Softimage Production Series Training
English
5 DVDs
Softimage Production Series Training DVD #1 - Rendering concepts for XSI
Master XSI rendering technology and achieve optimal rendering performance as well as outstanding image quality with this complete set of fundamental concepts that explain how raytracing internals work.
- Expand your knowledge of the technical relationship between anti-aliasing and motion blur so that you can maximize your render speed without compromising render quality.
- Pre-compute illumination and Final Gathering into textures and significantly improve your rendering speed by fully understanding XSI Render Map technology.
- Achieve award-winning imagery with this extensive overview of the XSI Displacement Map, and improve rendering speed using this complete and thorough explanation of the mental ray? BSP tree.
Main Chapters:
- Anti-aliasing and Adaptive Sampling
- Motion Blur
- BSP Tree
- Displacement Maps
- GPU surface FX
- Render Map - high to low res
- Render Map - Bump Mapping
- Render Map - multiple objects to individual maps
- Render Map - multiple objects to single map
- Optimizing Render map using unique UVs
- Scenes and Documentation
Softimage Production Series Training DVD #2 - Rendering in XSI
Create stunning visual effects and photorealistic rendered images with this complete overview of Render Pass and Render Tree concepts in XSI.
- Learn how to create advanced and outstanding image quality and effects using Render Tree, the shading network tool in XSI.
- Achieve maximum flexibility for your production pipeline using Rendering Passes in XSI to breakup scene content into manageable passes, allowing you to create multiple versions of the same scene while keeping all the information in a single file.
- This extensive overview of Bump Mapping in XSI allows you to achieve realistic Surface looks, and the complete and thorough guide to elliptical filtering in XSI enables you to improve rendering speed.
Main Chapters:
- Render Tree Basics
- Render Tree Techniques
- Creating Effects with the Gradient Shader
- Elliptical Filtering
- Bump Mapping
- Lighting
- Final Gathering
- Render Passes Explained
- Render Passes in Use
- Scenes and Documentation
Softimage Production Series Training DVD #3 - Animation for Production in XSI
Discover how to maximize the power of the non-linear animation tools in XSI by gaining a deeper understanding of the key components found in this cutting edge toolset.
- Gain an understanding of the core concepts of animation in XSI, from the model structure and marking sets to where different forms of animation reside.
- Extend your animation capabilities by learning about how the Animation Mixer enables you to store, retime, reuse and redirect animation in the non-linear animation system in XSI.
- From character setup and character deforms to the components of the Character Development Kit (CDK), learn how to achieve ultimate character control.
Main Chapters:
- Animation structures
- Transformations
- Animation mixing
- Sources and Clips
- Shape animation
- Audio
- Constraints
- Skeletons
- Enveloping
- Character rigs
- Character development kit
- Character deformation
- Setups
Softimage Production Series Training DVD #4 - Modeling and Texturing
Create models faster and more efficiently while maintaining the flexibility to make changes at anytime by mastering the renowned modeling tools and workflow in XSI.
- Learn to work with the component structure and contextual menus that make the modeling architecture and workflow in XSI easy to use.
- Realize and edit your work efficiently by understanding how to use the construction history, topology operators and polygonal modeling in XSI.
- Prepare your models for texturing with the sub-projections and UV Wrapping in XSI and then -layer your textures for a perfect finish.
Main Chapters:
- Selection
- Manipulation
- Components
- General Modeling
- Modifiers and Deforms
- Surfaces and Curves
- Object Tools
- Materials and Textures
- Texture and Layer Editor
- Scenes and Documentation
Softimage Production Series Training DVD #5 - Simulation
Through both introductory and production examples, you will learn how to create stunning effects by using the very extensive and flexible Simulation tools in XSI, including Rigid Body Dynamics, Hair and Particles.
- By covering styling, Dynamics, Shading and Render Optimization in depth, you will become skilled at XSI Hair technology in a very short period of time.
- The core concepts of the new Rigid Body Dynamics in XSI are explained, from basic RBD concepts to detailed RBD rigs, allowing you to create such complex animation as collision, motor and spring.
- This overview of the core concepts of the -Particle System in XSI, which includes useful particle examples, will teach you how to re-create natural phenomena and how to compose elaborate visual effects.
Main Chapters:
- Rigid Body Dynamics: Introduction
- Rigid Body Dynamics: Concepts
- Rigid Body Dynamics Rigs
- Hair Concepts & Workflow
- Hair Examples
- Pipeline Optimization
-Particle Introduction
-Particle Concepts
-Particle Examples
-Scenes and Documentation
Download File Size:9.34 GB
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