Screenshots from SOFTIMAGE Creative Environment v2.66 (captured on an SGI Indy running IRIX 5.3; it only has 8-bit graphics, hence the dithering in the shaded view).
Many thanks to Aaron Rodgers for contributing these screenshots.
Gesture. Unparalleled Artistry. XSI v.3.5
The new tools and interface in
SOFTIMAGE|XSI are really exciting.
XSI allows for a thoroughfare between
imagination and creation that we’d
never seen or experienced before.That mad us very ecited and made
us adopt XSI into our pipeline
as quickly as possible.PSYOP,Inc.
Jeremy Birn presents: Secrets of SOFTIMAGE 3D
GOK8 Kate Ertmann 10 Oct
Ah, another discovery from the move that will go in the AD museum. #vhs #softimage pic.twitter.com/AiZncfej
Softimage Creative Environment v2.15
September 18th 1991
via Andy Nicolas on twitter:
Found this at work. Yep, Softimage 2.5 actually came on tape. #betamaxsi pic.twitter.com/m2XdUTvq
Via twitter
Any #Softimage 3D/XSI/Digital Studio (Avid DS Nitris) fans remember this brochure from over a decade ago? twitter.com/ScreamingMasse…
— Screaming Masses (@ScreamingMasses) January 20, 2013
An XSI 5.11 screenshot. It looks kinda like Venice, which is where I’ll be by tomorrow afternoon 🙂
March 2000 SOFTIMAGE|3D 3.9 was the first release distributed via “the world wide web”.
The SOFTIMAGE|3D Version 3.9 release also represents a milestone for the company as it will be the first ever release that Softimage distributes to customers via the world wide web. Rather than waiting the customary 6-8 weeks that it takes for reproduction and shipping, customers under a valid support contract will be able to log on to the Softimage Support web site to download the software.
Marketing collateral for SOFTIMAGE|DS (from the Avid days).
I was originally hired at Softimage to be the lead writer on the DS documentation. That never happened. I sat around for months reading specs, going to meetings, and endlessly preparing doc plans, until I was drafted into doing some actual writing work on DKit. Then I moved on to the SOFTIMAGE|SDK, and I never did work on the DS docs, except for the DS|SDK.
Many thanks to Ed Schiffer for these pictures.
The XSI 1.0 box set. They don’t package software like that anymore.
