What’s New from ten years ago on the softimage.com home page
From the 2006 whitepaper “Getting Into Character: Building Performances
for Next-Generation Productions”:
Softimage Co.:
20 Years of Character Animation Innovation
Founded in 1986, Softimage has always been the company that character
animators look to for intuitive tools that allow them to work artistically.
Our founding principles are rooted in the idea that, regardless of its
technological underpinnings, 3D content creation is a fundamentally
artistic pursuit – that technology should empower artists, not restrict
them. For the last twenty years Softimage has set a breakneck pace of
innovation that has driven the 3D industry forward.
Everything you need (Foundation), everything you want (Essentials), everything there is (Advanced)
The XSI 4.0 price guide:
See also flashback #81
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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
BatchServe 1.5 in SOFTIMAGE|XSI 3.0
A demo by Chinny
h/t to Sven C
And here’s a few screenshots from the video:
Node graph from the old days. Schematic view screenshot from an article about Tekkon Kinkreet.
SOFTIMAGE|RTK Crowd
“Softimage RTK enables users to program behaviors for digital crowds.”
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