Todd Sheridan Perry

Unwrella

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I really hate setting up UVs. I'd rather have bamboo shoved under my fingernails and...

Craft Director Studio

Years ago, I took a look at Craft Animations' rigs when it was exclusive to 3ds Max, and found it to be indispensable not...

Pixologic’s ZBrush 3.5

I have to admit that I only became familiar with ZBrush last year despite its excellent initial reputation as a hobbyist's tool. The well-designed...

ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy By Scott Spencer (Sybex Books, 416 pages)

To celebrate the arrival of my newly found friend, ZBrush 3.5, I picked up the new book: ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy by the...

StudioGPU’s MachStudio Pro

As many have pointed out in recent months, expectations for speed in the 3D community have reached a breaking point. However, some companies are...

Autodesk Maya 2010

Back around SIGGRAPH this year, which in CG time is a LONG time ago, Autodesk released Maya 2010 with a plethora of other Autodesk...

Unity 3D’s Unity iPhone

You know the iPhone app. phenom has reached its tipping point when even the Louvre Museum has jumped on the bandwagon. Meanwhile, I think...

Autodesk’s 3ds Max 2010

A few months ago, Autodesk released Max 2010 with a brand new coat of paint to enter the Vista age, as well as some...

Orbaz’s Particle Flow Tools Box#2

Particle Flow, for those outside of the loop, is the quite powerful particle system within 3ds Max. It's not quite Houdini, but it does...

Luxology’s modo 401

Luxology is seriously out of control! I'm going to recommend that you go visit their website to check out all the colorful candy they...

Autodesk Toxik

For the purposes of this review, I sat down with an artist who has been using Toxik in production so that I could see...

Wacom’s Intuos4

I know I've said this many times before, but seriously, folks: I love my Wacom. For what I do in the visual effects world,...

3DAliens glu3D

Fluids are difficult! Just ask anyone'scientists, physics students, crabbers in the Bering Sea will all agree. In 3D animation and visual effects, the goal...

Autodesk Maya 2009

This past year was a very busy period for Autodesk, which has added a few new jewels to its crown while keeping on top...

MotionBuilder 2009

MotionBuilder 2009 is a new version of an Autodesk 3D tool which focuses exclusively on animation and all things animated. It is often used...

SoftimagelXSI 7

Softimage's latest release of XSI is leaps and bounds beyond the previous one'which is saying a lot since XSI was already an extremely powerful...

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 (CS4)

You can't really discuss any one component from Adobe without discussing the entire suite and how the programs work together. However, we can only...

Luxology’s modo 302

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm constantly writing reviews of modo. But that's because the talented team at Luxology keeps coming up with...

Alienware Area-51 m15x

I've been reading that the new Alienware Area-51 m15x is a gaming machine. Sure, it's great at games, pushing through high polycount mayhem at...

Autodesk 3ds Max 2009

I'm not sure when Autodesk is ever going to pull the trigger and just marry Maya and Max together; probably because the marriage is...
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