Source Creature Rigging (XSI)

Creature Rigging with Softimage|XSI®, part of the Noesis Interactive™ MOD Your World™ training series, teaches you how to “Structure Your Character” by demonstrating techniques used by professional rigging artists.
Working in Softimage|XSI®, you’ll start with the basics of bones, joints, and hierarchies as you set up an animation rig for a biped skeleton character. Then learn how to create a shadow rig and envelope the character model to it. Next, you’ll see the character guides and rigs that are already included in Softimage|XSI® and learn how to modify them to fit your own needs. Finally, you’ll go through the entire process of creating a skeletal rig for a quadruped dragon character, ready to export to the Source™ engine.

DVD topics covered include:

• Overview of a Rig
  
• Creating basic skeletons and controls
  
• Applying constraints
  
• Mesh Deformation
  
• Shadow Rigs
  
• Enveloping / Weighting
  
• XSI Guides and Rigs
  
• Advanced Creature Techniques
  

The latest version of DivX (6.8+) is required to view this tutorial. It can be downloaded here

GETTING STARTED SKELETONS CONSTRAINTS & RIGS MESH DEFORMATION	SHADOW RIG ENVELOPING GUIDES & RIGS CREATURE RIGGING CONCLUSION

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