Help choosing a graphic design monitor

[Astraica]

Hi  I have a huge question. When I started school to become a graphic designer in 2012, I bought the Asus 3D ready VG278 27” monitor so I could make art for games and test it out in said games and watch my 3D movies. It recently became unusable, as my new computer does not use DVI which I had it set up with all this time until now, and, the start button does not work to turn it to HDMI. This monitor has served me well as a type of hybrid for all tasks I needed it to do, and now, I’m professionally making HD 2k resolution texture packs for Minecraft. But, I cannot without a good monitor. To make these packs I need the monitor to be good with 3D modelling, have accurate colour, and have really good viewing on every angle. I need something that will replace my old monitor and focus on these things but, also be good to just log into Mincraft, look around see if my models/textures look good with the Ray Tracing capable shaders I use (Seus and Continuum RT), and then go back to creating. On the off side, I do want to be able to play games too with it, but not competitively, just for relaxation, so I don’t care about blur, but if there’s something that might do that’d be great, if not, I can live with crappy gaming experience X3 I’m a graphic designer first. Now, I also make videos, web designs, professional designs for ads etc as well, so this has to factor in. Also, it would be soooo wonderful to be able to watch my 3D blu-ray movies on it if possible. That was such a nice feature of my old monitor... When I had HDMI working. Price does not matter at this point, but, I will consider cheaper monitors to save as much as I can.

 

I’ve done a bit of research and have found it hard to compare anything like my current monitor back in the day because things have branched off so much, and, I had a budget back then, I knew I couldn’t afford what I needed for super good graphics. Also a monitor calibrator recommendation would be wonderful too. I was sad I couldn’t afford one back in College when I bought this monitor and... Never got around to getting one.

 

Also: A monitor no smaller than 27” and likely no bigger than 32” would be perfect. I could likely go bigger if I need to consider one of those really long monitors, but for now, I like the size of this one.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and even more for helping if you do  

[jaslion]

No budget here so as a starting point I can safely recommend the asus proart 27inch (the non usb c one it's cheaper and only lacks usb c). Pretty good gaming experience as it is a 75hz panel with low input latency.

 

Also comes calibrated out of the box and is easy to manually calibrate. The price is around 360$ and that would be around the lowest I would go.

 

Another option is the eizo ev2450 it's basically the favorite budget pick from years ago till the asus came around so not really any point getting it.

[Astraica]

Thank you so much! I will wait for more recommendations, but that’s an amazing price from what I thought I would have to pay! I’ll definitely consider it and look it up now

[jones177]

My last monitor as a 3D artist(retired) was a 32" LG VA monitor.

I did not need more since most of my output was to print. 

 

If I started back working today I would use my 49" LG TV since it is IPS 120hz. I like to go big because there is less chance of an error in a model or in a texture getting past me. 

 

[emosun]

If you're doing it professionally then just get an Apple pro display xdr.

the cost won;t matter as it's easily a write off in your profession.

[Astraica]

Hmmmn good point, and I do need a 120hz refresh rate monitor for 3D movie watching too, but yes that refresh rate is so nice to work with. Looking at the previous monitor that was suggested was great, but I know I won’t be able to watch those movies on it. I’ll likely have to forgo that aspect anyway and just get myself a tv for it X3 I legit have not watched TV in many years X3

 

thank youso much and will look up these as well!  also, you’re right about the size, that’s why I loved this one so much, because it was so much bigger than what I had. I’ll have to consider bigger sizes!

[Astraica]

Ak no way sorry I worked for Apple. For many reasons, I will never buy Apple products X3 thanks though.

[jaslion]

16 minutes ago, emosun said:

If you're doing it professionally then just get an Apple pro display xdr.

the cost won;t matter as it's easily a write off in your profession.

It doesn't properly work on a windows system like at all. Pretty much apple systems only with thunderbolt make it function correctly.

[jaslion]

11 minutes ago, Astraica said:

Hmmmn good point, and I do need a 120hz refresh rate monitor for 3D movie watching too, but yes that refresh rate is so nice to work with. Looking at the previous monitor that was suggested was great, but I know I won’t be able to watch those movies on it. I’ll likely have to forgo that aspect anyway and just get myself a tv for it X3 I legit have not watched TV in many years X3

 

thank youso much and will look up these as well!  also, you’re right about the size, that’s why I loved this one so much, because it was so much bigger than what I had. I’ll have to consider bigger sizes!

3D doesn't work on any modern monitor anymore. That feature has basically been removed in it's entirety. So yeah that is not really going to happen.

 

I'd actually just recommend a proart (they come in bigger sizes too more expensive but they are noticeably better in terms of colour accuracy too, entry level pro monitors really) and if you want high refresh rate a secondary screen for that. You can't have the best of everything in a single monitor really. Better to just get 2 monitors that are amazing in their purpose than a good one at best that does it all.

 

The gigabyte q27g would be a great budget high refresh rate monitor.

[Astraica]

Bah I had a feeling it had been discontinued. Thank you very much for that  well I’m fine with a slower refresh rate than as the quality I will get for my art will be much better. I was only concerned for that one feature mostly. Yeah, I’ll consider that monitor than