Hello? Any Blender curious out there

[Steven Caron]

Wow, it's been so long since I posted this list. Not sure anyone is even around to list...

I have been trying to learn Blender and coming from Softimage I am just completely floored that people can get anything done in Blender from a modeling perspective. Anyone here successfully made the switch to modeling in Blender from Softimage and care to share any tips? Links to video tutorials etc?

Thanks,

Steven

[Royston Michaels]

Hi Steven,

Some of us are still lurking around, lol.

Jason did an amazing job creating the XSI Keymap for Blender.

I felt at home working in Blender, without it... Blender doesn't seem usable coming from working in XSI and Maya.

Jason, if you are still around... thanks for your efforts... it's lifesaver moving to Blender.

Have a look here. https://youtu.be/_DvM009LaN4

All the best.

Royston

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[Steven Caron]

Thanks for sharing this looks like it could really help me. If the comments are any indication I am not alone in my struggles 😂

*written with my thumbs

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[Scotty Wilcox]

Hello !

I have successfully moved from XSI to Blender for everything not just modelling. Although the 3D

work I am doing isn't as complex as it used to be. 

The feature I love the most is that Autodesk cannot acquire Blender.

A big hurdle is getting used to the change of the Z axis overall.

I have not used the XSi keymap for Blender so that I can learn the native hotkeys and then be able to follow

tutorials. It took a long long time to adapt. Now on the very rare occasion that I run XSI, I have no idea what

the hotkeys are.

I've found that in XSI you might have a single key for a hotkey where as Blender the functions from hotkeys

work in 'pairs'.

I miss plenty of tools from XSI, but have found equivalent ways to get stuff done in Blender.

I REALLY miss 'dice' .... oh man.... I miss it.....
Oh and that sticky magnetic M key point manipulation thing.....



Anyway, here's my favourite Blender Tutorial creators.

https://www.youtube.com/@CGMatter

https://www.youtube.com/@askNK

https://www.youtube.com/@TheCGEssentials

And of course the most famous tutorial - The Donut 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw&list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8ZsChQVQsuDSjEqdWMAD


Good Luck !

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[Steven Caron]

Thanks Scotty for the links ..

Do you know how to knife (bisect) across multiple objects?

*written with my thumbs

[Scotty Wilcox]

Hi Steven,

No sorry. I doubt that such an operator would work with multiple objects selected.

If I was trying to do that or others....I'd look at this site for addons / plugins...
https://blendermarket.com/

and also search very specifically for that option....which might get some workaround like
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/107358/cutting-multiple-objects

or get ChatGPT to write a python script.....? Maybe.....

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[Steven Caron]

Actually, it works. I think I was having trouble getting two objects to go into edit mode together and the bisect tool always clears your selection after it's done, leading me to a lot of confusion :sweat_smile:

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[Scotty Wilcox]

Hoorah !!!

I learned something !

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[Pierre Schiller]

Hi Steven. I've made the crossover from XSI to Blender.

I even created a whole theme around it for Blender users.

https://github.com/3dcinetv/Softimage_Theme_for_Blender

Mind these are just cosmetic colors, but make life so much easier to work in the viewport.

Currently, I work only with the dark theme for Blender, similar to dark UI from other packages,

but retaining the principles of the XSI theme I designed:
https://github.com/3dcinetv/Blender-V-theme

Incidentally, any complex technical questions about Blender/Softimage, I'd be glad to answer.

I posted a video about SYCLES shaders (Blender cycles shaders working in Softimage).

Welcome to this never ending journey of (good) feature updates in Blender.

 www.3dcinetv.com - 3D.VFX.Post - Click on socials:

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[Steven Caron]

What's funny is I am misremembering being able to do this in Softimage. I just tried and I can't seem to get Soft to do it :facepalm:

But Blender can so that's great!

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[Steven Caron]

Thanks so much for sharing the resources and offering the help Pierre

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[phil harbath]

How about character animation, anyone use it? does it hold a candle to Softimage?

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[Walter Volbers]

Hi,

 

So, I rig and sometimes  animate for three years now ,but still using 90%softimage for rigging/animating!
it's just worlds compared to animate in Softimage where blender is still just "bad"
there are too many steps to achieve something similar in softimage,
both the rigging and the animating,
Blender Pros
animate per symmetry of key poses works wonderfully (provided you followed the R-L terminology)
many rig presets,including ik-fk blend and switch/match position (similar to gear but more advanced than gear was)
Actionsconstraint an animation that you can start by callingtrigger  a value,
constrains only for one axis

curve-modifier
cons
Ui

too many options like constrains local ,world ,customspace, posespace, local with parent ,local space

very confusing at the beginning,

 

animate rigs/bones in the Poseditor 

rig end creating  bones in Edit mode , geometry similarly in the edit mode is modeled in the Objecktmode you can assign deformer ,in the weighteditor you paint weightes 

unbelievably many minest doubles if not even triples many steps compared with softimage.
few characteranimation tutorials still have the feeling that 90% of the userare hobbies,

exceptions prove the rule, https://vagon.io/blog/movies-made-with-blender/#:~:text=interesting%20as%20well!-,1.,the%20winter%20into%20spring%20again.

extra pros
free, 
extra cons

addons addons too many updates

 

softimage
intuitiv
realy Userfriendly animating/rigging
schematic view
solo/view  select fcurve

floating windows
middlemouse button to repeat last command,
quadview clearer,

stack deformer 
nurbs deformer
link with

ghosting animationghosting

set 4 cameraviews so that the position is not lost

the worst for me is the lack of the schematic-view
and the jumping between edit-pose-object-mode
and the selection of function curves
and last but not least hot keys that break the flow because i have to put down the mouse to execute the combination

my short resume

 

Walt

[phil harbath]

thanks, you wouldn't happen to use anything else professionally for character animation,  I would like to get out of Softimage eventually,  I am hoping for a side-grade or close in terms of character animation.  

Phil

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Hi,

 

So, I rig and sometimes and animate for three years,but still using 90%softimage for rigging/animating!

it's just worlds compared to animate in Softimage where blender is still just "bad"

there are too many steps to achieve something similar to softimage,

both the rigging and the animating,
Blender Pros
animate per symmetry of key poses works wonderfully (provided you followed the R-L terminology)
many rig presets,including ik-fk blend and switch/match position (similar to gear but more advanced than gear was)
Actionsconstraint an animation that you can start by callingtrigger  a value,
constrains only for one axis

curve-modifier
cons
Ui

too many options like constrains local ,world ,customspace, posespace, local with parent ,local space

very confusing at the beginning,

 

 

 animate rigs/bones in the Poseditor 

rig end greating bones in Edit mode , geometry similarly in the edit mode is modeled in the Objecktmode you can assign deformer ,in the weighteditor you paint weightes but I there points to selectyou  must go back in Editmode to select the desired points first,

unbelievably many minest doubles if not even triples many steps compared with softimage.
few characteranimation tutorials still have the feeling that 90% of the user
are hobbies,
exceptions prove the rule, https://vagon.io/blog/movies-made-with-blender/#:~:text=interesting%20as%20well!-,1.,the%20winter%20into%20spring%20again.

extra pros
free
extra cons

addons addons too many updates

 

softimage
intuitiv
realy Userfriendly animating/rigging
schematic view
solo/view  select fcurve

floating windows
middlemouse button to repeat last command,
quadview clearer,

stack deformer 
nurbs deformer
link with

ghosting animationghosting

set 4 cameraviews so that the position is not lost

the worst for me is the lack of the schematic-view
and the jumping between edit-pose-object-mode
and the selection of function curves
and last but not least hot keys that break the flow because i have to put down the mouse to execute the combination

my short resume

 

 

Walt

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Hi Phil,

 

Yes, I don't know if I'm still the right consultant,
I've been working with Softimage since 1996, so all the knowledge is limited to that software for now, and it's hard for me to switch when I see how complicated it is in the other software. mega upturn!
And still love it, at least when it comes to rigging and animation.
And at the moment it's all uncertain what will happen in the next few years, keyword AI.
You should at least give Blender a try, maybe it will work,
The videos by Pierrick Picaut are highly recommended in this context
https://www.youtube.com/@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN/videos and his payed video tutorials.
I think if you are a freelancer and want to work in studios, there is no way around Maya.
Modo and C4d, C4d works, Modo I couldn't get to grips with nodetree rigging.
Houdini20 is also interesting, but probably too complex for an all-rounder.

If I were to start with 3D today, I would probably leave it alone.
As I said, I can theoretically work for another 3 years and then retire,
But I won't say no if my company wants to keep me.

 

Walt 

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