Hasta La Motion!

Jun 15

CGI compositing with XSI

So i’m busy working with and learning the workflow between BOUJOU –> XSI SoftImage –> Nuke. If anyone knows of tutorials which deal with this, could you please post the link.

I also have looked long and hard for tutorials on doing CGI with XSI and have come back with nothing.. (e.g. Doing shadow only renders within XSI.) Does anyone have tutorials on what I am looking for?

Thanks again,

HeShe~

Feb 15

Grow Rig System Beta

Posted in: Softimage XSI

Hello,

I’d like to share a little pluggin I’ve been developing for XSI over the past year or so in between jobs. I call it The Grow Rig System, and it’s basically a simple auto rigger with a character mesh already attached. Sort of a combination of a rigging tool and a modeling tool.

Here’s a demo video:

http://www.kylevargas.net/growrig/de…_rig_demo.html

It’s a very simple tool, definitely a work in progress. I’ve certainly seen more advanced rig builders out there, but I feel the ideas my system centers around are very strong.

There are many features I have in mind to add to this system but I must admit my scripting and rigging skills are limited. Any feedback

would be a great help, but what I’m really hoping for are any riggers and scripters who would be up for working with me to improve and add to it.

Here’s where to download the files:

http://kylevargas.net/growrig/beta.html

So, if you’re interested in any capacity whatsoever, feel free to use it, test it, let me know what you think. And again, if you’re interested in working on it with me I’d love to hear from you.

Enjoy!

-Chris Covelli

Nov 30

XSI pipeline on mocap

Posted in: Softimage XSI

Hi guys
i have need of support for some tasks my company is facing right now, we where almost working totally on max, but for our last project, a short movie totally 3d, weve moved our pipeline on softimage, we will do lots of motion capture and been totally new to that workflow, i dont know which is the best pipeline to work with..
we’ve heard that doing mocap and refining it in motion builder to export them in xsi its a solution, but it involveds aswell some scripting to automatize those tasks, both in mb and xsi.
We are williing of course to pay aswell to have the workflow in place and ready to start working, my email is hidalgoserra@inximagine.it
thanks for any help.

Hidalgo Serra

Oct 19