Tips & Insights

Certainly there are some artists who have created 3D models, but still think whether they should bother to place them on the market at all. They may think it could be time consuming, it could be loss-making business or maybe just too much of the hassle. Whatever it could be, lets leave all these arguments aside, as actually there are great bunch of reasons why it’s worth giving a shot, too. Let’s explore them. 1....

Another month has passed and it is time to have a look at some of the highlights we had at CGTrader website. Once again, this list is based on personal favourites and it's worth browsing around CGTrade page for even more great 3D models or just to catch some ideas for your own projects! Seller sidnaique Punished is truly great 3D model of the sculpture of the punished boy, looks quite mesmerising! By only looking...

It is another great day and we proudly present the new publisher! This time we focused on easing the most boring but important matters like writing tags, description and file upload. It has new user interface and unique features to help 3D artists in their publishing process. We hope you will enjoy them! Recommended tags tool is designed to speed up the process of writing of tags. Being 3d designers ourselves we know how boring...

Put yourself in the shoes of the customer. See, how little time he has to make a decision? The 3D model description should help the customer both get enough information and save his time. In the previous post I pointed out some tricks on how to make 3D model description more friendly for SEO and more visible in Google. But bringing potential customer to your product is not enough to complete the sale. Good product...

Engine 3D model from TOP10 in November by best3dmodels.blogspot.com When everybody is in a hurry and bussy working, there's very little time left to check what's interesting happening in CG community. So I collected the links of what attracted me when browsing CG blogs and sites this week. Jean-Denis Haas from ILM tells us how important are social skills in an animation career. Sure, we all have to focus on perfecting our 3D skills. To...

While number of 3D models uploaded to very fast growing CGTrader.com it's time to spotlight some of them. I made a TOP10 list which is based on my personal opinion, nothing else. If you didn't get into this TOP10 this time, it's not your fault, it is mine :) Don't forget to +1 the model if You agree with my choice. On behalf of CGTrader team I thank everyone who trusted to sell 3D models...

Everyone who is involved in marketing, video gaming, video training could tell you sad stories about how much time and money is always spent to create high quality computer graphics. If you want to simulate reality, the simulation must be as real as possible, and this takes a lot. There's one superstar in CG industry when it comes to military models - Military Visualizations Inc. - who has digital models of probably every military vehicle...

This particular Mercedes SL55 model costs only $99 and will be delivered to you in minutes (note, special 3D modeling skills necessary to drive it...) Is it possible to buy 2010 Subaru Legacy for only 95 USD? How come Mercedes SL55 costs as much (99$) as Fiat 500? The price depends on where you want to place these cars. If there's free space in the garage in architecture project of luxury house, you better insert...

This picture and quote of Albert Einstein was shared and reshared hundreds of times in Google Plus last week. We were working on 3D artist profiles that time, so started to think: what could be that simple functionality that would best explain CGTrader's approach to the artists? The solution was very simple. It is so simple that it is quite strange to miss that functionality in any other 3D model shop on the Internet. Here...

CGTrader.com is safe now. After petr005 started uploading his military objects, we're now best protected territory. Is there any other organization who has both American and Russian (and even Soviet) tanks, fighter aircrafts, helicopters - all of them ready to be used any time? Welcome. Thanks to amazing artist petr005, there're 17 game ready military machines so far, waiting to be downloaded and thrown into the battle in the computer game you're now working on....