How it Feels to use SFM for the first time"

I love in no matter what situation he’s in. Jerma will always be silly and whimsical. This was really cool and honestly a really good way to develop a standard work ethic. I’m gonna try it out soon. THANKS CORAX