Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a man a fish-making machine, and there is no telling what he could do.

As an artist, Source Filmmaker has given me the ability to create static scenes of models, primarily Team Fortress 2 models, and create art for myself and the community. Without this engine, I would have no medium to bridge my ideas and my finished pieces.

Although many have seen using this software as a crutch for artists, many others have seen it as a stroke of genius, ingenuity and creativity. Other artists like I, no matter the medium they create, have taken full advantage of the tools lain before them, creating a variety of different workshop items of games and genres not found on steam, let alone provided by the Source engine.

I, like many others, am part of one of the many small communities that create static art, while others create animations, films, experimental models, future items for games— the list never ends. All of these communities are dedicated, passionate, and proud of the works-in-progress and finished pieces they conceive.

The base of the learning curve is very shallow, allowing newcomers to have easy access to tools such as posing, poster-making, lighting, while the curve steepens the deeper one experiments with animation, film making, model creation and testing, etc.

"A good artist copies; A great artist steals."