SoftImage announce CAT 3.0, XSI 6.5, FaceRobot 1.8

[NMILIOTI]

SoftImage announce CAT 3.0
Check here for what's new.

http://www.softimage.com/products/cat/whats_new.aspx

They also change their site. It is wonderful.

Here is the main link to follow for XSI 6.5

http://www.softimage.com/

Softimage Unveils SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 and SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT 1.8 at SIGGRAPH 2007
Company announces new features, packaging, and pricing for SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 and enhanced game export pipeline in SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT 1.8
Press Release
August 6, 2007 Source: Studio Daily Post your comments below


Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVID), today announced the latest versions of its 3D animation software packages: SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® 6.5 and SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT® 1.8. Softimage also announced plans to repackage its Essentials and Advanced versions of SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 software to meet the specific needs of artists and studios, respectively. The latest version of SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT will offer enhancements for game development pipelines, along with hours of new training material. SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 and SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT 1.8 software are expected to be available Fall 2007, and the company will demonstrate these new products at the SIGGRAPH 2007 convention in San Diego, CA (August 7-9) www.softimage.com/events/sig07 .

New in SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5:
Both SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 Essentials and Advanced software will include more than thirty enhancements that were developed for key customers such as Lionhead Studios , Valve , EA , Animal Logic , Nerdcorps , Pandemic and NCSoft . Some of the new enhancements, which improve production efficiency and meet the specific workflow needs of the game development, visual effects and visualization industries, include:

HDR (high dynamic range) rendermap support;
Additional SDK (Software Developer’s Kit) APIs (Application programming interface);
UV Editing enhancements (2D image data on a 3D model); and
Enhanced audio support.
In addition, each SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 application delivers specific features designed to meet the needs of target customers:

SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 Essentials – equips artists with the features they need to create compelling 3D characters and content for games, film and television. The Essentials version now includes Hair & Fur, and Syflex Cloth capabilities. The price for Essentials will increase to $2,995 USMSRP; maintenance remains unchanged at $799 USMSRP, and upgrades remain unchanged at $999 USMSRP. XSI 6.5 Essentials will only be available to new customers and customers on active maintenance.

SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 XSI Advanced – enables technical directors and studio IT managers to set up and run a creative animation facility with a robust toolset, including everything in the SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 XSI Essentials package, plus Behavior, a crowd and behavioral simulation system, as well as five additional XSI Batch rendering licenses. The price for Advanced will decrease to $4,995 USMSRP and maintenance will decrease to $1333 USMSRP.

Growing Third-Party Developer Community
Since Softimage opened its rendering application programming interface (API) for the SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6 software, the community of third-party developers for SOFTIMAGE|XSI has shown impressive growth. While mental ray® software from mental images® remains the deeply integrated core renderer in XSI software, the open API allows rendering technology partners to develop and integrate their respective render engines with a similar level of integration and control into SOFTIMAGE|XSI software. Several rendering partners who are already evaluating integrating their technology into XSI software have announced – or are expected to announce – shipping products at SIGGRAPH 2007.

SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT 1.8
SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT is an advanced software package that delivers life-like 3D character facial animation for use in games, film and television, and offers greater speed and control than any other commercially available solution. SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT 1.8 will offer specific new features that focus on game development pipeline efficiencies, including:

Crosswalk , MOTOR (motion transfer), Delta Referencing and Animation Layers , all of which are built on the SOFTIMAGE

[Xazax]

I think the face robot is really good extension...but it is not in warez...:(

[NMILIOTI]

Face Robot is too expensive.

SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT Designer is available for $94,995
and is a complete environment to prepare, solve and animate faces. Designer includes the tools to define wrinkles and puffing, place tendons and fine-tune the mouth. It also includes all of the functionality of a seat of Animator. In a typical pipeline, a single seat of Designer is used with several seats of Animator.

SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT Animator is available for $14,995
Animator animates faces prepared using Designer. Animator is a hybrid environment for both keyframe animation and motion capture. It uses a powerful retargeting algorithm that transfers animation and motion capture across faces and offers high-level tuning controls.

It is like the Massive Software in price. So a bit difficult to be in warez.

[hiroguchi_saitou]

Such ridiculous prices....
Did they want to laugh at us (the "average" 3D artist) by setting the price like that? Hope it soon being warezed.

[keks]

Yeah u can dream that this will be warezed... If i see it I would be Amazed!