XSI Rigging | Animation Tutorials

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1 Scary Skeletons
"The main advantage of using IK is that it is faster to animate and edit the translation of one effector/IK handle, than to animate and edit the rotation of many joints using FK.
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2 Gimbal Lock Tutorial
The gimbal lock is caused by X and Z axis being in the same order after rotating the Y axis 90/-90 degrees. And this will give you no control over those axis.
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3 Shape Animation Tutorial
Set up controls for "Bernie the Turtle" to get some nice shape animation effects..... The "Stefan Andersson" way!
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4 Character Setup in XSI
Learn how to easily set up your character for animation. The Stefan Andersson way!
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5 Animate Tank Treads with Expressions
Learn to create an expression driven tank transport.
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6 Basic Weight Painting
This tutorial will take you through the basics of weighting, in particular basic weight painting.
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7 Rigging for Moosah and Chub
I knew rigging my Moosah and Chub model would be quite the project, but once I understood some of Softimage XSI's rigging features it went pretty smooth.
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8 Cartoon eyes - animation setup for the mixer, some scripting
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9 Importing a character from SI3D into XSI + Shape Setup
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