Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted November 19, 2004 on this thread i will add XSI reources as i find them in the process of learning the software and solving the problems i come across. i'm just going to add stuff that i personally find useful, so it may or may not be of use to anyone else, but this is where it will all go. Very active forum here as well as interviews, tutorials, etc http://www.xsibase.com Ridiculous amount of XSI tutorials, links, etc. here http://edharriss.com/ Some good, basic tutorials here. if, unlike me, you are experienced with XSI, skip this one. the english isn't the best but i still thought they were good. http://www.evermotion.org/?unfold=tutorials Excellent tutorials on the powerful Toon Shaders by Psyop's Todd Akita http://www.softimage.com/education/Xsi/Sel...m?sorttheme=362 (there are a bunch of tutorials on tecturing on this page as well) Fantastic series of super basic, introductory video tutorials http://www.3dbuzz.com it's kind of a hassle to download them, but WELL worth it in my opinion. i learned a ton from them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest firemind Report post Posted November 20, 2004 Not free, but ridiculously cheap for the amount of content you get: http://www.3dtutorial.com/xsi.php And welldone content too. Stuff to avoid is http://www.mesmer.com/, expensive and crappy IMO. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest igorschmigor Report post Posted November 20, 2004 some more at: http://www.xsifiles.com/ and http://www.highend3d.com/xsi/tutorials/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted November 20, 2004 nice, thanks igor! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted November 22, 2004 the invaluable (but free) dirtmap shader: http://animus.brinkster.net/index.html tutorial on how to use the dirtmap shader, as well as how to set up render passes: http://kiworld.free.fr/html_anglais/dirtmap.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest vectorsnob Report post Posted January 6, 2005 I posted this in another thread...so I'll just copy and paste: (Official Softimage Site) http://www.softimage.com/home/ http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/v4/ http://www.softimage.com/xsinet/ http://www.softimage.com/Community/Xsi/Weblinks/ (Community Sites) http://www.xsibase.com/ http://www.edharriss.com http://archives.itg.uiuc.edu/softimage/xsi/ http://www.highend3d.com/xsi/ http://www.xsifiles.com/ (Forums) http://www.xsibase.com/forum/ http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24 (Users) http://www.claus-figuren.de/ (RCTools) http://animus.brinkster.net/index.html (Dirtmap Shader) http://www.mindthink.de/ (Free tools) http://www.jordibares.co.uk/ (Jordi Bares from The Mill) http://www.starlitestudios.net/ (Character Rigging) http://www.anotherhell.com/ (Modeling) (Companies that use XSI) http://www.xsibase.com/xsilinks/companies.php http://www.psyop.tv/ http://www.mill.co.uk/ http://www.glassworks.co.uk/ http://www.d-kitchen.com/ http://www.buzzimage.com/ http://www.uvphactory.com/ http://www.2000strong.com/ http://www.hornetinc.com/ http://www.giantkillerrobots.com/ http://www.janimation.com/ http://www.thefront.com/ http://www.valvesoftware.com/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest firemind Report post Posted January 7, 2005 Originally posted by Sermon: www.radicalmagazine.com it's in spanish this month, but it's pretty simple, i can read it pretty easily even with my meager 3 years of spanish. the dude says the next one will be in english as well. mostly kind of crappy but there's a basic modelling tutorial in there that might be helpful. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Logan Report post Posted May 14, 2005 (edited) Stuff to avoid is http://www.mesmer.com/, expensive and crappy IMO. 13621[/snapback] yah, but the character modeling dvd tho, i dont think is crap, there are some concepts and moves in it that are pretty good to know, ive only seen that one tho, the others might be pure crap., i know this is broadcast design forum and we're not doing Pixar here, but think its a good thing to watch if you are getting into sub D's. watching someone else work and seeing their methods and tactics is always healthy, especially when you just start hitting really tough blueprints right off the bat, like my dumbass. but if you are in going XSI, you probably are going deeper and more hardcore than ppl who are using C4D, in my opinion. the training dvds and tutorials from softimage are pretty good, hopefully you got them free during that special promotion, i bought it right at the booth when they did the big price drop at SIGGRAPH, that was a good day. EDIT_ this ilooks nice http://www.3d-palace.com Edited May 31, 2005 by Logan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted June 25, 2005 http://www.3dtutorial.com/free_videos.php some free quicktimes on XSI basics. if you know your way around the interface pretty well, not much to see here, but i learned a few things, and the price is certainly right. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted June 28, 2005 http://www.cg-soup.com SORRY IM POSTING WITH CAPS LOCK ON, I'M RENDERING IN AE AND I NEED EVERY CPU CYCLE I CAN GET ANYWAY, NICE TIDBIT-SIZED ARTICLE ON XSI OPTIMIZATION AND SO FORTH THE ALWAYS AMAZING KIM ALDIS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted July 7, 2005 http://www.3ddundee.com/Tutorials/ open directory of some fairly basic video tutorials. FLVs, unfortunately, but the price is right (free). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Logan Report post Posted July 7, 2005 the 5 DVD training kit - production series....RULES, it came free with my bundle. I dont think it is free any longer, but it is really really great. from beginner to advanced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted July 7, 2005 those DVDs really are great. i got them free too- at student pricing, 4.2 foundations w/ the free production set DVDs was actually cheaper than the DVDs themselves bought separately Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ai Report post Posted August 22, 2005 Just found out this: a free plugin that plot a whole particule object could be useful for growing something http://www.cg-soup.com/archives/2005/05/plot_plot_fizz.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SermonOfMockery Report post Posted September 28, 2005 entire character animation book available for free download: http://www.mesmer.com/filebankframe.php?in=Courseware,all Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest satya Report post Posted November 11, 2005 (edited) here are the few more http://www.digitaltutors.com/digital_tutor...als.php?cat=xsi http://www.joncrow.com/tutorials/xsi_tuts/xsi_tuts_index.htm http://roger.rosa.free.fr/resources/html/tutorials.htm http://www.xsiturkiye.com/html/tut_video.html http://www.3d-palace.com/ http://tirad.com/tutorials/xsi.htm satya, india Edited November 11, 2005 by satya Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jan 0 Report post Posted October 15, 2007 New site: http://www.xsidatabase.com/ A ressource for materials, presets, scripts etc for... xsi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jan 0 Report post Posted October 23, 2007 Is anyone left on Xsi ? New addon called motion graphics 2.0 Haven't looked into it. http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?boa...d=33221;start=0 direct links http://217.160.138.15/helge/mt_mg_addon.2.0.Win.zip http://217.160.138.15/helge/mt_mg_2.0_tutorials.zip Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SecondMan 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2007 This one is absolutely massive: about 12 gigs (rough estimate - only 3/4 into the download :-)) worth of videos, all perfectly legal. http://www.vast.ws/resources/xsi/tutorials/tutorials.html Cheers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PMC 0 Report post Posted November 14, 2008 Don't suppose anyone knows if the Todd Akita toon shader ones are stiff online anywhere? They seem to be gone! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
¨mad-z 0 Report post Posted November 14, 2008 Don't suppose anyone knows if the Todd Akita toon shader ones are stiff online anywhere? They seem to be gone! http://www.celshading.com/downloads/index.php?cid=2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PMC 0 Report post Posted November 15, 2008 http://www.celshading.com/downloads/index.php?cid=2 You sir, our my hero for the week. Cheers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites