sourcefilmmaker free by valve

http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/

"The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa. By utilizing the hardware rendering power of a modern gaming PC, the SFM allows storytellers to work in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get environment so they can iterate in the context of what it will feel like for the final audience."


http://www.youtube.com/user/SourceFilmmaker/

The level of technical quality this tool offers is simply awesome - the video referenced above is the proof :)
I like the helpful features such as lip sync based on phoneme detection from audio file.

... quite curious how this will catch up, I think we could see some really nice stuff produced by this SW!


Petr