Softimage 3^rd-Party Partners

Developer Program

The Softimage Developer Program is an annual membership program for 3rd party developers wishing to create products for the Softimage user base.

To join, contact sidevprogram@softimage.com.

Launched in 2001, boujou (boo-zhoo) was the first fully automated camera calibration and tracking system. Using advanced adaptive algorithms developed from vision science research, the application removes previous limitations on what is achievable in effects production by allowing 3D professionals to derive complex camera tracks and calibration data from film and video material automatically without the need for manual tracking input.

There are now three products in the boujou family, boujou 4, boujou silver bullet and boujou bullet SD.

For more information, visit www.2d3.com

EnFuzion for Render Farms is an industrial strength render farm management software. EnFuzion runs on all major 64-bit and 32-bit hardware, and it supports XSI on Windows® and Linux® platforms.

For more information, visit www.axceleon.com/3d

Since 2000, Di-O-Matic, Inc. has developed high-end character animation software. Di-O-Matic believes that character animation should be easy and fun. Hence the company’s tools are designed to bring efficient character setups into client workflow. Di-O-Matic technologies are behind your favourite CG Characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Sponge Bob square pants, Batman, Spiderman and any more. Di-O-Matic clients include Activision, Boeing, Blur Studio, Blizzard, Capcom, Disney, RockStar Games, Virgin Lands, Snowblind Studios, SEGA and Ubisoft.

For more information, visit www.di-o-matic.com

X-Dof is an expert depth-of-field solution, production proven, and fully optimized for high-end CG creation. The simulation features a complex bokeh rendition, running at an unmatched speed and providing coherent output even under the most extreme conditions.

For more information, visit www.evasion3d.com

Frantic Films® Software serves the high-end needs of the VFX and CG communities through both Deadline™, the ultra-reliable network render queue, and Flood™, the state-of-the-art level set-based fluid simulator."

For more information, visit software.franticfilms.com

Graphic Primitives, is focused on software for the visual effects and computer animation industry. XSIMan acts as an easy to use and full featured interface between Softimage's XSI and RenderMan.

For more information, visit http://www.graphicprimitives.com/

IKTRIX Impulse is an exciting new tool that offers a complete Pre-Visualization and Motion Control solution for directors, graphics artists, and motion control operators. It is integrated with leading 3D computer graphics packages, and it produces camera moves that are ready-to-run on Mark Roberts rigs.

For more information, visit www.iktrix.com

MindThink.de founded by Helge Mathee is one of the few developers in the field of special topology editing. Typical services are development of custom tools, creation of special solutions for clients and conversion of polygonal or nurbs data to nearly every kind of format (including development of custom importers, exporters).

For more information, visit www.mindthink.de

Motion Analysis Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of high performance video/computer-based instrumentation systems that test and measure the movement of objects. Our systems combine proprietary hardware, software, and electro-optical techniques with standard computer and video hardware. These systems evaluate motion in a wide variety of applications: Animation Production, Movement Analysis, and Industrial Measurement & Control.

For more information, visit www.motionanalysis.com

Next Limit is a Spanish company working in the field of 3D computer graphics software. Founded in 1998, the company has brought three innovative products to the market: RealFlow fluid simulator, RealWave wave simulator, and FlowTracer fluid shader. RealFlow was recently distinguished with the 2001 Computer Graphics World Innovation Award.

A plug-in is available in order to import RealFlow meshes into SOFTIMAGE|XSI and to export animation information back to RealFlow.

For more information, visit www.nextlimit.com

Okino's PolyTrans has long been the industry choice for professional 3D file format translation and is used throughout the world by thousands of notable companies. PolyTrans is an indispensable tool used for any task requiring manipulation, viewing or conversion of 3D models and scenes.

PolyTrans-for-XSI breaks down all previous data translation barriers and truly makes SOFTIMAGE|XSI a universally open software package.

For more information, visit www.okino.com

Parallels, an SWsoft company, provides innovative desktop and server virtualization software for Windows, the Macintosh, and Linux. Recently ranked #6 on PC World's "100 Best Products of 2007" list and already used by more than half a million people worldwide, Parallels virtualization technology is revolutionizing the way we use computers.

For more information, visit www.parallels.com

Founded in 2002, Pipelinefx, produces the most powerful enterprise renderfarm management software (RMS) available. Optimizing the investment in renderfarms and assuring that artists can to more in the same amount of time are the main benefits derived from using the company’s proven next-generation solution. Pipelinefx is located in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, strategically placed between the entertainment centers of North America and the Asian Pacific.

For more information, visit www.pipelinefx.com

Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System, is an award- winning tool that tracks and manages software development for enterprises large and small. Perforce is easy to install, learn and administer; seamlessly handles distributed development, and supports developers across more than 50 operating systems.

For more information, visit www.perforce.com

The Pixel Farm was formed in 2002 to provide innovative solutions for digital composting. Based in the UK, with a very strong focus on research and development, The Pixel Farm work with customers on key projects to ensure PF products match the needs of the production environment.

PFTrack™, a revolutionary 3D camera match-moving application based on core technology developed by Manchester University’s Advanced Interfaces Group, provides a suite of state of the art tools to exactly match Computer Generated content with film or video footage of any resolution.

For more information, visit www.thepixelfarm.co.uk

ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) automatically adds more natural-looking motion blur to a sequence. Our tracking technology is at the heart of ReelSmart Motion Blur, so there is no handwork involved. Of course you can add as little or as much blurring as you need and even remove motion blur! Finally, you can create very interesting effects by blurring one sequence by using the motion from another. RSMB also allows you to blur with motion vectors generated via a Mental Ray shader. The same motion estimation technology is used in Twixtor for XSI, to slow down or speed up with superior results your image sequences.

For more information, visit www.revisionfx.com

Right Hemisphere® creates 3D graphic production solutions offering enhanced quality and overall lower costs for 3D professionals involved in games development, film and broadcast, web content creation and industrial design.

• Deep Paint 3D® provides 3D artists with an intuitive, easy to use tool to paint and texture 3D models interactively in 3D.
• Deep UV™ is a breakthrough in UV mapping technology. It offers a superior application for the creation and modification of UV mapping within an interactive 2D and 3D UV mapping environment.
• Deep Exploration™ provides easy navigation tools that let you search and view your 2D graphics and 3D models.

For more information, visit www.righthemisphere.com

REALVIZ® MatchMover® 2 is the way to track 3D camera data and object motion from video or film sequences quickly and accurately. Export this information to the 3D animation package of your choice and create scenes that seamlessly integrate 3D objects into your footage. MatchMover 2® eliminates manually positioning cameras and objects by tedious trial and error and can solve difficult shots such as pans, zooms and shaky hand-held footage without any additional information about the camera or measurements of the scene.

For more information, visit www.realviz.com

Simartom is focused on developing L-System based modeling tools. Their product, T-Gen, is the first tree and plant generator plugin fully integrated into the XSI architecture. It provides a flexible, customizable and easy to use solution for creating growing trees, plants and even abstract objects.

For more information visit www.simartom.com

Syflex LLC was founded early 2002, with the exclusive objective of providing the most advanced cloth simulation technologies.

Syflex cloth simulator enables the quick and easy animation of clothes directly inside SOFTIMAGE|XSI.
Syflex is the latest technology in cloth simulation. Its main characteristic is its incredible speed: Syflex is an order of magnitude faster than any other cloth simulator. It also features a perfectly stable and accurate solver, avoiding all unwanted vibrations of the clothes. Syflex is easy to use: seamlessly integrated in XSI, animators can use any polygonal mesh as a cloth, and model any kind of fabric.

For more information, visit www.syflex.biz

Temerity is a software and service provider in the visual effects and digital production industry. Our solutions and products are developed to allow a greater focus on the creative process of bringing ideas to life. We develop tools that automate processes, manage complexity and most of all increase artist productivity.

Our goal at Temerity is to lead the industry in production process engineering and to provide our customers with the most concise, flexible, and specialized software services available.

For more information, visit www.temerity.us

The Graphics Factory is a company that focuses purely on Procedural Texturing and Shading. For nearly ten years we have developed and refined our procedural texturing library to a  point where is has been integrated into a great many renderers. We are now bringing this experience to XSI and introducing Enhance:XSI.   Enhance:XSI contains series of over 200 additional nodes providing the ultimate compliment to XSI's material editor allowing anyone unlimited access to advanced shader and texture creation.  

For more information check out http://www.shaders.co.uk

Virtools is the leader in providing 3D interactive contents development environments. Virtools’ toolset enables game studios and large accounts to prototype, develop and deploy games and highly interactive applications. Virtools’ technology combines the power of integrated development environments (IDE) and marketing/multimedia development platforms, to provide clients with superior, innovative software solutions that fit a broad range of production and trade-specific applications needs.

For more information, visit www.virtools.com

Founded in 2000, Turbo Squid is dedicated to the management and distribution of digital products and other relevant content for 3D and 2D designers and creative professionals. Turbo Squid provides a global market for digital products by enabling individual and corporate users to list, promote and sell their content to users around the world. In 2003, Turbo Squid was named as the exclusive publisher and worldwide distributor for the Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in Program. Turbo Squid is a privately held and venture-backed company.

For more information, visit www.turbosquid.com

Virtual Vertex is a developer of plug-ins for 3D animation software to improve post-production facilities. Muster, a cross-platform distributed renderings management system provides artists with the ability to manage very complex rendering tasks in record breaking times, using all of the available OS present in your render-farm, Windows, Irix and Linux.

For more information, visit www.vvertex.com

vizrt produce innovative software that enables the creation and distribution of rich visual content for broadcast graphics, virtual environments and quantitative visualization and information display across networks that are delivered to different media platforms, including television, interactive television, the Internet, and Wireless Application Protocol.

For more information, visit www.vizrt.com