New project on the go! Agusta 139

Finally got around to starting a new project, this time a Agusta 139 helicopter.  Just working on the overall shape at the moment!

Mini Digger Done!

The little mini digger all done! 

Kabuta Mini Digger Animation from Paul Donaghy on Vimeo.

Digger rigging nearly there

Just about got the mini digger all but rigged now. Just got the tracks to do next and finish the texturing.


Animation test digger XSI from Paul Donaghy on Vimeo.

Mini Digger

Another project on the go! things are pretty much moving with the modeling side of life with this one. Won't be long before the work starts on rigging the excavating arm and the pipework. Its going to be a fun one!

Tiltrotor project

Just about finished the model Tiltrotor and its ready for the animation i've been planning. Just got a little bit more work to do on the crew and other odds and ends, then its ready to start planning the flight scenes.

Autodesk Buys Softimage

Well i think you can say this came as a big suprise for all of us. Not sure how i feel about this really but surely Autodesk owning 3dMax, Maya and XSI cannot be a good thing for the industry.

I suppose only time will tell but i have concerns to say the least. I love using XSI and hope it continues as a innovative cutting edge product, and above all i hope autodesk do not get greedy and raise the price too much.

My thoughts go out to the Softimage employees and i hope that they keep ther jobs and continue developing the best 3d application around!

New videos

Just posted a couple of videos doing some rigging in XSI.


XSI Rigging an Aircraft from Paul Donaghy on Vimeo.



Rigging a piston in XSi from Paul Donaghy on Vimeo.