XSIBlog

XSIBlog is Patrick's brainchild. It was born out of his need to immerse himself in the knowledge of others and share whatever he could with the community. Patrick has been working in visual effects since 1999 and through the years has composited on Flint and Shake and done 3D on Softimage|3D, Maya and XSI. Since the beginning of 2002 he works as a pipeline and workflow geek, integrating off the shelf and custom tools in production support roles. LinkedIn Profile

What do all these things have in common?
The weird wirings in my brain. That’s what.
Back to the beginning
At the end of last October Steven Caron sent me a plugin he wrote that allows an XSI user to drag and drop .obj files into the interface and have them import automatically according to settings in a [...]

I’ve just finished moving XSIBlog to a new host. I’m now dealing with the very friendly folks over at WebFaction. During this time I also took it upon myself to move from WordPress 1.5 to WordPress 2.0.5. The upgrade slightly mucked up some posts but I’ve corrected about one fourth of them. If you find [...]

This must be the most stupid piece of code I’ve ever written in Softimage XSI but unfortunately, sometimes I can’t help myself. And, truth be told, some of these wacky possibilities are some of the reasons I prefer Python over other scripting languages for a lot of my work.
A while back I talked about the [...]

Buzz has been working for a little while on a show that required us to create quite a few shots of water surfaces. One of the guys here, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, cooked up a really cool recipe for our water surfaces but to get the look to where he wanted it he was missing a critical [...]

A while ago I posted a Scripted Operator for XSI that generates jittering animation.
Well, a colleague of mine, Etienne Pellerin, and myself are starting to work in C++ in XSI so the Jitter tool was rewritten.
New in Jitter v1.5:

Installation is smoother - just drop it into your favourite Application/Plugins folder
Performance is increased when you have [...]