Reviews

Is ZBrush 2020 Making Substance Painter Obsolete?

Dec 19, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

ZBrush 2020 brings us a lot of fantastic functional tools least of which is the vast improvement to that little Morph UV button hiding under the UV Map menu. What was once a h.... Read More

Pass the tissues: Returning the Puget System Workstation

Dec 12, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

For some reason, I feel like I'm writing an obituary instead of a follow-up review for the Puget workstation. The computer itself has been flawless and that is the problem. I.... Read More

Review: AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Professional Graphics Card

Dec 06, 2019 at 01:07 pm by -gToon

Over the last decade, the market for home PC’s has seen a sharp decline. The primary reason for this is a massive smartphone and portable device market surge. However,.... Read More

Materialize: a free texture creation tool

Dec 04, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

Materialize is a free and easy to use (yet, very good) tool to create texture channels from a single image. The basic idea is this: you import your diffuse map (also known as.... Read More

Book Review - Stop Motion Filmmaking: The Complete Guide to Fabrication and Animation

Nov 29, 2019 at 09:10 pm by nickcharles

If you've ever considered delving into stop motion filmmaking, or even if you just have a fascination for the craft, you would be hard-pressed to find a more complete and deta.... Read More

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Versus the Puget Workstation

Nov 27, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

This isn't going to be your usual review about gameplay but rather about installing Red Dead Redemption 2 PC (RDR2) on a pc and how it handles it. The gaming news is full of R.... Read More

What about InstaLOD Studio XL, the Heavy Duty Poly Cruncher?

Nov 22, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

A few weeks ago, I was given an opportunity to add InstaLOD Studio XL to my 3D creation pipeline. This is the big brother, standalone version of InstaLOD t.... Read More

Free digital painting on the web: Pixlr Photo Editor

Nov 21, 2019 at 12:00 pm by nemirc

Pixlr Editor is another free tool from Pixlr. While Pixlr X was a simpler, easier to use online photo editing tool, Pixlr Editor is a fully featured online photo editor that i.... Read More

AI Driven Headshot - New Character Creator Plugin

Nov 21, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

Ah… nothing like this time of year and I don't mean the holidays. However, it is an early Christmas for a lot of digital artists out there as our creative products get.... Read More

Free Online Photo Editing with Pixlr X

Nov 14, 2019 at 02:00 pm by nemirc

You have surely noticed we now live in a time when technology has allowed web apps to evolve a lot, and let you do a lot of things you were unable to do only a few years ago..... Read More

Puget Systems Workstation - The First Two Weeks go better than expected

Nov 14, 2019 at 10:41 am by Warlord720

For the past two weeks or so I have been using the Puget system for everyday work from character creation to clothing creation and then checking that work in VR. It has been a.... Read More

Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 in Review

Nov 10, 2019 at 10:15 pm by nickcharles

It's wonderful to have a decent drawing tablet for art and creative work. It's even better to have a large enough surface on which to work and get in finer details, drawing di.... Read More

Amplify Shader Editor for Unity

Nov 08, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

Amplify Shader Editor is a node-based shader creation tool for Unity. Some time ago, I discussed Shaderforge, a tool that became my de-facto shader creation tool, but, after.... Read More

Marvelous Designer 9 Brings New Tools

Nov 07, 2019 at 11:44 am by Warlord720

CLO Virtual Fashion released version 9 of its clothing app, Marvelous Designer (MD9) about a month ago. This update packs in a few new tools that are very promising to improvi.... Read More

Easily create cards or promo material with DesignCap

Nov 05, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

DesignCap is another do-it-yourself web service that lets you create different kinds of promotional or branding material, as well as arts for personal use. You can create thi.... Read More

Puget Systems Workstation - First Use

Oct 31, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

As it always is in life, the Puget System workstation was delivered during a time of travel, changing weather and not enough hours in the day to take the system out of the box.... Read More

Easily join videos with Video Combiner

Oct 30, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

Video Combiner is a small, and free, Windows application that lets you combine multiple video files in one single file. The application is developed by MP3 Toolkit. The sof.... Read More

Review: Free and easy 3d modeling with Dust3D

Oct 16, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

3D modeling has earned a reputation of being difficult, and I am not going to say it is easy, because it's not. However, every now and then, there's a new 3D application that.... Read More

Review: 'Automatic Unfold' UV Unwrapper

Oct 10, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

In a recent article, I mentioned unwrapping and a tool I use in 3DS Max, PolyUnwrapper, which saves a lot of time and aggravation. One thing worse than skin weighting is unwra.... Read More

Review: Painter Essentials 7

Oct 09, 2019 at 04:00 pm by Barbara Din

After the release of Corel Painter 2020 this year, it's time for the new Painter Essentials 7, which was just released. This is Corel's software aimed at digital painting begi.... Read More