XSI resources

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

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.

[Guest firemind]

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.

[Guest igorschmigor]

some more at:

 

http://www.xsifiles.com/

 

and

 

http://www.highend3d.com/xsi/tutorials/

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

nice, thanks igor!

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

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

[Guest vectorsnob]

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/

[Guest firemind]

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.

[Guest Logan]

Stuff to avoid is http://www.mesmer.com/, expensive and crappy IMO.

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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

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

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.

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

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

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

http://www.3ddundee.com/Tutorials/

 

open directory of some fairly basic video tutorials. FLVs, unfortunately, but the price is right (free).

[Guest Logan]

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.

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

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

[Guest ai]

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

[Guest SermonOfMockery]

entire character animation book available for free download:

 

http://www.mesmer.com/filebankframe.php?in=Courseware,all

[Guest satya]

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

[jan 0]

New site:

 

http://www.xsidatabase.com/

 

A ressource for materials, presets, scripts etc for... xsi

[jan 0]

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

[SecondMan 0]

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.

[PMC 0]

Don't suppose anyone knows if the Todd Akita toon shader ones are stiff online anywhere? They seem to be gone!

[¨mad-z 0]

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

[PMC 0]

http://www.celshading.com/downloads/index.php?cid=2

 

You sir, our my hero for the week. Cheers!