{"id":66,"date":"2008-07-08T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemshutdown.com\/wp\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-07-08T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T05:52:14","slug":"softimages-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/softimages-ice","title":{"rendered":"Softimage&#8217;s ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ICE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softimage.com\/products\/xsi\/ice\/default.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softimage.com\/products\/xsi\/about\/imgs\/hoodie_ice.jpg\" alt=\"Softimage\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Softimage has introduced ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) in XSI 7.  Taking strong cues from Houdini&#8217;s procedural workflow, ICE finally brings XSI a particle system and <a title=\"ICE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softimage.com\/products\/xsi\/ice\/default.aspx\">much much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what the general public thinks, there is a LOT that can be done on a 3D production that does not require a programmer.  Using node networks, we are attempting to keep it that way.  However, this doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t some serious logic puzzles to figure out, it just means that the keyboard and typos are less prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a 3D professional that is curious or if you&#8217;re a newb that wants to see a slick way produce do 3D effects, please take a look at <a title=\"XSI 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softimage.com\/products\/xsi\/default.aspx\">Softimage&#8217;s XSI 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; = UPDATE =-<\/p>\n<p>The Softimage community website has a list of <a title=\"ICE example vids\" href=\"http:\/\/community.softimage.com\/showthread.php?t=1964\">videos with some jaw dropping examples<\/a> of how ICE is being used. You can dissect the IK solver? Uugh&#8230; geek heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softimage has introduced ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) in XSI 7. Taking strong cues from Houdini&#8217;s procedural workflow, ICE finally brings XSI a particle system and much much more. Despite what the general public thinks, there is a LOT that can be done on a 3D production that does not require a programmer. Using node networks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15,69,127,154],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-sci-fi","tag-3d","tag-houdini","tag-software","tag-xsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}