Autodesk Softimage 2011

Autodesk, Inc. - is the world's largest supplier of software (CAD) systems for industrial and civil construction, engineering, market and media and entertainment. Autodesk Softimage, or simply Softimage (formerly as Softimage | XSI) - a fully functional three-dimensional graphics editor that includes the possibility of 3D modeling and computer animation. This software is mainly used to create movies, video games, as well as in the advertising industry to create characters, objects and environments.

The main features of Autodesk Softimage:

- CE (Interactive Creative Environment)
interactive creative environment - a visual interface for the empowerment program and quickly create procedural effects by using data flow diagrams, based on nodes.
- Support for 64-bit multi-threaded architecture
- Support for COLLADA format
- Tools for creating a skeleton and character animation
- Non-linear animation with the Animation Mixer - a tool that allows users to mix animation clips, and layers in the same manner as is done in a non-linear video editing software.
- Shading and texturing
- Rendering and Camera - among the most complete 3D-software integration with visualization mental ray, support for batch rendering and visualization from the command line
- Simulating physical interactions between geometry and particle dynamics, a module for creating hair and fur (based on Shave and a Haircut) and simulated tissue (Syflex).

Major improvements in Autodesk SoftImage 2011:

Interactive environment for ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) controls the movement and behavior of characters and scene elements. It supports the creation of such components snap as atypical inverse kinematics, rotation, dependence and dynamic parts of the body.
- Automated creation of facial animation synchronized with speech, the module Face Robot.
Facial animation is created on the basis of audio files.
- Up to 100 new components of the ICE
New components of ICE, you can easily create many different effects.


Autodesk Softimage makes available to digital artists an intuitive non-destructive procedure to create impressive animations and effects. Faster and more convenient procedures are carried out obtaining modeling effects, formation of rigging the characters and lip sync in the conversation.

System Requirements:

For 32-bit Autodesk Softimage

• Microsoft® Windows 7, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2) operating systems
• Intel® Pentium® D processor workstation (Intel® or AMD® dual quad core processor recomended)
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® 1.5 (2.0 and higher recommended) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on vendor's site
• DirectX® 9.0c application programming interface and higher (recommended for advanced features of DirectX® 9 application programming interface)
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1 GB free hard drive space (Setup requires additional temporary disk space during installation.)
• 1280 x 1024 screen resolution
• TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
• Three-button mouse
• A web browser to view HTML documentation
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.5 web browser or later (to use Net View tool)
• Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
• DVD drive to install software or browse media from Softimage

For 64-bit Autodesk Softimage

• Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP2), or Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP3 or higher)

or

• Softimage for Linux® with Fedora® Core 11 operating system (Recommended Linux Distribution)
• Intel Pentium D (Intel or AMD dual quad core processor recommended)
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (2.0 and higher recommended) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on vendor's site
• DirectX 9.0c and higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 application programming interface)
• 1 GB free hard drive space (Setup requires additional temporary disk space during installation.)
• TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
• 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 1280 x 1024 screen resolution
• Three-button mouse
• A web browser to view HTML documentation
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later (to use Net View tool)
• Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
• DVD drive to install software or browse media from Softimage