Aaron Sims, Michael Isner, «Experience XSI 4: The Official SOFTIMAGE | XSI 4 Gui

XSI is the next generation in digital animation software. It was used to create some of the first realistic CG characters developed for film and it continues to be used by artists and animators worldwide in new and creative ways and in many different fields—from computer games to the film industry, from commercials to music videos. This official Softimage guide will show you how you can effectively use XSI to create compelling, lifelike characters. You’ll cover each step—from designing and modeling to rendering and compositing. Learn how you can use Behavior to create intelligent characters that can interact with one another to form a realistic 3D animated crowd. You’ll also cover scripting and how it can be used to save time and increase productivity.

See how an industry pro creates designs in XSI for the motion picture industry.

Groundbreaking new approaches currently in development in XSI are discussed.

Learn from one of the original developers of XSI and the current Animation Lead at Softimage.

Learn character and creature animation from practical, real-world projects.

Includes hundreds of incredible, original 3D images in full color.

Chapter 1. The Interface

Chapter 2. Designing and Modeling a Character

Chapter 3. Texturing Your Character

Chapter 4. Character Setup

Chapter 5. Animating Your Character

Chapter 6. Scripting in XSI

Chapter 7. Lighting, Rendering, and Compositing Your Character

Chapter 8. Making Crowds and Character Logic with Behavior Image Gallery

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Thanks Alexpal for this post ,Can you help with the Maya Rigging Tutorials the guys at RS has deleted it

I extracted and got the error message that file names are too long . Anyone knows a workaround for this ? It apends many times with others too .