This review features the flag ship 30 inch display from NEC. This monitor boasts an impressive list of features and it designed for the high end grapahics professional.
Last week I received the second book from Brian Smith's 3ds Max for Architectural Visualization book series and took a moment to review both titles.
Builder AWI adopts 3D in processes that take the pain out of complex designs. Advancements in 3D design tools have given manufacturers tremendous productivity gains over the last two decades. Automotive...
Media Collaboration Anytime, Anyplace. Cozimo introduces a smarter, easier and more advanced way to review and collaborate on images, video and other digital media with colleagues and clients.
So what is a SpaceNavigator you might ask? All of 3Dconnexion’s product offerings are in a word, 3D mice. They allow you to push, pull, tilt, and twist a controller cap using a six degree-of-freedom optical...
Jeff Stikeman has been a practicing architect for over twenty years and speaks the language of architectural visualization well, moving fluently between traditional and digital media. His is a unique...
Being offered the chance to record, reconstruct and then create a documentary about a 1,000 year old Maya city is not something that many of us get. Clement Valla, an architectural designer by profession and a...
Craft Director Tools is a suite of real-time animation tools useful for everything from making a car drive down the street to animating jitter in a camera. The set of tools is relatively easy to install, use,...
IDEA is the IntelliCAD-based BIM solution, designed to meet in a very friendly and flexible way all the needs of an architect, including advanced architectural design, rendering and virtual walkthrough. IDEA...
Beginning this year, the makers of Machintosh Computers, made an important announcement, presented on stage by CEO Steve Jobs, telling the astonished audience that they are going to put in the Intel Chip in...
Tim Danaher reviews Cheetah3D version 3.4. Cheetah (or C3D) is a Mac-only modeling rendering and animation program that has found great favor with architects due to its streamlined interface, great rendering...
modo is said to have a cult following amongst the ArchViz community. Why then is a 3D application, known for its subdivision modeling capabilities, in its early to middle stages of development gaining favor so...
We all love SketchUp. However, what the program has traditionally suffered from is a lack of reference materials. Sure, there are the video tutorials on the website, and you've always had the on-line hypertext...
A few years ago I reviewed Stitcher 3.1, but with version 5 having been recently released, I thought I would take a look to see what had changed.
"In the twenty-first century people have developed a new kind of relationship with information. Digital technology has drastically reduced the cost of fixation and transmission of information. Reduced it...
I recently had the opportunity to review many of the model collections offered by Evermotion. I had access to volumes 1-12 for this evaluation and will look at model quality, ease of use, file setup, variety...