101 Scenes & Scripts for Softimage XSI & 3D Digital Creatures.
This free proyect created by the Sintesys Animation School (ATC - Spain) contains a video tutorial and a database with 101 Softimage XSI scripts and scenes for 3D digital creatures and characters.
The scenes contain many types of creatures and behaviours:
Walking Spiders, breathing, blinking, A* pathfinding algorithm used in most videogames, bat wings, dogs, fishes, jumping rabbits, “darts” technique for eye movement, worms, octopus, chamaleons, frogs, humans... up to 101 scenes programmed by the two main methods Softimage XSI has: Scripts and expresions so
you can compare effectivity and workflow.
Sintesys provides this material as initial step of a serie of results of a study in artificial inteligence for digital creatures they are into. From this study a book is also going to be released in October 2005 under the title “Move Animate Act”.
Sintesys was founded as the first Authorized Trainning Center in Spain in 1998 and is the only school in Spain that provides courses on Softimage XSI Object Model Programming & MentalRay shaders for XSI & c++ programming besides Animation, CGI & FX and Videogames.
You can find 101 Scripts proyect at:
http://www.sintesys.net/101scripts/
more info about Sintesys:
www.sintesys.net
