Archive for June, 2010



Two Undocumented Lip sync commands in Softimage 2011 SP1

June 21st, 2010 by Luc-Eric. Viewed 1370 times.

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

Vintage Softimage – A tribute to Phoenix Tools and Arete

June 4th, 2010 by Stefano Jannuzzo. Viewed 2138 times.

The middle-aged of you will probably remember those names from the 90s.
Phoenix Tools was a plugin company for Softimage 3D, and I was one of the founders. We did good and bad, and we eventually closed down in 2002.
Arete had an excellent reputation for their ocean and atmospheric library, called Digital Nature Tools. I think [...]