Dusty Fest Winners Announced
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City (NYC) has announced the...
Posts from category "Tech Reviews"
HP Workstation xw4100
The super speedy xw4100 workstation that I tested came with a 3.0GHz/800 Pentium 4 processor, an 80GB harddrive, six USB ports (two front ones), three firewire ports, one DVD+R/+RW, an NVIDIA Quadro 4200 NVS 64mb graphics card, one Gig of RAM and Windows XP Pro OS. Now all of that [...]
Next Limit’s RealWave 2.0
RealWave is a physically-based water and ocean simulation plug-in that can even track the propagation of gravitational waves on a mesh. RealWave 2 creates waves by a simple mouse click, and then allows the modification of speed and/or slopes. Users can easily import objects and have the water react to [...]
Digital Video s.r.l.’s Toonz Animation Board 2.0 (The Tab)
This intuitive software for web animation allows you to draw directly into the computer. It also offers a revolutionary approach to handling vectors; instead of grabbing vector points, you can pull or bend a vector by clicking anywhere on an image. The UI comes with four separate rooms (screens) designed [...]
3D Nature’s World Construction Set 6
If you’re in the market for creating brave, new worlds, alien planets, or actual geographical locations rich with streams, lakes and flowers, World Construction Set 6 can be your best little helper. You can import objects and textures from your own programs and add them to this sublimely rich library [...]
Introduction to Level Designs for PC Games By Andy Clayton
Clayton’s well-researched tome covers almost all the steps and details of game development from planning to lighting to texture. The author also spends the time to explain the ins and outs of gmax, a free game editor from Discreet. Future game development artists will do themselves a big favor by [...]
Npower Software’s Power Booleans 2.0 (for 3DS MAX)
This plug-in for 3ds max and Rhino helps animators create complex models and shapes with quality meshes and fewer faces. This new version features Level Editing and Quad Meshing. The Good News: Power Booleans 2.0 lets you choose any object you used in your operation and neatly modify it. The [...]
EZQuest’s USB 2.0 Cobra harddrive
EZQuest’s new line of USB 2.0 hard drives are available in 40, 60, 80, 120 and even 250GB. The Cobra 250 GB USB 2.0 drive we tested delivered the superb transfer rate of 470 MB/S. Cobra 250 GB worked smoothly as our video drive when we were using Avid Xpress [...]
Pioneer DVR-A05U
The Pioneer DVR-A05U is one of the most reliable DVD writers on the market right now. It is versatile and very easy to use. The DVR-A05U executes well when authoring DVD video onto DVD-R or DVD-RW media. The Good News: DVR-A05U comes with Roxio’s easy CD, Sonic’s My DVD 4.0, [...]
ATI’s FIRE GL X1-128 Graphics Card
The Fire GL X1-128 is one of ATI’s latest products and boasts better performance than most other graphic cards out there. It can handle tons of textures and high poly models with ease, enabling users to view their work in realtime. It has a 128mb DDR memory, AGP 8X/4X and [...]
Digimation’s Stitch Lite
Ask animators about the difficulties of simulating cloth in 3D and their tales of woe will fill up a whole book. For a while, 3D cloth simulators raised some hope in providing a fast solution to the problem, but most of them failed to deliver the real goods. Creating simple [...]
‘Rise of the...
As expected, DreamWorks Animation made an early splash at the Cannes Film...
BBC Says Good-Bye to...
The BBC Trust has confirmed that children’s programs will no longer be shown...
