Reviews

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

Fast and easy body editing with PortraitPro Body

Oct 09, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

PortraitPro Body is another software photo manipulation by Anthropics, a company that also offers PortraitPro and LandscapePro, two applications I've already covered. Portrai.... Read More

Review: The Novel Factory Software makes developing a novel less painful than getting a shot

Sep 30, 2019 at 10:00 am by 3DFineries

Designed by a writer, Novel Factory was created to streamline the writing process. Users can build their story's blueprint, develop characters, write, and track submissions al.... Read More

Free 3D sculpting with MeshMolder

Sep 25, 2019 at 12:00 pm by nemirc

Sculpting to create 3D models became very prominent with the release of ZBrush. After that, a few more sculpting tools have emerged to offer an alternative. MeshMolder is one.... Read More

Review: Landscape photo enhancing with LandscapePro

Sep 18, 2019 at 10:00 am by nemirc

LandscapePro is a software aimed to digital photographers, or hobbyists, that will help you retouch pictures of landscapes and cityscapes. LandscapePro is made by Anthropics,.... Read More

Review: Adobe Spark Post for Android

Sep 12, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

Alright. I admit it. This desktop tower fanatic has finally used a productive app in (gasp) Android on (double gasp) a Galaxy Tab E and liked it (hell HAS frozen over)! Now w.... Read More

Easy portrait enhancing with PortraitPro

Sep 08, 2019 at 04:30 pm by nemirc

Portrait photography is one of those activities where, in more or less degree, you end up doing some retouching and photo editing, be it for color correction, lighting correct.... Read More

Top 6 sites that offer free textures

Aug 27, 2019 at 10:00 am by Barbara Din

As digital artists or hobbyists, we often find ourselves in need of texture images, be it to use as a background, to finish a concept art piece, or as a material for a 3D mode.... Read More

Review of FLYINSIDE VR Flight Simulator

Aug 21, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed a simple, budget-priced virtual reality flight sim, the Cessna VR Flight Simulator. It is a nice introduction to VR flight sims if one is not.... Read More

Turn your footage into digital paintings with EbSynth

Aug 19, 2019 at 09:38 am by nemirc

EbSynth is a nice small tool that can help you create stylized versions of your videos with the help of one or more reference keyframes made from a still frame of your video..... Read More

Review: ArtRage 6 'makes for a breezy creative workflow'

Aug 14, 2019 at 11:31 am by Barbara Din

I've been watching ArtRage grow since it first started. I've said to myself time and time again I wanted to give it a go, but never got around to do it. Now that I write revie.... Read More

Game review: Descent into Flight Sim Madness

Aug 08, 2019 at 10:00 am by Warlord720

Even though I've been away from flight sims for years, I've always liked them. This dates back to green and black CRT screens and Microsoft's first flight simulator. The only.... Read More