Todd Sheridan Perry

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Tech Reviews: Acer ConceptD 5 Pro, LIFTiD Neurostimulation

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 21, 2020

Acer ConceptD 5 Pro I’m typing this review on the Acer ConceptD 5 Pro laptop with a Quadro RTX 3000 with 6GB of RAM inside....

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December Tech Reviews: Nuke 12, Cartoon Animator 4, Ziva 1.7

Todd Sheridan Perry - November 4, 2019

Foundry’s Nuke 12 Last month, Foundry released version 12 of their flagship, Nuke. And there is some pretty groovy stuff in it. So, with minimal...

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Tech Reviews: November 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - October 8, 2019

Wacom’s Cintiq 22 Wacom keeps makin’ things, and I just keep lovin’ ’em. The latest Cintiq 22 is the “prosumer” version of the Cintiq Pro...

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Putting the Razer Blade 15 Gaming Laptop’s RTX Tech to the Test

Todd Sheridan Perry - June 7, 2019

Since the announcement of the RTX technology back in SIGGRAPH of 2018, the graphics world has been turned on its head. There are people...

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May ‘19 Tech Reviews: Titan RTX, Maya 2019 & Modo 13

Todd Sheridan Perry - May 1, 2019

Nvidia’s Titan RTX Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...

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April Tech Reviews

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 5, 2019

Wacom’s Cintiq 16 What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions? Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...

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Tech Reviews February 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - January 7, 2019

V-Ray for Unreal Last year, Chaos Group announced its development of V-Ray for Unreal. This year, after a brief Beta period, they made it happen....

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The Top Tech Tools and Trends of 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 24, 2018

We are back again with a recap of the best tech of 2018. As always, some things are new, some have been around, and...

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Tech Reviews November 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Creation Effects A growing trend in visual effects these days is buying pre-packaged recipes for software that you can then crack open and manipulate to...

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Tech Reviews January 2019

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite 15 What is with the releases that have so many new bells and whistles that I can’t even cover a fraction...

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Tech Reviews December 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - December 9, 2018

Adobe Characterizer This past September, Adobe revealed details on the new features that will be added to its Creative Cloud software suite by year’s end....

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Tech Reviews September-October 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - September 3, 2018

Nukeygara’s Akeytsu I’ve watched the team at Lyon-based Nukeygara develop its product Akeytsu for the past few SIGGRAPH confabs — at least all the way...

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The Best of SIGGRAPH 2018

Todd Sheridan Perry - August 30, 2018

This year at SIGGRAPH we had a few standouts for advances in technology, but also for paradigm shifts in terms of services for at...

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August 2018 Tech Reviews

Todd Sheridan Perry - July 21, 2018

KeenTools KeenTools is a plugin suite for Nuke to assist with 3D object tracking — in a nutshell. And I have to say, it’s really,...

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June-July 2018 Tech Reviews

Todd Sheridan Perry - June 11, 2018

Allegorithimic’s Substance Painter Allegorithmic released its latest version of both Substance Painter and Designer, making a great thing even greater. I like to say they’ve...

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May 2018 Tech Reviews

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 29, 2018

Wacom Intuos Just when I thought tablets couldn’t get any smaller and maintain their functionality, the brilliant folks at Wacom released their latest Intuos last...

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