Tutorial #62: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Making Hands: Fillet Intersection (English)
by Shinsaku Arima - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a realistic humanoid hand model using a couple of powerful NURBS tools built into Softimage|XSI.

Tutorial #63: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Ping-Pong: The Animation Editor (English)
by Anthony Rossano - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
You’ll learn how to: Set Keyframes a few different ways - Edit and fine-tune the animation - Change timing with the Animation Editor - Work with the slope of the Animation Curves - Create Animation Cycles - Add in anticipation and follow-through to your work

Tutorial #64: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Lip Service: Birail Extrusion (English)
by Anthony Rossano - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Let’s make some lips, using a variation on the Extrusion tool. You’ll learn how to: Perform a birail extrusion and use the Guided extrude

Tutorial #65: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Toro the Happy Tuna: Deformations (Softimage|XSI)
by Shinsaku Arima - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Model a fish and his environment using several deformers, and then make him swim around, using the curve deformation tool. Can you say "Jojo the Happy fish?" =O

Tutorial #66: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Face Modeling: Weight Maps and the Generic Attribute Painter (English)
by Shinsaku Arima - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The Generic Attribute Painter is a fantastic tool to edit surface geometry quickly and easily. Let’s use the GAP and other tools to model a face. Along the way, we will pick up several modeling techniques.

Tutorial #67: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

XSI Illuminated: Expressions (English)
by Anthony Rossano - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
XSI was built from the ground up to be extensible. What’s even more unusual is that XSI can be extended with standard scripting languages like VBScript and Jscript, as well as with a C or C++ development kit. Making a program open and extensible means that you’ll always be able to do what you need to do – even if you have to write a bit of code to get it done. Fortunately, XSI has a continuum of extensibility, starting with the easy to use and simple expressions, followed by the still easy to use but slightly more complicated Scripting functionality, and ending at the full blown computer science of the SDK (Software Development Kit). This section addresses the first one – the easy one, expressions.

Tutorial #68: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Motion Blur Output Shader (English)
by Ed Harriss
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Motion blur makes fast-moving objects look more natural and realistic. The faster an object moves, the more blur it will receive. This tutorial is a short excerpt from Mesmer's XSI 102: Materials, Textures, Lighting, and Rendering web-based distance learning class.

Tutorial #69: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Introduction to Softimage|XSI 1.5 (English)
by Anthony Rossano - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This article was written for ww.3Dgate.com December 2000

Tutorial #70: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Softimage|XSI article(English)
by Anthony Rossano - Mesmer
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This article originally appeared in the May 2000 issue of 3D Magazine

Tutorial #71: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Building a Basic skeleton in XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
If an animator doesn't have control over his or her creation, the performance will suffer. The art of skeletal building, or boning, is one that is constantly evolving. Ideas have been adopted and discarded as fast as investors of bre-x stock. The skeleton we will build here is the base skeleton, the core structure of the character.

Tutorial #72: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Keying your entire character with a single custom button in XSI(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Softimage XSI has the ability to quickly create groupings of objects, mark the desired parameters of a group to be keyframed, and then keyframe the group, creating a function curve for the marked parameters. Coming from a Softimage 3D background, I was at first dismayed to see that XSI no longer supported the many Explicit keying options that were available in Soft3D. I finally realized that with a bit of simple copy and paste scripting, I could replicate my beloved Softimage 3D process and improve immensely upon my workflow.

Tutorial #73: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Interacting with a scene object in Softimage XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
To allow for the interaction between the character and the bottle, we will use a position constraint and an orientation constraint. No constraints have been added to this scene yet, other than those that control the character rig.

Tutorial #74: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Modeling 2D characters using XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
(This tutorial is also avaliable in French)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
We will not be using any toon shading, as it doesn't allow for the precise control of the ink line that is needed for these types of characters. Our methods will be simple and effective, and offer far more in the way performance than other automated solutions.

Tutorial #75: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

F-Curve work: Focusing on overlap and follow through (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with overlap and follow through using the function curve tools available to you in XSI.

Tutorial #76: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Volume FX - Advanced Lightning Shader(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The lightning effect is a versatile volume tool, that can be used to simulate many natural and man made effects.

Tutorial #77: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Manipulating Environment Shaders in XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Environment Shaders are a great procedural way to create a variety of atmospheric sky and ground FX for your animations. This tutorial will focus on implementing the Legacy Day shader.

Tutorial #78: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Setting up nested Custom Parameters to create Hand pose sliders.(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
We're going to focus on creating an ergonomic interface for the hands. Simply going in and posing the hand using FK can get a bit tedious. In this tutorial, we'll use linking and custom parameters to create all the poses we'll need for our hand.

Tutorial #79: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Layered Shape Animation in XSI: The musculature method Part 1(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
There are many ways to perform any task in XSI. It all depends on your preferred workflow. When it comes to shape animation, there are a number of solutions available to you.

Tutorial #80: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Layered Shape Animation in XSI: The musculature method Part 2(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
There are many ways to perform any task in XSI. It all depends on your preferred workflow. When it comes to shape animation, there are a number of solutions available to you.

Tutorial #81: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Shoulder skeleton setup in XSI: The musculature method (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The movement of the shoulder often poses the most problems for animators. An animators basic shoulder setup usually involves nothing more than a single skeleton bone chain beginning just after the neck and ending at the start of the arm skeleton root. Upon animating ball and socket type characters, or extremely stylized characters this method can be very successful.

Tutorial #82: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Constructing a Character Rig In XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Character Rigging hasn't changed that much for me in the last couple of years. The most important thing to consider when creating good rigging , is to make things as simply as possiblel.

Tutorial #83: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Render Tree nodes in XSI (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
In this tutorial we'll use some of the stock rendertree nodes to create a wicker basket. Transparency mapping is an excellent way to preserve geometry and create extra detail in your creations At a low cost in terms of resource consumption.

Tutorial #84: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

General Enveloping Reference notes(English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
After building and parenting your skeleton into a logical hierarchy, you'll need to attach it to the character's geometry you've created. This is called enveloping. Your skin is the envelope and the skeleton systems are the deformers.

Tutorial #85: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Plateau Interpolation (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
When you start animating a character where the feet need to be locked to the ground for periods of time, you'll find that Plateau interpolation is a perfect choice to begin animating with.

Tutorial #86: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Resetting Your Actor (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Once your character is rigged and parented together underneath a null object that is a child of a model node, you can set a reference pose for the skeleton and rig

Tutorial #88: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Modeling a Plant(English)
By Martin Belleau - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This Tutorial deals with modeling a plant, and how you can use Cloth to help create effects.

Tutorial #89: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Dynamic on Skeletons (English)
By Martin Belleau - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This Tutorial shows you how to get Dynamics with IK Skeletons

Tutorial #90: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Texture Supports and Texture Projections(English)
By Martin Belleau - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This Tutorial deals with modeling a plant, and how you can use Cloth to help create effects.

Tutorial #91: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Simple Rendertree Texturing(English)
By Kim Aldis - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This tutorial demonstrates a simple method for mixing and applying textures to a geometry by building trees of texture nodes and passing the result into the diffuse component of the geometry's surface.

Tutorial #92: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Using the Rendertree to blend shaders(English)
By Kim Aldis - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
In this tutorial we look at how to blend shaders, using textures and shade nodes as mattes to composite shaders onto a surface. This is a very powerful technique; it allows you to blend a wide variety of shaders together on a geometry's surface giving you very fine control over any shading property of a surface.

Tutorial #93: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Sharing Materials (english)
By Jean-Francois Bouchard - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
If you have worked with big scenes in XSI, you know how managing materials can become troublesome. In a scene which requires multiple objects to share a material, it can be frustrating to copy/paste the material or save/load it onto the objects every time you make modifications. Thanks to the grouping feature of XSI, changes made to a material can be applied and visualized over a serie of objects in only a few seconds.

Tutorial #94: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Texture editor in XSI 2.0 (English)
By Manny Papamanos - Web site
(This tutorial is also avaliable in (Japanese)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Texturing a human head using the texture editor in SOFTIMAGE|XSI version 2.0

Tutorial #95: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

XSI'da HDRI - High Dynamic Range Images (English)
(This tutorial is also avaliable in (Turkish)
(This tutorial is also avaliable in (Japanese)
(This tutorial is also avaliable in (Spanish)
By Oktay Cinli - XSI|TR
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
HDR, standart resim öðeleri yanýnda (RGB, CYMK, Alpha, vs...) ortamýn aydýnlanma þiddetini de kaydedebilen bir formattýr. Bu sayede resmin çekildiði ortamdaki ýþýk þiddeti kesin olarak ölçülmüþ olur (Incident Illumination). Bu resim HDRI destekleyen bir programla sahneye uygulandýðýnda sahne gerçek dünyadaki gibi aydýnlanmýþ olur. Bu durum "Rendering with Natural Light / RNL" ya da "Image Based Lightning" olarak adlandýlýr.

Tutorial #96: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Character Setup - This Bot come from Space (French)
By Patrick Vier - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Tout le monde à déjà vu ce type de robot (Star Wars... et Godzilla qui n'est pas un robot, mais qui a utilisé les même techniques d'animations). Nous allons voir comment configurer ce SpaceBot afin de simplifer le travail des animateurs. Le but est de créer une combinaison de contraintes, d'expressions et euh!!... encore plein de choses...

Tutorial #97: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Cigarette Smoke Tutorial (French)
By Tony Johnson - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The Cigarette Smoke shader allows you to define columns of smoke without having to use particles. This is useful for quickly defining smoke rising from cigarettes, campfires, smoldering automobiles, irritated bosses etc.

Tutorial #104: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Order of Operators (English)
By Adam Sale - Joncrow Entertainment
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The order of operators on a particular piece of geometry make a big difference when the time comes to begin animating. Learn how to order operators to avoid errors later on in the production process.

Tutorial #105: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Video Tutorials: SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2.0 at SATIS 2001 (French)
By 3D ArtistVF
Looks like someone smuggled a video camera into the Softimage users group at SATIS 2001. Look in the middle of this page. There are 6 Softimage avis. (Between 30 and 60 meg each) covering SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2.0: Fur, Compositing, Texture Editing, Animation, etc... You'll need the DIVX codec to play them. http://www.divx.com

All of these approaches in the form I'd encountered them fail because of gimbel locking. To me good character setup is minimalist and a straight line to the optimal solution of best fit. The spine was usually the part of a character setup that was over designed, and not functional (in all fairness on my own rigs as well :) It seems likely this new approach will spread beyond XSI, so for the record: this is where it started. I released an early proto-type in the default rig of XSI 2.0, but a number of significant features have been added since.

Tutorial #134: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Branch Tutorial(English)
By : André Adam
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
In this tutorial we will have an in depth look at how to edit texture coordinates using the Texture Editor (TE). For this purpose we will texture a polymesh tree branch seamlessly by creating and editing two individual Texture Projections and using some blending stuff in the Render Tree later on.

Tutorial #135: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

"Fast" Smoke Tutorial (English)
By : Lepo - Website
(This tutorial is also avaliable in Japanese)
(This tutorial is also avaliable in Italian)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Create smoke effects using XSI particles that render Fast!

Tutorial #136: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

"HyperVoxel like" Fire Tutorial (English)
By : Lepo - Website
(This tutorial is also avaliable in Italian)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
One day....... a boy at work told me: You can't make a realistic fire in xsi without using Hypervoxel, Really??! Look here!

Tutorial #137: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Converting XSI models/textures to Viewpoint Vet Files(English)
By : Craig Simmons - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The Viewpoint Media Player (VMP) is a browser plugin that displays realtime streaming 3D content. It is a great way to present models and even animation with a realtime web intergration.

Tutorial #138: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

XSI Interface Tutorial(Spanish)
By Miquel - Webpage
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
An introduction to the XSI Interface in Spanish.

Tutorial #139: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

XSI Modeling Tutorial(Spanish)
By Miquel - Webpage
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
An XSI modeling tutorial in Spanish.

Tutorial #140: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

XSI Deformations Tutorial(Spanish)
By Miquel - Webpage
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
An XSI deformations tutorial in Spanish.

Tutorial #141: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Prism Part 1 (Japanese)
By AVANT Inc.
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
See how XSI can be used to create CG products.

Tutorial #142: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Making Fire Sprites(English)
By Anthony Rossano - Webpage
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
There’s nothing like a good fire: especially in video games. But creating good procedural fire isn’t as easy as rubbing two sticks together, it takes a little planning and some quality time tweaking in the Render Tree. Let’s go through just three of the limitless ways to create fire in XSI.

Tutorial #143: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating A Global Illumination Effect(Korean)
By Lavish
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Korean Global Illumination Tutorial.

Tutorial #144: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating A Glow Effect(Korean)
By Lavish
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Korean Glow Tutorial.

Tutorial #145: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating A Toon Effect(Korean)
By Lavish
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Korean Toon Shader Tutorial.

Tutorial #146: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating A Caustic Effect(Korean)
By Lavish
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Korean Caustics Tutorial.

Tutorial #147: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Setting Up and Using VB for XSI Plugin Development (English)
By Guy Rabiller - Website
(This tutorial is also avaliable in French)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
After my first failure trying to create a Visual Basic plugin for Softimage|XSI, by following the documentation indications, and after reading some enlightments from Sam Assadian and Bert Grollmann on the official mailing list, I found usefull to write this article for all of those around, like me, who are not code gurus nor professional developers.

Tutorial #148: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Rendering 2d Sprites in XSI(English)
By Michael Sheasby and Dave Lajoie - Website
A scene in a game involves a background with a set of smaller sprites
composited at run-time over top. The background may be a static image
or an AVI. Here is how to integrate the two. This tutorial includes a demonstration video (19mb) that explains how the Tracking
plugin works.

Tutorial #149: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Environment ball mapping shader and install tutorial(English)
By Fake3D - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
(Info on this tutorial is also avaliable in Chinese)
A Mental Ray Environment "Ball - Mapping" Shader and Its "Add-On" Package for SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2 on WinNT/2000 and Linux.

Tutorial #150: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Transfer shape animation from 1.5 to 2.01(English) (CURRENTLY OFFLINE)
By Stefan Andersson - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
NOTE! Shape animation made in 1.5, 2.0 can't be used in 2.01. To solve this
use this tutorial.

Tutorial #151: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Pushing Final Gathering(English)
By Manny Papamanos
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Learn to use conventional ray tracing along with the Final Gathering algorithm on a single pass

Tutorial #152: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Netview Tutorial(Japanese)
By Mugi Barley - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Netview!!!

Tutorial #153: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Fog Layer Pass(English)
By Guy Rabiller - Website
(This tutorial is also avaliable in French)
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The idea is based on the Layer Fog effect, wich means that we want to obtain a vertical gradient on all the objects of the scene. To do this, we will create a custom pass then apply a material on the objects partition wich will override those of the individual objects. Then we will open this material in the Rendertree and create our own shader.

Tutorial #154: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Spreadsheet Pass querie. Tutorial and AddOn(English)
By Guy Rabiller - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
(This tutorial is also avaliable in French)
When you create some passes in your projects, it is sometime laborious to modify rendering parameters especialy if you want to synchronize some of them. Of course, if you select more than one pass, when you edit the rendering options in the properties panel, modifications will be applied to all of them, except for some paths.But it is interresting to have a global view of your settings for all the passes at once, just before you start rendering for verification purpose or for last minute changes. This is the main purpose of this Add-On.

Tutorial #155: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

How to use Channels in SOFTIMAGE|XSI 2.0(English)
By Gordon Cameron - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Using A version of XSI that does not have channels? (version 2.0 or earlier) Then this is for you.

Tutorial #156: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Grass Tutorial(English)
By Andreas Byström
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Since version 2.01 of Softimage|XSI we have excellent support for hair. Although the name of the system is "hair" you can use it to create a lot of different effects, and in this tutorial I will try to explain how to make grass with it.

Tutorial #157: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Renderpass tutorial(English)
By Adam Sale - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Xsi comes prebuilt with a number of pass presets available for your projects needs. The time will arise, however, when the preset passes are found to be limiting in addressing your needs. This tutorial is intended to give an overview on the pass process from setup to final render. A later tutorial will delve into utilizing renderpasses in the FX tree. There are a number of tutorials provided with the XSI software documentation that serve to illustrate the usefulness of the pass presets.

Tutorial #158: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Snake: Soft Constraints in XSI(English)
By Adam Sale - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
This video will help you to understand constraints. You will need to download the TechSmith codec to play the video. (link provided in the tutorial)

Tutorial #159: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Oil Rig tutorial (English)
By Stephane Dube
In this tutorial we will take a look at the following: How to offset a constraint, define rigid envelope within XSI and create a constraint using clusters.

Tutorial #160: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Wireframe Toon Shader tutorial (English)
By Stephane Dube
This tutorial is in Adobe Acrobat Format.
In this tutorial we will learn how to create wireframe animations using the toon shader.

Tutorial #161: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Mountain Shader tutorial (English)
By Felix - Website
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a mountain shader.

Tutorial #162: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Faking depth of field in After Effects using a depth pass(English)
By Bernard Lebel - Website
I wrote this tutorial because I know many people, like me before, that are searching for a way to use a depth pass in Adobe After Effects. I asked in many forums, both 3D and After Effects ones, to no avail. But someday someone gave the answer in a forum, and I thought I could share this knowledge with you.

Tutorial #163: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Shape Animation Setup n' Stuff (English)
By Stefan Andersson - Website
I felt it was time to update my shape animation tutorial. There has been some changes in since I wrote the last one, so this is also a update and a "new" tutorial. I've taken this shape thing a bit further and it might be confusing for some people. I suggest that you read all of the tutorials provided from Softimage before attacking this. It's also aimed to people who are about to go beyond the pure basics of using Softimage|XSI.

Tutorial #164: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 1 (English)
By Gordon Cameron - Website
Production studios, 3D animators, and vendors of many popular computer graphics packages are increasingly using the term "non-linear animation" (NLA), which usually describes a way of working with various types of motion data at a higher level where animation sources are abstracted to transportable snippets. Nonlinear tools can be useful in many areas of production, such as previsualization, animation creation, motion editing, retargeting and reuse, choreography, and actor direction. This panel discusses practical and speculative uses of NLA techniques in a production environment. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #165: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 2 (English)
By Raf Anzovin - Website
Raf Anzovin, founder of Anzovin Studio, describes methods for using NLA tools. He includes layered cycles and additive motions to build complex character movements for a short independent animation. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #166: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 3(English)
By Laurent Lavigne - Website
Laurent Lavigne of Pixel Liberation Front explains NLA and Story Telling. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #167: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 4(English)
By Seth Rosenthal - Website
Seth Rosenthal of Industrial Light + Magic explains the advantages of NLA in production. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #168: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 5(English)
By Michael Isner - Website
Michael Isner of Softimage discusses character setup, optimization and mixing techniques for crowd animation. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #169: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Non-Linear Animation for Production Presentation: Part 6(English)
By NLA Panel - Website
Audience questions and answers regarding Non-Linear Animation for Production. NOTE: The server that hosts this video goes down quite often. If it is not working now, try again later.

Tutorial #170: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

How to model a head (Spanish)
By Antonio García Hernández - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Model a "cabeza" in XSI. Mi objetivo en este tutorial, es mostrar una manera fácil e intuitiva de llegar mediante modelado poligonal, a la realización de un rostro sencillo, que constituirá la primera parte del desarrollo de un personaje completo.

Tutorial #171: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating Objects With Negative Space(Spanish)
By xsikorea.com
SOFTIMAGE|XSI currently includes few features for creating holes (or negative spaces) in objects.

Tutorial #172: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Wrapping points to a spherical surface(English)
By Kim Aldis - Web site
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Wrap points of an object onto a sphere. A tutorial guide to manipulating points in a script. Reading and changing geometry points in a script, probably the question I'm asked most often by people who've figured out how.

Tutorial #173: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Técnica de Ajuste de Pesos para Personajes(Spanish)
By REALeMOTION STUDIOS
Modificar pesos en objetos requiere una visión artística, puesto
que no es perfecta. Por lo tanto, es importante que el valor
de peso (Weight) aplicado por defecto al "envelope" se acerque
lo más posible al resultado final.

Tutorial #174: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Stonehenge! (Spanish)
By REALeMOTION STUDIOS
En este tutorial aprenderás a mover objetos en el mundo 3D. Escena.zip

Tutorial #175: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

The Snake (Spanish)
By REALeMOTION STUDIOS
Esta es una técnica para deformar un objeto con una curva. Con esta técnica puedes mover un punto y hacer que los puntos vecinos se alteren proporcionalmente. De esta forma podemos conseguir animar fácilmente el desplazamiento de una serpiente.

Tutorial #176: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

DS Genout Shader Tutorial(Spanish)
By REALeMOTION STUDIOS
El formato que utiliza Avid|DS (.gen) no está soportado por SOFTIMAGE|XSI. Por lo tanto el formato no forma parte, del render existente y otras opciones de formatos de salida en SOFTIMAGE|XSI. Sin enbargo, hay una forma de generar archivos .gen desde SOFTIMAGE|XSI. Siguiendo estos sencillos pasos. Escena.zip

Tutorial #177: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Deep Softimage XSI v 3.0(Spanish)
By www.miquelcampos.com
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Este Video-CD educacional de Softimage XSI v 3.0 es la mejor forma de aprender Softimage XSI desde su casa. Con este vídeo aprenderá rápidamente todas las nociones generales de Softimage XSI y además podrá ver el funcionamiento de todas las nuevas herramientas de la versión 3.0.

Tutorial #178: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Creating a halo effect(English)
By Stephane Dube - Website
I would like to share a technique that I have often use to create a nice post-effect with the help of Photoshop, afterwards will an create this effect using the FX Tree inside of XSI 2.0 since we can apply this to a full sequence.

Tutorial #179: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

How do I remove Hard Edges from a mesh?(English)
By Stephane Dube - Website
This small documentation you will learn how to remove unwanted Hard Edges from a mesh.

Tutorial #180: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Mixing textures in Photoshop and Softimage|XSI(English)
By Andreas Byström
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
One of the most important things when creating realistic images is the surfaces and textures. In this tutorial I will try to explain how to build surfaces in layers and how to mix different textures with eachother. I will explain how to do this in Photoshop and Softimage|XSI but the technique is the same in all 2D and 3D applications.

Tutorial #181: SOFTIMAGE|XSI


Attaching objects to particles(English)
By Andy Hayes - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
In this lesson we shall look at attaching objects to particles. We shall then continue to look at the plethora of options available to us via scripting, and how we can make our own particle simulations.

Tutorial #182: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Tank Tread Scripting(English)
By Andy Hayes - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
Thirty nine tracks are already created for each side of the tank – seventy eight tracks in total - making it an extremely tedious task to setup and animate the entire tracks on an individual basis. We shall be using scripting to attach and set expressions on each track, so that the wheels rotate, along with the tracks when the tank is translated as a whole. The basic technique in use is to setup one individual track and use scripting to complete the remaining 38 tracks on each side.

Tutorial #183: SOFTIMAGE|XSI

Accessing Geometry Components (English)
By Andy Hayes - Website
Using the XSI NETVIEW? Click here: XSI NETVIEW VERSION
The ability to access object position, rotation and scaling information is relatively straight- forward in scripting.