RE: Coming back from Maya

["Phil Williams" <phil.williams(at)tinopolis.com>]

and www.3dquakers.com too.

 

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Marcus Lee
Sent: 01 February 2008 02:58
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Coming back from Maya

 

and don't forget: www.xsidatabase.com for presets
~Marcus

On Jan 31, 2008 5:09 PM, Jennifer Goldfinch <jgoldfin(at)softimage.com> wrote:

Hi Marco -

 

welcome back to the world of XSI!

 

I saw your comment on training, and I just put this info together for a school that i was presenting to. Here's a list of 3rd party training resources we work with.

 

Digital Tutors - www.digital-tutors.com

§  FREE DVD shipped with every copy of XSI – 6.5 hours

§  Nineteen (19) professional training titles commercially available from $45.99-$69.99 – Lighting, Rendering, Modeling, etc..

§  Over 120 FREE tutorials available on-line

3D Tutorial – www.3dtutorial.com

§  Eighteen (18)  professional titles on production techniques available from $35.00-$49.99

NOESIS Interactive - www.noesisinteractive.com

§  Four (4) titles focused on Gaming, Modding & Character Design with Valve Source engine

I3d Tutorials www.i3dtutorials.com

§  Four (4) professional titles (including Maya to XSI Conversion) available from $9.99-$49.99

§  Six (6) FREE tutorials

Gnomon Workshop - www.thegnomonworkshop.com

§  Two production titles by Aaron Sims on Zbrush & XSI workflow

Various Books & Manuals - See www.softimage.com/education for the full list

 

And of course, Ed Harriss' great site: www.edharriss.com

 

 

Please let me know how things go, if there is anything we can do to help, let me know. You can always email me

at jgoldfin(at)softimage.com if you have any questions, and i'll do my best to help point you in the right direction!

 

Where are you based?

Best Regards,

 

Jennifer Goldfinch

Strategic Relations Manager

Softimage, a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc.

T: 514.840.0387

C: 514.912.0387

F: 514.845.5676

jgoldfin(at)softimage.com

www.softimage.com

 

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Sandy Sutherland
Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 8:47 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Coming back from Maya

Marco - do not worry about it - we have a bunch of guys here who learnt
Maya - and have easily moved across to XSI - some started by using the
'maya' keyboard shortcuts for e.g. so that some of the keyboard was
similar - but have now moved over to the more powerful XSI keys


S.


Marco Vitolini Naldini wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> How to beginn...?
>
> As a user of Softimage|3D from the beginning 90's on,
> I switched after too long waiting for "Sumatra" to Maya 2.5.
>
> Struggeling a long time with this software and always
> pressing the wrong keyboardshortcuts, I dig into it and
> produced some nice animations until now with it.
>
> BUT I never found maya an artist-friendly software and
> often Maya annoys me with it's flaws and workarounds until
> today. AND since I am a generalist (One-Man-Company), my
> brain developed some resistance to finding out why something
> don't work as it should do.
> And since the maintanance-prices keep very high (esp. in Euro)
> while the software became more unstable and less innovative,
> I made the decision to go back to softimage and learn XSI.
> (Ofcourse I took the special deal with XSI-Essentials in
> September to pay the old price ;-) ).
>
> One Week ago I subscribed to this list and I am quite surprised
> how active and gentle the community is. No comparison to the
> maya-lists on highend or aliasListserv.
>
> So, I'm quite exited for touching new grounds (or somehow my
> old ones), but have some fear because I'm 44 years old now and
> learning a new, complex software is probaby not as easy as 18
> years ago.
>
> Probably there is someone on the list, who went a similar way
> (Soft3D ->) Maya -> XSI and can tell me what learning approach
> is best or for what I have to watch out or so.
>
> Hoping I did the right thing,
> best wishes,
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
>

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