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Rigging In XSI Help From Digital Tutors

Digital-Tutors today announced the availability of INTRODUCTION TO RIGGING IN XSI' -- the 21st release in a growing library of interactive educational training for aspiring artists using SOFTIMAGE|XSI, a complete 3D package for modeling, rendering, and character animation.

Digital-Tutors is a SOFTIMAGE official training partner and leader in video-based training for emerging digital artists.

INTRODUCTION TO ANIMATION IN XSI offers nearly seven hours of interactive training for aspiring artists and a comprehensive guide to learning flexible rigging methods, various character setup tools, and the essentials of building animator-friendly controls.

Popular highlights from INTRODUCTION TO RIGGING IN XSI include: XSI rigging tools overview, organizing scenes, working with the schematic, parenting objects, using groups, 2D and 3D bone chain system, IK capabilities, FK capabilities, chain properties, repositioning bones, choosing workable rotation orders, position constraints, orientation constraints, direction constraints, pose constraints, controlling SRT parameters, chain up vector operators, mesh deformation overview, envelopes, enveloping techniques, resetting envelopes, understanding operator stack, editing envelopes, weight paint panel, redistributing weights, weight editor, blending envelope weights, mirroring envelopes, working with shapes, modeling shapes with tweak component tool, secondary shape modeling for corrective shapes, setting up driven key relationships, working with character key sets, and organizing animation data.

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