Reviews

CGPress is pleased to share our first ever hardware review, featuring an in-depth analysis of the Huion Kamvas 13. In it, we evaluate if the a small, relatively inexpensive pen tablet, is a worthwhile investment for a 3D Artist working predominantly in an app like 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini or Blender.  Read it in full on our website.

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PostPerspective has published a review of the Hitfilm Pro 12 editing, compositing and visual effects application published by FXHome. "[...] HitFilm 12 will fill a lot of holes for individual content creators. If you love learning new things [...]HitFilm 12 will be a good investment of your time. " Read the review in full on PostPerspective.

With Microsoft discontinuing the Kinect camera, people are on the lookout for alternatives. 3D Scan Expert has posted a number of reviews of cameras suitable for scanning over the year, and has now published the latest thorough review of two new depth-sensing cameras - the Intel RealSense D415 the Orbbec Astra S. Read the review in full on the 3D Scan Expert website.

Quadspinner has released a new early access build of Gaea that adds directed erosion tools to the landscape modelling application. Erosion in procedural landscape creation tools is usually applied to the entire area, or at best it can be masked, but Gaea has added the ability to 'sculpt' erosion effects only where they're wanted for precise fine tuning and art directing of terrains.  (more...)

3D Scan Expert has review Qlone, an app for iOS and Android that use a printable marker to capture models using photogrammetry."Overall the capture process itself is very smooth and the near-instant computation is impressive. But for me, the geometric resolution of most models is too low for many objects. It works fine for very organically shaped objects like pastry and shoes but it doesn’t capture sharp details on the surface of objects well." Read the review in full on the 3D Scan Expert website.