Todd Sheridan Perry

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Tech Reviews: Storm Simulator, Chaos Vantage 3 & World Creator 2025

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 9, 2026

Storm: The Simulation Tool The world of dynamic simulations can often feel like a labyrinth of nodes, solvers and compute caches, each with its own...

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Top 10 Tech Tools of the Year

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 4, 2026

The speed at which technology is changing is both exhilarating and frightening, largely driven by advances in AI. But even without AI in the...

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Tech Reviews: Blender 4.5, Boris FX’s Continuum, JangFX’s IlluGen

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 5, 2025

Blender 4.5 Blender’s recent release of version 4.5 LTS marks another step forward for the open-source powerhouse, and this one feels particularly polished. Following the...

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Tech Reviews: SynthEyes 2025, Marvelous Designer & Houdini 21

Todd Sheridan Perry - October 26, 2025

Boris FX’s SynthEyes 2025.5 Boris FX has rolled out SynthEyes 2025.5, and while it isn’t a complete reinvention of the matchmoving (camera tracking in VFX)...

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Tech Reviews: Chaos’s V-Ray for Blender, Wacom’s Cintiq Touch Line

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 27, 2025

V-Ray for Blender Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Blender brings the power of a production-proven renderer to the open-source 3D community. While Blender users have long...

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Tech Reviews: Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 20, Autodesk’s Maya MotionMaker

Todd Sheridan Perry - August 15, 2025

DaVinci Resolve 20 Blackmagic has officially released DaVinci Resolve 20, and the list of additions and augmentations is huge. Since I’ll never be able to...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - June 20, 2025

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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 11, 2025

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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 20, 2025

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...

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Tech Reviews: Best of 2024

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 24, 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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - November 29, 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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - October 25, 2024

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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - August 7, 2024

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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - July 22, 2024

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....

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - May 3, 2024

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....

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - March 22, 2024

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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 5, 2024

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...

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The Top Tech Tools of 2023

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 29, 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...

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

Todd Sheridan Perry - November 17, 2023

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,...

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