New XSI training from 3DQuakers

Char­bel Koueik and his site 3DQuakers have finally released some new train­ing titles for XSI. The first one is called Tech­ni­cal Direc­tor Train­ing, Vol 1 and it is mostly a script­ing tuto­r­ial focus­ing on using Expres­sions, Scripted Oper­a­tors and even Plu­gin devel­op­ment. Another very impor­tant topic is the com­pre­hen­sion and use of vec­tors which I think is a must to under­stand for any­one striv­ing to become a tech­ni­cal director.

The sec­ond one is called Tech­ni­cal Direc­tor Train­ing, Vol 2 (what a sur­prise! ) in which he cov­ers the devel­op­ment of a spring dynamo plugin.

I haven’t had the chance to buy them yet but I just can’t wait to get my hands on these tuto­ri­als. I have bought 3 of his tuto­ri­als for XSI: Rig­ging­Pro for XSI, Script­ing 101 and Auto­matic Rig­ging for XSI and they were some of the best train­ing DVDs I ever bought. Char­bel Koueik has a very good com­mand of what he teaches and it is obvi­ous that it comes through expe­ri­ence, but the best thing about his tuto­ri­als is that although he goes through all the basics, he doesn’t waste time going into every new­bie detail that can quickly become boring.

I have noticed that most of the CG tuto­ri­als avail­able on the mar­ket have a ten­dency to go through every lit­tle but­ton and detail and I some­times catch myself nod­ding away at my desk. I’m sure it’s very use­ful for absolute begin­ners but if you’ve been doi­ing 3D for more than 6 months it quickly becomes a pain.

Char­bel Koueik avoids that! His tuto­ri­als are more tar­geted to the inter­me­di­ate user who is really try­ing to get to grips with the tech­ni­cal side of the soft­ware, script­ing and using automa­tion. He uses jscript mostly in these vol­umes but I’m cer­tain that with his style of explain­ing things thor­oughly you can port these scripts eas­ily to any other script­ing lan­guage. The only real prob­lem is with the licens­ing sys­tem which will only let you use them on one com­puter; the one the license was pur­chased for. So you can for­get about watch­ing it on your lap­top later at night and if you re-format your sys­tem some time in the future you will have to ask for new keys. Nev­er­the­less with all the piracy going on in the inter­net who can blame him?

I highly rec­om­mend all 3DQuaker’s tuto­ri­als for XSI and I’m going to pur­chase them as soon as I can.

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