When Lucas gave us the task to develop
Clone Wars we knew that it would be a
visually demanding project.There was no way that we could have
done this project with anything but SOFTIMAGE|XSI.
SOFTIMAGE|3D screenshot showing a bulge deformer in shaded and wire modes
An old Softimage Sumatra screenshot. Still a bit of DS stuff showing. And Get > Phenomenon ? That’s Twister stuff isn’t it?
Toon Shaders
SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.2.0 provides next generation Toon Shaders for interactive, non-photorealistic rendering.
I notice there’s a mental ray warning “space max depth too large”. Google didn’t find anything for that exact string! Guess it wasn’t too common.
Productivity without Creative compromise
Wallpaper from 2002 Siggraph
Code Less Create More poster from 2008
On a challenging project like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, we look for speed and flexibility in our character animation tools. With the performance of the Subdivision Surfaces, the non-destructive character creation workflow, the open-ended scripting, and the rendering power of mental ray in XSI, we here at Stan Winston Studio are able to produce extraordinary digital characters and visual effects. SOFTIMAGE | XSI was a natural fit for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and is the perfect fit for SW Digital.
Randall J. Rosa / Animation Director
André Bustanoby / VFX Supervisor
SW Digital
SOFTIMAGE|3D running on a Silicon Graphics R10k O2
Some more pics, including Maya 6.5, LightWave 3D 5.6, and Power Animator
From the 1996 Fuel for the Mind CD, the “Chain” advert for Guinness, by Blink Productions
See the full ad here:
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