Friday Flashback #185

Posted on August 15, 2014 by xsisupport

Some images from SIGGRAPH 2000 in New Orleans.

Up until this year’s SIGGRAPH, this was the last SIGGRAPH I attended. Things have changed in 14 years 🙂

Friday Flashback #184

Posted on August 8, 2014 by xsisupport

Softimage Booth Interviews from SIGGRAPH 2004
https://vimeo.com/102924942
Interviews with people from RIOT, Stan Winston Digital, PSYOP, Pandemic Studios, Pandemic Studios, Mainframe Entertainment, and KromA

Friday Flashback #183

Posted on August 1, 2014 by xsisupport

Softimage booth at SIGGRAPH 2004

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.

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.

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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.”