Todd Sheridan Perry

Tech Reviews: Best of 2024

A year has gone by, and we are being bludgeoned by a plethora of AI-driven technology. Or tools that say they are using AI...

Tech Reviews: DaVinci Resolve 19, Wacom’s Movink & Silhouette Studio 2024

  Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 19 Color Panels Blackmagic is all about its hardware. Many may think of DaVinci Resolve when they think of Blackmagic, but the...

Tech Reviews: DaVinci Resolve 19, ZBrush for iPad, Nuke 15.1v2

  Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 19 After a protracted beta phase (compared to previous releases), Blackmagic finally released Resolve 19, and as usual, I don’t have...

Tech Reviews: Chaos Vantage, V-Slate, InstaMAT & Creation Effects

Chaos Vantage I’m a little late on the Chaos Vantage story — so much so that I missed the 1.0 release and we are already...

Tech Reviews: Xencelabs’ Pen Display Bundle 16, Mosaic Xplor and Planetside’s Terragen Sky

Xencelabs’ Pen Display Bundle 16 I first got a sneak peek of Xencelabs’ Studio Series 16 display tablet at the FMX confab in Stuttgart, Germany....

Tech Reviews: GeoGen & LiquiGen from JangaFX, tyFlow for 3ds Max

JangaFX’s GeoGen GeoGen is a terrain generator from JangaFX, the scrappy team that brought us EmberGen. Like EmberGen, GeoGen is focused on real-time, GPU-accelerated performance....

Tech Reviews: Foundry’s Nuke 15, Mari 7.0 & Katana 7.0

Foundry’s Nuke 15 Foundry’s latest release of Nuke 15 (and 14.1) presents a slew of new features, which we’ll get into, but first a note...

Tech Reviews: Blackmagic’s URSA Mini Pro 12K, Lenovo’s ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 and Nvidia’s RTX 5000

Blackmagic Design’s URSA Mini Pro 12K Blackmagic Design first released its URSA Mini Pro 12K camera back in the summer of 2020, making a giant...

The Top Tech Tools of 2023

Here we are again, ready for a fresh start after a year of technological progress and humanitarian setbacks. But let's focus on the things...

Tech Reviews: Red Giant by Maxon’s Trapcode, Magic Bullet & VFX

Maxon’s Red Giant Trapcode We continue our exploration of Maxon One’s suite of tools, which we started in last month’s issue. We’ll begin with Trapcode,...

Tech Reviews: Updates to ZBrush, Universe & Xencelabs’ Pen Display 24

Maxon’s ZBrush 2023.2 ZBrush 2023 made its big debut in January this year, but we are now up to 2023.2.2. Let's look at the latest:...

Everything I Learned at SIGGRAPH 2023

Now that SIGGRAPH is a couple of weeks behind us, I have a little more clarity on this event’s whirlwind of activities, panels, parties,...

Tech Reviews – August 2023

Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Last year at SIGGRAPH, I was shown a sneak preview of the Wacom Cintiq Pro 27, and I’ve been looking forward...

Tech Reviews: 3ds Max & Maya 2024, FumeFX 6

3ds Max 2024 Autodesk recently dropped a couple of its flagship media & entertainment products. Both Max and Maya are sporting fancy new features along...

Tech Reviews

***This article originally appeared in the March ’23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 328)*** Foundry’s Mari 6.0 Foundry has been busy working on all of its...

Tech Reviews: Higx Point Render for Nuke, Adobe Creative Cloud 2023 & Adobe Characterizer

***This article originally appeared in the February '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 327)*** Higx Point Render for Nuke Everyone loves smokey, tendrilled and wispy effects....

The Best Tech Trends and Tools of 2022

***This feature originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)*** According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we can expect to experience The...

Tech Reviews: Universal Scene Description, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 and Landscaper for After Effects

Universal Scene Description If you are involved with 3D art at all and haven’t investigated Universal Scene Description (USD), then you are already behind the...

Tech Reviews: Conjuring More Visual Magic with Houdini 19.5

***This article originally appeared in the Sept./Oct. ’22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 323)*** SideFX’s Houdini 19.5 I’m pretty convinced that the amount of stuff that...

Tech Reviews: Maya 2023, 3ds Max 2023, World Creator 3, Nuke 13.2, Unreal Engine 5 and RealityScan

***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 321)*** Maya 2023 Maya 2023 was released with a cavalcade of both major...
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