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Report article Tagging a Rig in Softimage/XSI

This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag a rig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigs so that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data to different 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video game development will find this tutorial very useful.

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This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag a rig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigs so that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data to different 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video game development will find this tutorial very useful.

You will need to get the Free Softimage/XSI 6 MOD Tool to follow this tutorial.


For more video tutorials we recommend you browse them all at the Noesis Profile.

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jeantyu
jeantyu Jan 18 2008, 3:09pm says:

These tutorials are very useful :).

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Noesis_Interactive
Noesis_Interactive Jan 18 2008, 3:58pm replied:

We're very glad to hear it!! That means we're doing our job, lol !!

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SinKing
SinKing Jul 26 2008, 2:16pm says:

Excellent Tutorial! I was aware of this technique as our animator uses it, but I didn't know it went that fast and easy. Will prove helpful with developing our modfilm-project, thanks!

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