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Tech Reviews: PolyCloth ClothBrush and Atoms Crowd

Todd Sheridan Perry - October 16, 2020

PolyCloth ClothBrush for 3ds Max Sometimes, it’s not the big pieces of software that bring me the most joy. Sometimes, it’s simply a little tool...

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Sept. Tech Reviews: Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition, Foundry Flix 6.3 & Silhouette Paint for Nuke

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 27, 2020

Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition Of all of the newer laptop/mobile workstations that have recently come out with the latest RTX card, the Razer Blade...

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Tech Reviews: Unreal 4.25, Brushify, World Creator 2, V-Ray 5

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 27, 2020

Unreal 4.25 Over the past six weeks, I have been involved with a fellowship program at Epic Games to do a deep dive into Unreal...

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Tech Reviews: iZotope’s Dialogue Match, RX7 & Neutron 3

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 27, 2020

iZotope Dialogue Match Every couple of years or so, I have to remember that half of a movie is sound -- especially for animation and...

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April Tech Reviews: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, HP ZBook 17G6

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 10, 2020

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Over the past year, I’ve taken a look at laptops that have incorporated the Nvidia RTX line of graphics cards,...

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Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Katana 3.2 and Mari 4.6

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 21, 2020

Foundry’s Katana 3.2 I’m not sure how long it has been since I first reviewed Katana. I suspect it was in its formative years, when...

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Tech Reviews: Acer ConceptD 5 Pro, LIFTiD Neurostimulation

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 21, 2020

Acer ConceptD 5 Pro I’m typing this review on the Acer ConceptD 5 Pro laptop with a Quadro RTX 3000 with 6GB of RAM inside....

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December Tech Reviews: Nuke 12, Cartoon Animator 4, Ziva 1.7

Todd Sheridan Perry - November 4, 2019

Foundry’s Nuke 12 Last month, Foundry released version 12 of their flagship, Nuke. And there is some pretty groovy stuff in it. So, with minimal...

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Tech Reviews: November 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - October 8, 2019

Wacom’s Cintiq 22 Wacom keeps makin’ things, and I just keep lovin’ ’em. The latest Cintiq 22 is the “prosumer” version of the Cintiq Pro...

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Putting the Razer Blade 15 Gaming Laptop’s RTX Tech to the Test

Todd Sheridan Perry - June 7, 2019

Since the announcement of the RTX technology back in SIGGRAPH of 2018, the graphics world has been turned on its head. There are people...

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May ‘19 Tech Reviews: Titan RTX, Maya 2019 & Modo 13

Todd Sheridan Perry - May 1, 2019

Nvidia’s Titan RTX Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...

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April Tech Reviews

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 5, 2019

Wacom’s Cintiq 16 What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions? Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...

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Tech Reviews February 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 7, 2019

V-Ray for Unreal Last year, Chaos Group announced its development of V-Ray for Unreal. This year, after a brief Beta period, they made it happen....

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The Top Tech Tools and Trends of 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 24, 2018

We are back again with a recap of the best tech of 2018. As always, some things are new, some have been around, and...

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Tech Reviews November 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Creation Effects A growing trend in visual effects these days is buying pre-packaged recipes for software that you can then crack open and manipulate to...

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Tech Reviews January 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite 15 What is with the releases that have so many new bells and whistles that I can’t even cover a fraction...

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Tech Reviews December 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Adobe Characterizer This past September, Adobe revealed details on the new features that will be added to its Creative Cloud software suite by year’s end....

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Tech Reviews September-October 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 3, 2018

Nukeygara’s Akeytsu I’ve watched the team at Lyon-based Nukeygara develop its product Akeytsu for the past few SIGGRAPH confabs — at least all the way...

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