Hi, there - At least Digital tutors still has rigging tutorials for Softimage / XSI. I think there is one unofficial Softimage forum that is still active I think. Other than that, hand rigging link you posted is pretty typical and well executed demo) of overall control, where rotation of bones is driven by control objects,…
There is the original set of tutorials that came with softimage 1.0 and was updated all the way to 7.5. If you scroll down to Legacy Tutorials you'll see the two pdfs and the work files. I suggest downloading them and saving them for ever because autodesk will eventually delete them. The tutorial you're looking for is in…
https://www.youtube.com/user/AceMastermind1/videos Scroll down past the ICE tutorials and I see at least 70 videos that deal with some advanced rigging of a character along with a few other videos that could be helpful. They look like they would cover the basics of rigging (setting up bones, and doing the weights), along…
I'm not shure if i should be posting this on this particular part of the forum but, yet again, I'm having a really bad time trying to figure out how to do something like a torso or hand rig from scratch, controlled by nulls just like in the videos bellow :: Hand :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783UG-eJgt8…
Unfortunately I can't really afford to pay for Digital Tutors cause, as a student, money isn't really something I have in fair amounts. I found the unofficial forum too if I'm not mistaken http://www.si-community.com/community/index.php I'll look into it! :D