Imagina 1997
Im Januar 1997 besuchte ich die Imagine 1997 Konferenz und Messe in Monte Carlo.
Und beim Stöbern in alten Photoalben hab ich nun auch die "Beweisfotos" gefunden.
Softimage 3D Version 3.7 kam raus und Silicon Graphics stellte u.a. die Octane und O2 vor.
Imagina'97 - Silicon Graphics Octane
Imagina'97 - Silicon
https://www.behindtheconsole.com/2025/04/20/imagina-1997/
#VintageComputing #O2 #Octane #SGI #Softimage #VintageComputerLab #VintageComputing #BTC
"The Tides · Of Life"
The creation of the sculpture
Find the full quality videos of the installation also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBd7EiaFUofgeUCavf6GkTwLx0yzj3MTL
#mastoart #art #3dprinting #3d #lamp #PLA #Cura #LED #Rhino #Softimage #XSI #Klipper #Creality #Ender5Plus #projectionmapping #Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #generativeart #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #sounddesign #Zen #wuwei #dao #taichi #chigong #energy #flow
"The Tides · Of Life"
The creation of the sculpture
This video shows how the #sculpture was originally designed as a logo in #Softimage #XSI and rendered in different styles over the years
In 2024 we finally made it into the wall #lamp it always was supposed to be by 3D-printing it in four pieces on a #Creality #Ender 5 Plus
Learn more about the project on our website:
https://urbanflow.art/en/the-tides
#3dprinting #3d #mastoart #livingpainting #creativecoding #sounddesign #taichi #chigong #energy
Genuary 2025 Day 19: "Oops Art."
"The inbound Stream of Dreams"
So today I'll cheat and post one of my favourite images ever.
A sculpture I modelled long ago in Softimage XSI with subdivision surfaces and then tried to UV-unwrap generatively...
...which went beautifully wrong, the checkerboard grid was deformed into a fantastic pattern.
I have this hanging on my wall as a large print.
#Genuary #Genuary2025 #Genuary19 #Day19 #Softimage #XSI #3D #MastoArt #BlackAndWhite #sculpture #Flow #UV
The Story of Franz K (1993) [3 min] by Chris Landreth | #USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAR96de3t2Y
#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Softimage #NCSC #Strange #Creepy #ISEA #InternationalSymposiumOnElectronicArt
Many criticize the fact that #Blender wants to do too many things in one application, but there was also #Softimage which did everything in a single application and I think this is a great thing, I don't agree with those who think it should only do one thing, I prefer that the application gives you the tools for every use case.#b3d #Blender3d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCBfytw_Fo
When I see this interface of #Softimage, I think that it was years ahead of the competition, but I also notice that #Blender was inspired by this application, I believe that #Blender3d is the natural heir.
Old #XSI developers where are now? They could help the community #b3d
Computer Graphics veterans share their memories of #Softimage founder Daniel Langlois #VFX #CG #ComputerGraphics #ComputerAnimation
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/softimage-founder-daniel-langlois-1235715129/
Op het Caraïbische eiland Dominica zijn de verkoolde lichamen gevonden van een vermiste Canadese tech-miljonair en zijn partner. De stoffelijke resten van Daniel Langlois (66) en zijn vrouw Dominique Marchand zaten in een uitgebrande wagen. De politie pakte volgens de Canadese openbare omroep ‘CBC’ vier mensen op, onder wie de buren van het koppel, met wie ze al jaren ruzie hadden over een toegangsweg.
Truly tragic news. Seems Softimage cofounder Daniel Langlois was found dead #CGI #Animation #ComputerGraphics #ComputerAnimation #VFX #Softimage
#Softimage /ˌsɒftɪˈmɑːʒ/ founder Daniel #Langlois found dead in Dominica. This is shocking to everyone in #ComputerGraphics.
«Four people are in police custody after #Quebec businessman #DanielLanglois and his partner #DominiqueMarchand were found dead in the #Caribbean nation of #Dominica on Friday.
The #DanielLangloisFoundation, a philanthropic foundation created by Langlois, confirmed the two deaths, saying the founder of #film #software company #Softimage and his partner died "in tragic circumstances'' near the resort they owned.»
I've been on a trip down the memory lane with the early versions of #Softimage #XSI and how cool I thought the whole package was when I used to aspire to be a CGI artist one day. One thing I noticed in later releases is the 3D cube gizmo that was added after the Autodesk acquisition. If I were to guess this was a request from the top level execs and was meant to show that XSI became a part of the Autodesk family, even though it's completely out of the fashion with the rest of the UI. Ugly af...
"The inbound Stream of Dreams"
The third one in the series, the same sculpture again, but this time a happy accident happened in Softimage XSIs UV Editor... 🙂
Love it, although a friend said it gives him eye-cancer... 😂
I have it hanging on my office wall in 1m square for a decade...
Another incarnation of the sculpture I posted yesterday.
This time rendered with a special C++ camera shader I developed for Mental Ray in Softimage XSI many years ago.
It allows to displace the camera rays with for instance a fractal noise like in this case.
For all my (3D) life I loved NPR rendering styles and this is one of the best results I got.
Love it! 🙂
#Softimage #XSI #MentalRay #Sculpture #painting #NPR #MastoArt #Design
buried in the crypts of reddit: #3d animator/modeller jeremy engleman posted this stunning unused render of a lagoon from cyan's #Riven
modeled and rendered with #softimage 3.51.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecgi/comments/wxkcy9/riven_lagoon_jeremy_engleman_1997_softimage_351/
#introduction My name is Andi, London based VFX artist, with a hankering to be more social in a more socially positive environment. I don't yet fully understand what's possible on mastodon, nor how to do simple stuff like follow a hashtag. When I work that out I'll probably start by following stuff like:
#cgi
#houdini
#softimage
#vfx
#art
#film
#tv
#popularscience
#neuroscience
#dogsofmastodon
#politics
#news
#motorcycles
cheers!
It's been 7 years since the final release of #Softimage #XSI. Really wish I had a perpetual license of it. #vfx
