SFM

English

Proper noun

SFM

1. Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker. A software tool for video capture and editing, often used to create animations.
   • 2012 June 27, Carol Pinchefsky, “Valve's New Animation Tool Gives Filmmakers Their Own (Free) Studio”, in Forbes:

     According to Valve’s SFM website, users “can think of the SFM as a virtual movie set with lights, actors, props and cameras.”

   • 2012 October 13, Richard Cobbett, “Top 10 Source Filmmaker Movies”, in PC Gamer Magazine:

     Easily one of the best directed SFM movies out there, mixing Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and a fine sense of timing.

   • 2014 November 7, William Usher, “Garry's Mod, SFM Get Mod Support For Mixamo's Fuse”, in Cinema Blend:

     The barrier to entry in game development and design is now lower than ever before, and with Fuse having Garry's Mod and SFM compatibility, it now means that gamers can mess around and create their own characters for their favorite Valve properties easier than ever before.

2. Abbreviation of Scarboro Foreign Missions. A Catholic order.
3. Abbreviation of Structure from motion. A photogrammetric range imaging technique for estimating three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional image sequences.

Noun

SFM (plural SFM)

1. Synonym of SFPM (“surface feet per minute”)

Noun

SFM (plural SFMs)

1. Initialism of simple face mask.

Anagrams

• FMS, FMs, FSM, MFS, MFs, MSF, SMF

Japanese

Etymology

From English SFM

Noun

SFM(エスエフエム) • (esuefuemu) 

1. Abbreviation of Source Filmmaker animation. (a CGI cartoon)

See also

• MMD (MMD)