My first 3D design

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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I am onto the 3rd disc (of 4) in Digital Tutors 'Intro to XSI' CD Tutorial. I can honestly say I was so intimidated by the idea of 3D design and graphics as it seemed all so overwhelming. My tune is drastically different. I find it to be very intuitive and just plain easy to do.

I have only begun to scratch the surface; but I believe I just found a new hobby (LIke I need new ones). Here is my space bike 'So far...'

Stay tuned for the finished work soon!

3d9xf.jpg
 
Okay, now can you take that and use it in your nle as a CGI component? That would be cool.

I hope that didn't come out wrong. I think the 3D bike looks great, just wondering if that's where you were headed with it.
 
Blaine said:
Okay, now can you take that and use it in your nle as a CGI component? That would be cool.

I hope that didn't come out wrong. I think the 3D bike looks great, just wondering if that's where you were headed with it.
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It's not done; I'm doing texturing right now. And yeah; it pretty much is going exactly how i need it to; it's fun!

Considering it's my first attempt ever..... Who really knows where I was headed ?

Tks Envision!
 
whoa...

I have never hear of XSI.... it looks that you can doo some pretty good things with it.

and yes...texturing.... Grrrrrr!
 
Very cool John....Very cool I don't even want to think how fast that thing would go, It's like...A jet engine with a seat!!!
 
VERY nice work there John. :thumbsup:

I doub't I could pull anything like that off, and I've been at 3D for 2 years... :embarasse

- Mikko
 
dakotapod said:
From Avid - Arguably one of the top "big gun" progies
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Technically yes, Avid purchased SoftImage. But I don't think Avid had to much to do with the development of SoftImage 3D|XSI|Digital Studio...

John, what training CD's do you have and where did you get them?
 
oh man! thats great all I managed to do was this earth tutorial:

MyEARTH.jpg


hehe, now how do I blow it up :) !

(Done in 3Ds Max 7)


Anhar
 
Man, that's impressive John. I've never been able to learn anything from tutorials, which is why i don't know much.

Seriously, good work. I think 3d is the most mind bending work out there, except for astro pyshics...I sent those tutorials back. :)
 
Thanks guys

I'm stuck on one part though; texturing layer adjustments. Something isnt jiving so Im questing for an answer
 
Wow, that's impressive. I spent months trying to learn 3D Studio Max and never quite "got it." I'm going to switch to XSI, I think.

My friend's an XSI whiz but I won't see him for a couple weeks but I'll ask if I do see him before then or if he ever gets around to sending me the XSI manual (250mb pdf, I think). The texturing set up looks pretty complex but he loves it, so maybe there's some method to its madness, but I sure don't have any idea.
 
The issue I am having is:

1. I select PROPERTY < TEXTURE MAP < XY

..at first I was getting the imagery on the model that looks like this:

Then, I would select the GREEN BOX and suddenly the TEXTURE MAP THINGY would disapear. In the tutorial it does not dissapear so I got stuck sitting there trying to figure out a hundred ways to make iut come back again.....

richagain9vm.jpg


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But wait, theres more

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Now, even after all that I am not even getting the TEXTURE MAP image to show up on the bike at all.

Am I missing some setting that would prevent it from being shown? T

This is my current issue
 
Great work John XSI is a very powerful tool...good luck.
Also the foundation version of XSI is very resonably priced.
XSI originally another great Canadian piece of software ;)

Here a still from a project I did last year for Discovery Channel.
Done in Maya 5.
 
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