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Friday Flashback #256

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Softimage 3D 3.8 Extreme boxed set – eBay
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Complete boxed set of Softimage|3D 3.8 SP2 Extreme – includes installation discs for IRIX and Windows, manuals, pamphlets, and a working license file.

Soft|3D runs great on vintage SGI hardware because it is highly streamlined and memory-efficient. Even an Indy will run it perfectly. Requires IRIX 6.2. You can check my photo gallery for a screenshot and a description of the software.

This is the ultimate classic 3D animation package – along with PowerAnimator and Renderman, it was part of the trifecta of high-end 3D apps used by the major visual effects studios. The huge box looks awesome on a shelf, and the software is a joy to use.
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Friday Flashback #254

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Fuel For the Mind edition 1 05/96

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Friday Flashback #248

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Deutsche XSI Character Design Video Tutorials from 2008
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Slashboy character on the DVD cover

In 2008, the German Softimage reseller Mario Prang of Slash.de published the first commercial XSI training series in German, entitled “XSI Character Design Basic”, a six dvd set covering “Boxmodelling, UV-Mapping, Rigging, Shape Animation and Toonshading”, created and narrated by Zlatan Jungbluth. Some of the modeling tutorials can still be found here: https://vimeo.com/album/2806721. Sadly, Zlatan never got around uploading the whole series in the end.

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After this Mario Prang released two more training dvds, “Dynamics 1”, covering Rigid and Soft Bodies Basics and “Dynamics 2”, covering the basics of the newly unveiled ICE.

hat tip: Hirazi Blue

Friday Flashback #247

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Seat of power.
SOFTIMAGE|XSI 5.0

  • Work with ten times the details
  • Easy migration from Maya
  • File quality normal maps
  • mental ray v.3.4

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“The Prince of Persia–The Two Thrones’ cinematics came
to life with SOFTIMAGE|XSI allowing us to fine-tune
these characters and environments using one single tool,
from modeling to texturing all the way through animation
and rendering”

–Ubisoft Cinematic Team 2005

An advert from the November 2005 issue of Game Developer Magazine. I didn’t find it last week because I just did a text search for “Softimage”.