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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.

Rated: with 1613 hits  Added on: Jan 06, 2008

Introduction and Animation with Mod Tool

Introduction and Animation with Softimage XSI 6 Mod Tool in detail

Rated: with 1531 hits  Added on: Dec 12, 2007

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.

Rated: with 754 hits  Added on: Dec 11, 2007

Accessing Tools

Accessing tools and knowing how to use them quickly is important to working quickly and efficiently. Fortunately, Softimage|XSI has a few tricks up its sleeve. In this video, you will learn a few tricks to speed up your ability to use tools in Softimage|XSI.

Rated: with 684 hits  Added on: Dec 11, 2007

Choosing an Interaction Model

Softimage|XSI has the option to change the keyboard layout to a more familiar keyboard map for those users coming from 3dsMax or Maya. We will look at how to change the interaction model.

Rated: with 537 hits  Added on: Dec 11, 2007

Custom Toolbars and Shelves

In Softimage|XSI, we have access to special toolbars that can speed up our workflow and make our work easier. We will look at some examples, as well as how to open the toolbars.

Rated: with 765 hits  Added on: Dec 11, 2007

Texture Painting on Car

Learn shading, painting, and mapping techniques with a car door as an example in XSI

Rated: with 1530 hits  Added on: Nov 27, 2007

Texture Painting with Softimage/XSI – Part 1

Texture Painting with Softimage/XSI – Part 1 This is the first of a two part tutorial series from Noesis Interactive. Using Softimage/XSI, learn shading, painting, and mapping techniques with a car door as an example. This lesson will be very useful to anyone interested in creating textures for 3D objects.

Rated: with 742 hits  Added on: Nov 23, 2007

Tagging a Rig in Softimage/XSI

This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag a rig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigs so that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data to different 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video game development will find this tutorial very useful.

Rated: with 1201 hits  Added on: Nov 08, 2007

Making of Veggie Pirates

Explained the techniques used in the creation of this image, Softimage XSI and Zbrush was the main softwares

Rated: with 1287 hits  Added on: Aug 30, 2007

SoftImage|XSI Tutorial - Texture blending using weight maps

CGIndia.org bring's quite Useful and Free tutorial for SoftImage|XSI Users. The tutorials is created by character animator and independent filmmaker, Christoph Schinko who has been a Certified Softimage XSI instructor for over 5 years. In this XSI Tutorial Christoph shows technique of Texture blending using weight maps in Softimage XSI.

Rated: with 2273 hits  Added on: Jun 18, 2007

[Video]Texture Painting in SoftImageXSI - Part 1

This tutorial will teach you how to paint textures in the SoftImage XSI 3D program. It is the first video of a two part series.

Rated: with 1649 hits  Added on: Jun 09, 2007

[Video]Texture Painting in SoftImageXSI - Part 2

This tutorial will teach you how to paint textures in the SoftImage XSI 3D program. It is the second video of a two part series.

Rated: with 1337 hits  Added on: Jun 09, 2007

Arm Rigging for Animators

PDF tutorial by Christoph Schinko. Arm rig with stretchy chains, chain options, hand snapping, elbow offset, etc.

Rated: with 2102 hits  Added on: Mar 05, 2007

Cartoon Eyes

PDF tutorial by Christoph Schinko. Level: Beginner Setting up cartoony eyes for animation.

Rated: with 4244 hits  Added on: Mar 05, 2007

Texture blending using weight maps

.pdf tutorial by Christoph Schinko. Level: Beginners Build the rendertree, setup the weight maps and paint directly onto the geometry to make textures appear/blend in.

Rated: with 1469 hits  Added on: Mar 05, 2007

Making of Parthenon

In this tutorial Marco Delgado explains how he made the Panthenon image for CGArena.com Challenge

Rated: with 5305 hits  Added on: Jun 14, 2006

Ambient Occlusion 2MB Video

Ambient Occlusion 2MB Video in XSI

Rated: with 6901 hits  Added on: May 31, 2006

Lightmap based Ambient Occlusion - Faking FG with sampled Lightmap and AO shade

This tutorial shows a method for generating FinalGather like ambience using the XSIAmbientOcclusion and the Lightmap Color_Sampler shader in XSI. The basic idea behind this, is to create faster and non-flickering (animation) renderings. Unfortunately this method is not as accurate as FG and doesn't support multiple bounces.

Rated: with 2906 hits  Added on: May 31, 2006

Making of Home and Fire

In this tutorial Marco A. Delgado explains, about the making of Home & Fire image for CGArena March Challenge

Rated: with 3970 hits  Added on: Apr 26, 2006