Second annual Saxxy Awards

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9 months ago

Valve today announced further details on the second annual Saxxy Awards. This year's Saxxy entrants will be powered by the Source Filmmaker (SFM), the recently released storytelling tool Valve created inside the Source Engine to create all its animated short films, including those in the "Meet the Team" series of Team Fortress 2 shorts.

Entrants will compete for top honors in five categories, including Best Comedy and Best Drama. Every winner will take home a Saxxy, and the overall winner will also win a trip to Valve and have a chance to see their work aired on GTTV's VGA Preshow this December.

I am absolutely inspired and stunned by the early work I've seen from fans experimenting with SFM. ~ Geoff Keighley

Submission Rules
  • Entries must be no longer than five minutes.
  • Each entry must be at least 720p.
  • All entries must be submitted using the Source Filmmaker's upload to YouTube™ and Steam Community menu option.
  • Only entries submitted between Nov. 1, 12:00 AM and Nov. 15, 12:00 AM GMT will be considered.
  • Voting begins Nov. 16.
  • Winners, selected by Valve from the community-chosen nominees, will be announced by Dec. 31, 2012
  • All co-creators must be finalized by submission deadline to be considered.
  • You are free to use any Valve IP.
  • If you use any non-Valve IP, you must be the copyright owner or have explicit permission from the owner.
  • Multiple submissions per person are fine.
  • Submissions must be free of advertisements.

More information can be found at teamfortress.com/saxxyawards2012.

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    Posted 8 months ago

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    I had great ideas to do with TF2. But now with SFM, the dreams are gone

    Why are they, "gone"? With SFM, it should be even easier for you to make your ideas come to life, since the program is so easy to use.

    Actually, trying to follow the tutorials for the normal person is damn near impossible. Usually if you have had experience with modding, it's a much easier task.

    I actually taught myself most of the things I know. If you need easy-to-follow tutorials, check these guys out: http://www.youtube.com/user/JimerXLins/videos?view=0 http://www.youtube.com/user/Ronaldthecock/videos?view=0

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    Posted 9 months ago

    Posted by Eugene

    Posted by gabrielwoj

    I had great ideas to do with TF2. But now with SFM, the dreams are gone

    Why are they, "gone"? With SFM, it should be even easier for you to make your ideas come to life, since the program is so easy to use.

    Actually, trying to follow the tutorials for the normal person is damn near impossible. Usually if you have had experience with modding, it's a much easier task.

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    Posted 9 months ago

    Posted by Eugene

    Posted by gabrielwoj

    I had great ideas to do with TF2. But now with SFM, the dreams are gone

    Why are they, "gone"? With SFM, it should be even easier for you to make your ideas come to life, since the program is so easy to use.

    Easy, but extremely buggy and crashes all the time. My pc is very good but crashes like minute per second

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    Posted 9 months ago

    Posted by gabrielwoj

    I had great ideas to do with TF2. But now with SFM, the dreams are gone

    Why are they, "gone"? With SFM, it should be even easier for you to make your ideas come to life, since the program is so easy to use.

    GO PENS GO!
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    Posted 9 months ago

    I had great ideas to do with TF2. But now with SFM, the dreams are gone

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    Posted 9 months ago

    I had something planning with SFM actually, basically Meet the Heavy but with this gun instead of the default one.

    Now that I'm hearing that this year's Saxxy Awards are SFM exclusive, I might just get off my lazy bum and get something done. Unfortunately, I don't have enough space on my HDD to install SFM, so I guess I won't be getting a Saxxy this year either.

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    Posted 9 months ago

    Posted by gabrielwoj

    SFM isn't a solution. It crashes every damn second. Tried in Win7, crash. WinXp, crash. It's unstable too much for a movie competition

    Not to mention it doesn't work on mac, unless they fixed that... Seperate catogories for replay and sfm entries would be a bit of a solution, but they do have until november to fix all the bugs/crashing.

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    Posted 9 months ago

    SFM isn't a solution. It crashes every damn second. Tried in Win7, crash. WinXp, crash. It's unstable too much for a movie competition

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    Posted 9 months ago

    I don't get why they made it later than last year, also, the SFM requirement will make it so many, many people cannot enter. I cannot grasp how they can call it the second annual saxxys when the first saxxys used a different system. They may as well have just made it the SFM contest.

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