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3D modeling brings you out of space. It loosens your hands and releases your fantasy. You can sculpt, combine, model, shape, form any most ridiculous object that contravenes physics and is far beyond the reality. Since CGTrader.com is holding 3D Printing Competition, there are a few things each 3D designer must definitely know about. When you design a print-ready model, a process of modeling changes a bit. While modeling 3D printable objects, you must always...

The past month was full of new experiences and challenges for all of us. While April was shocking with cardinal temperatural changes, popularity of "make offer" feature at CGTrader's marketplace has overcome any boundaries of the our greatest expectations. In the middle of May 3D Printing Competition has been launched and we cannot wait the winners to take the prizes - two breath-taking 3D printers by Ultimaker. So, until we count the last days for...

Imagine that 3D model marketplace is like a huge supermarket with hundreds of showcases... I doubt if you would be attracted to buy any goods that are scattered all around. Let's say you have walked around the marketplace three times already and you are not able to find, where the milk is. The fact that there is no indicated price in the same shelf, would definitely confuse a you. The same is at the online...

Watches. Heat. Melting. Awry forms. Devastated settings. Torsos of the dreams. It coalesces. Then it detaches. Surreal visual art reminds us of something. Actually, it awakens the most latent parts of ourselves. Surrealism is like a potion, made in the 1920s for the first time. But it still flourishes and inspires contemporary artists. Surrealism is being used as kind of therapeutics, enabling the artists to analyse the depth of human nature by mixing the most...

The colonisation of virtual world has already gained momentum. A variety of people these days move into their remote and small chambers of social networks and dive into the ocean of information with no shores. Unfortunately, absolute majority of them still have to face reality every day. Then iPhone helps. iPad helps. iPod helps too. PSP handheld device helps. Definitely. The real world is way too boring for many people. By making a real world...

Whaaaat..? What is that 'steampunk'? Definitely, most of you have had some dreams and fantasies in the childhood, where you were time travelling dressed as an astronaut with a steam-powered jet-set and a bag full of coal to launch it. So, steampunk is a symbolical form of romanticism mixed with technology, seeping both into arts and culture since the 1980s. Aesthetic British Victorian era, American “Wild-Wild West” lunacy, steam-powered technologies - all of these convey...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” Joseph Conrad Firstly, I would like to point out that this blog post is balanced for women. Okay, okay. This is suitable for men also. It is impossible to forget such a nice event as International Woman's Day. This holiday announces the very beginning of spring and calls each man on Earth to remember a woman. Once in a...

The whole February new uploads from old and new members of our design community were flowing like a stirring stream in early spring. Two days ago we just hit a pulsing boundary of 10'000 models. Everything is getting better and better: our 3D model collection is renewed with a variety of fresh ideas. Surprisingly, the most popular shape of February was not a heart. Actually, there were just a few Valentine-related models. But this is...

St. Patrick's day and calendar spring have nothing to do with the green virus spreading on the internet. Facebook and Twitter icons, hashtags, blog posts and discussions on this topic, shots from movies without VFX are mainstream trends of the week, showing solidarity with the VFX and animation community. This explosive topic has been discussed behind the closed doors in the studios by VFX masters for a long time. Suddenly the issue reached a peak...

Some people like to highlight that all the glorious art has already been created. Those who say so perhaps forget to count in the endless possibilities of 3D design. Today movies can be filmed in a quarry of stone and 3D designers will add the turquoise sea, verdant pinewood and a surreal house on the shore. The audience could suspect a house being improved using 3D design technique. But it is much easier to bribe...