After doing the phone interview with the XSI Product Planning group last week, I got a follow-up email from one of the team leads offering me a free copy of Softimage|XSI Foundation. I’m not an XSI user, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to get a free copy to play with. This afternoon the box showed up at work.
Along with the package was a cool hand-written note from Ronald Beirouti, the Animation and Simulation Team Lead at Softimage.
I honestly don’t know how much I’ll really use XSI. Between Maya and Max, I’ve got enough 3D information to keep track of in my head. However, it’s entirely possible that I might be able to use XSI for something in the future. I know there is an XSI-to-DTS exporter in the works in the GarageGames community and that there is a budding XSI sub-community there (much like the Max and Maya users). Plus, it never hurts to expand my toolset, just in case.
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