Tips & Insights

The 1st of October, 2011, was the Vespaclub season closing. Hundreds of Vespa drivers filled the downtown making it to look like Italian village. And what a surprise: a week later CGTrader.com receives some interesting models... While one closes the season, someone else opens another! The artist called jvr3D uploaded 10 3D models at a time: all related to the speed. Now you can get motorcycle helmet, motocross helmet and goggles or even Audi R18...

Pumper, a great modeler of non organic things, uploaded 41 of his wonderful 3D objects and so enriched CGTrader.com assortment with various non organic models: router, calculator, bilboard, clocks and many others. I have exactly the same router at home and you can see the difference: Pumper's 3D model looks much better than the real one :) Pumper sells his models in various 3D stocks but he highly recommends CGTrader.com (thank You, Pumper!). According to...

CGTrader.com received a very exclusive 3D model that has incredible story. Damir G Martin, a great character design artist, shared his amazing work - a serie of unique 55 dragons. Damir went through "Design Marathon" and created 55 dragons in 28 days! Dragon 48 from dg martin on Vimeo. Damir notes: I had little less work with clients scheduled so I decided to make use of that extra time in a good way. Guys, if...

There's no need to have huge 3D models portfolio to start proudly sharing your talent. We're very proud to partnership with such artists like JohannesSchloerb, who has only one model (yet) in CGTrader.com, but what a model! CGI Euro Coins from Johannes Schlörb on Vimeo. It took less than two months for JohannesSchloerb to receive the first payment for the Eurocoins 3D model. We're sure he will sell many more times as Euro is a...

If you look at the 3D model of New York City shared by NONECG, don't believe your eyes. I'm just back from NYC and can point 5 things that are missing: yellow cabs hod dog vendors people people people This is why we love CG: it allows us to build our own exclusive world and show it to others! If we miss something in NY, we just add it, right? For us, 3D artists, it...

We are happy to give you one more way of promoting your products. This time with Google +1! What is Google's +1 about? Google explains it this way: Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1's can help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search. So what does this really mean to 3D artist selling his stuff on CGTrader? First of all when you...

We wrote about ristan_bethe's 3D models of humans last week that really worth attention of interior designers. And now we will make interior designers even more happy revealing the last big upload by the sbgwolf: ~90 great models of furniture (sofas, tables, cabinets, beds, chairs, etc) and different stuff to be placed in 3D interior designs. The quality of the models is amazing and we're proud to partnership with such a fabulous artist! We're sure...

Yesterday tristan_bethe uploaded 4 exclusive 3D models that a really worth consideration of architectures and interior designers. The man (a senior, a businessman, pregnant lady or a man in T-short) is standing casually and seems to be waiting to get into your room, kitchen or terrace that now are empty in your interior or architectural plan. These models are 3D scans without any retopo done. Albert Hadley, The Story of America's Preeminent Interior Designer, once...

When you’re working on a large-scale project — whether it’s building a virtual product catalog, powering a real-time application, or preparing training data — sourcing 3D models in the tens or hundreds of thousands becomes a serious operation. At CGTrader, we’ve supported companies across industries sourcing anywhere from 10,000 to over 100,000 3D models through our marketplace. We’ve seen what works, and more importantly, where things can go wrong if the process isn’t carefully planned....