Screenshots of the week

Posted on July 28, 2014 by xsisupport

League of Legends Cinematic: A New Dawn – Behind the Scenes

Friday Flashback #182

Posted on July 25, 2014 by xsisupport

Screenshot and caption from the July 2000 3d world review of Softimage XSI 1.0. Check out the old-style PPG.

Modelling is good but nothing to write home about, but things should improve. You do get the veritable pwerhouse of Softimge 3D thrown in for free, but integration between packages is certainly not ideal. Softimage XSI doesn’t support trimmed surfaces, for example.

The case of Sendori64.dll and the Softimage startup crash

Posted on July 24, 2014 by xsisupport

In this case, a Softimage user reported that on a machine where Softimage had worked on consistently for years, XSI.exe was now crashing at startup with the “Failed to save scene before system failure” error. He’d done all the troubleshooting steps, but still hadn’t found a solution.

It’s hard to resist a challenge like that, so I got my hands on the Process Monitor log, and it turned out to be a bit of an easy case. I went through the Process activity, and just before the crash (you can tell the crash point by where XSI.exe does a ProcessCreate on senddmp.exe), I took a look at the DLLs loaded by XSI.exe. Usually you’re looking for something that doesn’t belong, and when I saw Microsoft, Autodesk, Flexera, Apple, Apache, and…Sendori??? I thought I might have something.

The Google results for Sendori were a bit sketchy (a DNS redirector, yikes), so we removed it, and that fixed the startup crash.

Screenshots of the week

Posted on July 21, 2014 by xsisupport

Grow, tilt and spread from Fibonacci seeds
* download scene here

Normal smoothing
by Gotetz

Hand rig
by Land-Y

Gear_mc rig
by Land-Y

Robocop
by norvin_jp

GUILTY GEAR Xrd-SIGN-

Friday Flashback #181

Posted on July 18, 2014 by xsisupport

Bien sûr, parce que c’est Softimage

Launch reel for XSI version 4.0 at NAB 2004. Design by Andrew Elvish, music and graphics Orazio Fantini, editing Patrick Moine, produced by Brett Lush.

iameol.

Screenshots of the week

Posted on July 14, 2014 by xsisupport

Working with texture projections in ICE
by NNois

Travelling Wave with Softimage ICE

Internal to World Normal
by Land-Y

Basics of Joints in Maya

Joint Orientation and IK in Maya

Friday Flashback #180

Posted on July 11, 2014 by xsisupport

SOFTIMAGE | XSI v2.0 POWER CREATOR’S GUIDE The full description the super technique and basic functions of Ver2.0. Transition to XSI is OK with one book this from the 3D!

Price 5,600 yen + tax
Author Arene Raferye, Shigeru Araki, Takashi Umezawa, Kadoguchi Yoichiro, ANoriko Saito, Akira Sugiyama, Michael Arias, Rejean Gagne, Shinji Watanabe
Release Date May 2002
Total number of pages 408 pages
Issuance and sale Ltd. aspect Http://Www.FuGra.Tv/ (to a corporate aspect site)
ISBN ISBN4-7572-0924-X

hat tip to Todd Akita who sent me some pictures of the book. Todd adds “Screenshots are from an early Koji Morimoto-directed CM at Studio4c showing how they integrated traditional animation/CG.”