TD Survival’s Alan Fregtman provides a short tip for creating a dynamic jaw pivot in Softimage, where you can move and use the jaw controller where you like and have it affect the jaw in various ways.
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Workflow Tips for Creating and Grooming Hair in Softimage
TD Survival posts another addition, demonstrating some workflow tips hosted by Luc Girard for working with hair (long and short) and how to groom it, based on production experience from Shed’s delightful IGA commercials.
Blast from the Past, Elastic Reality’s Image Morphing Lives on in Softimage
If you have seen the movie “Willow” you may be familiar with the old Elastic Reality Morpher application, which allowed you to morph between two images by setting some user defined points between the two images. As it turns out from TD Survival’s Alan Fregtman uncovers that MAorpher is actually embedded in Autdoesk’s Softimage.
Driving Maya Fluids With Softimage ICE Particles
Nika Ragua demonstrates how to create a volcanic eruption effect as an example of getting Softimage ICE particles driving a simulation with Autodesk Maya Fluids.
Workflow Tips for Faster Character Enveloping in SoftImage
Miquel Campos and Alan Fregtman provide some workflow tips for speeding up the Character Enveloping process in Softimage showing a quick way to block out skin weighting.
Creating and Rigging a Bike Chain in Softimage
Alan Fregtman demonstrates how to set up and rig a working bike chain in Softimage without any slipping between the gears, chain pieces and rotations, creating a rig that will adjust itself even when it is scaled.
Also posted in 3D, SoftImage
Tagged bike chain rigging tutorial, Creating and Rigging a Bike Chain in Softimage, softaimge bike chain tutorial, softimage gear and chain rig tutorial
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emFlock2 Update Adds Revised Collision and Interactions Between Particles
Eric Mootz provides a little tutorial showing some of the things that have changed in emFlock version 2.33. emFlock 2 for Softimage is a flocking solver that uses separation, alignment, and cohesion as rules for the algorithm.
Also posted in 3D, SoftImage, vfx
Tagged emflock 2 for softimage ICE, emflock2 for softimage, emFlock2 tutorial, emFlock2 Tutorial Some Tips & Tricks, emFlock2 Update Adds Revised Collision and interaction between Particles
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Creating a Gradient WeightMap Controller With Softimage ICE
Alan Fregtman shows how to create a weightmap controller in Softimage which can be useful for driving virtually anything in Softimage.
Creating Custom HDR Environments from a 3D Scene
Ola Madsen with a post looking at creating HDR environment maps from a 3D scene, showing a technique for creating a custom IBL using a chrome ball, in this case using Softimage
Also posted in 3D, SoftImage
Tagged Creating Custom HDR Environments from a 3D Scene, how to make custom HDR environments with a 3D scene, how to make custom IBL HDR environemtns for studio lighting using a 3D scene, how to make custom IBLs using a 3d scene and a chrome ball, rendering HDR environment maps using a chrome ball in 3D scaene
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Creating Snow Simulation Systems in Softimage using SlipstreamVX
Owyn Abram provides an introduction into snow simulation systems that he created, showing a snow falling system, a ground blizzard system, and a foot print system for snow, going over his final year project in studying Bsc Computer Animation at the University of Portsmouth.
