From start to finish…hp workstations
circa 2001
Friday Flashback #387
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Friday Flashback #386
RULE the SCHOOL
Be creative. Explore. Animate. XSI.
Friday Flashback #385
Dominate. Master Every Angle. XSI v.3.0
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.
Friday Flashback #384
SOFTIMAGE|3D screenshot showing a bulge deformer in shaded and wire modes
Friday Flashback #383
An old Softimage Sumatra screenshot. Still a bit of DS stuff showing. And Get > Phenomenon ? That’s Twister stuff isn’t it?
Friday Flashback #382
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.
Friday Flashback #381
Productivity without Creative compromise
Wallpaper from 2002 Siggraph
Friday Flashback #380
Code Less Create More poster from 2008
Friday Flashback #379
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
Friday Flashback #378
SOFTIMAGE|3D running on a Silicon Graphics R10k O2
Some more pics, including Maya 6.5, LightWave 3D 5.6, and Power Animator
