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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 [...]

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I think this will be the year that 64-bit Windows really takes off.
We’ve getting more 64-bit machines out to developers and testers. The advantages and problems of 64-bit are pretty much the same as two years ago, when I first wrote about the lack of QuickTime support on 64-bit.
32-bit on 64-bit
The first thing you [...]

When dealing with camera projections, which are very helpful for image based modeling, scene layout etc… you sometimes experience some limitations. The camera projection in XSI is not available as a sub-projection, neither can you limit the effect of the camera projection based on surface angle or distance. Another problem are quite weird looking stretches, [...]

Someone asked me if by having the Qwerty Interaction Model in XSI, XSI was beginning to loose its Design Philosophy. I think the answer is no, XSI’s Design Philosophy is not which keyboard shortcuts you use. The Design Philosophy are items such as workflows based on clusters, having all main features visible in [...]