Oct 19, 2011

New Series of Training Videos for Basic Skeleton Setup

There just isn't enough information out there freely available for Softimage that deals with Character setup. As a small studio owner, I still make heavy use of the built in rigging tools Softimage provides out of the box, and they are amazingly fast, reliable and responsive. I will make the argument that you can rig and iterate through a full character setup in Softimage faster than any other software on the market using out of the box tools, and a few helper scripts / plugins. The construction history is simple and intuitive to work with. Chain building, although quaint, is still rock solid and very effective at getting me through a majority of my projects. Shape creation and management is so simple, I truly believe one could train monkeys to build shapes in Softimage. Ed Harriss would love that.

In any event the link to my basic skeleton setup videos can be found below. Since I haven't come up with a better way of organizing my videos which tend to run in series on a given topic, I am resigned to using the Vimeo albums as a way of breaking up my topics. That is the best way to view the videos on my page.

Basic skeleton setup in Softimage