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Planetside’s Terragen 2
August 11, 2009 – The last time I used Terragen was around a million years ago to create a matte painting background to be the stand in for Oahu. I recently discovered that the Planetside software has come a long wa...
Autodesk’s 3ds Max 2010
August 11, 2009 – A few months ago, Autodesk released Max 2010 with a brand new coat of paint to enter the Vista age, as well as some new features that fortunately have some chops.
The first noticeable change in Ma...
Orbaz’s Particle Flow Tools Box#2
August 11, 2009 – 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 have some remarkable tricks—including a few that were added i...
Luxology’s modo 401
August 11, 2009 – 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 have to offer in the Easter basket they are calling modo 401. I...
Autodesk Toxik
July 24, 2009 – For the purposes of this review, I sat down with an artist who has been using Toxik in production so that I could see how the software dealt with real day-to-day challenges. Autodesk referred me to...
Wacom’s Intuos4
July 24, 2009 – 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, I get to rely on my Wacom tablet a lot. My productivity drops down to that...
3DAliens glu3D
July 24, 2009 – 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 is to make them not so difficult—or at le...
Autodesk Maya 2009
April 01, 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 of its own current slate for products. One of the company’s more recent releas...
MotionBuilder 2009
April 01, 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 to edit data in motion-capture pipelines for both film ef...
SoftimagelXSI 7
April 01, 2009 – 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 piece of software to begin with. A huge list of advan...
