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Friday Flashback #254
Fuel For the Mind edition 1 05/96
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Friday Flashback #253
Sumatra banner (circa 07 April 1999)
Friday Flashback #252
Here’s a Sumatra mockup from May 1998 (the original file was named “3D\rebirth\newsuma2.jpg”).
Friday Flashback #251
Friday Flashback #250
SOFTIMAGE|DS build screen
From the portfolio of Thomas Krul
Friday Flashback #249
Softimage Sumatra screenshot from 2000 showing the render tree for a “rust” effect
For comparison, here’s the render tree from Softimage 2015 SP1.
Friday Flashback #248
Deutsche XSI Character Design Video Tutorials from 2008
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.
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
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
“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”.
Friday Flashback #246
From the November 2005 issue of Game Developer Magazine, a couple of screenshots and mentions of Softimage XSI.
From the “Heads Up Display” section:
From the article “SCALING THE CABAL: VALVE’S DESIGN PROCESS FOR CREATING HALF-LIFE 2”:
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