The Digital Window by Brian O' HanlonThe popular image of an architect, is someone carrying a 'bundle of drawings' and a great deal of responsibility. The famous 'bundle of drawings' is an architect's perceptual window into a design problem. This...
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Sugar3D Car Models ReviewedI recently had a chance to review the newly released set of car models produced by a company called Sugar3D. They currently offer 25 different models ranging from the VW Golf and Chrysler Crossfire to the...
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Shade 7 Professional ReviewedShade is really quick and efficient to work with, especially for illustration or design purposes. The learning curve is far from steep, and if the user finds that he can get along with the UI, it will prove to...
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Fast Send 2.0 ReviewedI recently had the opportunity to take FastSend 2.0 for a testdrive, a new digital file transfer service by FileFlow. FileFlow is a spin-off of Fast Search & Transfer – a leading search technology company...
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Final Render Stage-1 Reviewed by John Dollus"During the course of producing this review, it became apparent that rendering engines seem to have developed somewhat of a cult-like following. Users of rendering engines are very defensive when it comes...
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Vue 5 Esprit ReviewedThe first thing one realizes 5 minutes after launching the program is what the developers claim: a piece of software that actually “grows” with the user, as one can choose the way he approaches the...
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C4D V9 Reviewed by Steve ShawCinema 4D is a modular software package involving a base application complimented by expansion packages of specialty features such as character animation tools, advanced lighting tools, advanced particle...
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Piranesi ® 4 Painting Space for Windows ReviewI started out in 2003 with Release 3 of the popular painting software Piranesi, which takes its roots in the work and style of the 18th century architectural draftsman, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. After seeing...
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A First look at Illuminate labs’ Turtle for MayaChristopher Nichols is an ex-architect that was a visualization expert at a large architecture firm. He currently is working for Digital Domain in Venice California, and has worked on such films as “The Day...
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World Builder Pro 4 ReviewedThis is an out of the box review of World Builder Pro 4 from Digital Element. The best way to describe World Builder Pro 4 is Terragen on steroids. The highlights are the basic spline deformations of a mesh,...
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Boujou Bullet ReviewThere are almost a dozen camera tracking softwares on the market today ranging in price from about $500 upwards of $10,000 US, but the software that caught my eye at this year’s SIGGRAPH was 2d3’s Boujou...
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Metropoly People ReviewedMetropoly by Axyz-Design offers multiple sets of 3d people that are low to medium poly (3-6k). These sets contain mostly casually dressed people with high quality textures and well laid out texture maps (for...
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ArchVision Hi-Res Deciduous RPC Collection...Marking the first of many upcoming hi-res RPC libraries, ArchVision recently released a North American Deciduous collection containing 75 trees each 2500 pixels high.
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ArchVision Composer ReviewedThe tool itself is very straight forward and while it only has a few settings to content with, allows you to very quickly drop in and position the RPC content within your scene.
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ArchiCD for 3dsmax 6 ReviewedI recently had the opportunity to review a new video tutorial CD for the architectural visualization industry made by a relatively new company to our field – 3dquakers.com.
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TurboCAD v.10 Professional ReviewedThis is an out of the box review of TurboCad v.10 professional. Having never used TurboCad and being heavy on experience with AutoCAD and Discreet 3D software, this has been a very interesting excursion. Focus...
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