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In 2011 SP1, there are three new commands to get Face Robot lip sync data out into your own tools. One of them doesn’t even require the use of Face Robot and calls the speech recognition library directly

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 [...]

When I wrote the first article, I hadn’t planned on writing a sequel, but a couple of people on XSIBase asked me to look into how I could extend the Soft IK system to work with a stretchy bone chain.
Initially, figuring out how this could work seems like a pretty tricky problem. The bone [...]

When an IK chain extends towards its full length, it will tend to snap into it’s final position. To prevent this from happening, it is possible to give the appearance that the IK chain is stiffening as it extends towards it’s full length. This technique isn’t new and similar functionality is already implemented in Cinema [...]

How to use a curve to roll something along its edges.