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Transforming with the Bounding Box Manipulator

SOFTIMAGE|XSI comes equipped with a healthy offering of tools and features that can be used to manipulate and interact with objects in many different ways. In this video, we will not use the traditional manipulation methods that you would normally use when working in XSI. Instead, we will use the bounding box manipulator to interact with objects in a different way entirely.

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About Transforming Objects

Being able to interact with and manipulate objects in 3d space is one of the most fundamental principles in computer animation. In this video, we will be focusing on different techniques that can be used in XSI to confidently manipulate and interact with objects in your scene quickly and efficiently.

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Creating a Realistic Jellyfish Material

In this video, we will look at how to work with the subsurface scattering shader that comes with SOFTIMAGE|XSI. Learn how to use the render tree to setup and implement this useful and interesting shader to achieve a realistic look for soft translucent materials. We will be working on surfacing a jellyfish!

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Painting weight maps in xsi

Weight maps is a great feature we can take advantage of to help us in many ways with our projects

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Scene Layers

Learn to use scene layers in SOFTIMAGE|XSI in order to better organize different assets and elements. This can help to increase the speed and efficiency of any project.

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Navigating in hierarchies

In this video, we will look at some methods for navigating through a hierarchy in SOFTIMAGE|XSI.

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Creating Hierarchies

Being able to create hierarchies is very important in any 3d application. Learn to create, change, and manipulate hierarchies in SOFTIMAGE|XSI.

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Clusters

Learn how to quickly create clusters in SOFTIMAGE|XSI, as well as some techniques for viewing and working with them.

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Weight Maps

Using weight maps in SOFTIMAGE|XSI is a great feature we can take advantage of to help us in many ways with our projects. Let's have a look further at using them and applying them.

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Override Properties

Override properties can be used in many ways in SOFTIMAGE|XSI and can be quite useful for many situations. In this video we will see an example of applying an override to an object.

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Creating Presets

Creating presets in SOFTIMAGE|XSI is very important in order to recycle options and parameter values, saving time and work when needed.

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Duplicating and Cloning Objects

Learn how to duplicate objects in SOFTIMAGE|XSI, while acknowledging the difference between duplicating and cloning. We will also discuss duplication options.

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Making of Eternal Flame

Everything modeled using traditional polygon modeling in Softimage XSI and this is a new step towards learning

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Modeling a Realistic Rope

In this free tutorial, we will model a realistic rope using only SubD's. By taking advantage of SOFTIMAGE|XSI and it's powerful tools, we will find a quick and simple approach to model what would normally be a complex and difficult challenge.

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Making of Darkness Monster

Make a realistic and fantastic creature in Softimage XSI

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Calculate GI and FG

Learn how to use mental ray's GI and FG inside Softimage XSI

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Modeling a CD Jewel Case

Learn how to create this realistic CD Jewel Case with only polygons inside SOFTIMAGE|XSI. Learn tips and tricks used in the industry to create this model in a fast efficient way that helps you save time.

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Global Illumination and Final Gathering in mental ray

Learn how to use mental ray's Global Illumination and Final Gathering inside SOFTIMAGE|XSI for a photo-realistic render and learn industry tips and tricks on how to combine mental ray's lighting features for higher quality renders.

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Introduction and Animation with Mod Tool

Introduction and Animation with Softimage XSI 6 Mod Tool in detail

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Accessing Menus

Knowing how to work with menus in Softimage|XSI is very important and vital to success. You will learn a few new tricks that will speed up your interaction with Softimage|XSI.

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