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

When you start building new tools or a new pipeline you have to answer quite a few artist-centric questions such as what you want these tools to do and how they will fit into the workflow. You also have to answer a few technical questions unless you might wind up in a quagmire consisting of [...]

I’ve finally decided to pipe the site’s RSS Feeds through Feedburner.
Update your subscriptions if you wish. The links can be found in the footer, entries to the left and comments to the right.
Cheers!

When working with XSI in a facility I often use Python modules to better package my code and allow easy reuse of key parts in the different tools that are developed. These modules I usually keep in a location on the main drive of the workstations, for example: C:\<facilityName>\libs\python.
I’ll also put in place a system [...]

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 [...]