Todd Sheridan Perry

Tech Reviews: Wacom’s Intuos Pro, KeenTools, Nuke 16’s Multishot & Quadspinner’s Gaea

    Wacom’s Intuos Pro Most of my Wacom reviews in the past few years have been about the Cintiqs, since those are the splashier, fancier display...

Tech Reviews: Maxon’s Redshift ’25, RizomUV & Plasticity

Maxon’s Redshift 2025 Maxon has released Redshift 2025.3, which offers some really cool tool improvements and enhancements. For those unfamiliar with Redshift, it is a...

Tech Reviews: Boris FX’s Mocha Pro & Puget Systems Workstations

Boris FX’s Mocha Pro Boris FX released a new version of Mocha Pro back in July. The 2024.5 version has some more-than-bite-sized improvements, which...

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...
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