Interviews

Have you ever lost something? Something you liked so much? How did it feel? I can imagine what answers are spinning around your head as everybody has experienced that feeling at least once in their lives. It happened for me, but I will not get into details as it is not my personal story I want to write about. You are wondering: “So what is that about?” It is all about the community of CGTrader....

The Netherlands might be the place where 3D printing could feel like at home, yeah, we told you that already. It seems that a colossal amount of 3D printing enthusiasts have started business in this country. We want to tell you a different story - we want to tell you how 3D printing changed the life of a person whose work was not related to it. Yvonne van Zummeren is a Dutch jewelry designer who...

How are you, dear visitors of CGTrader.com and members of our lovely community?! What's new in your lives? We hope that everything is alright. What? What's new in our marketplace, you ask? Oh, nothing much, nothing much... Just few changes and amazing features, which you would really like to use and enjoy! But, before we introduce you to the new gadgets and spaces of our platform, let us congratulate you all with the significant growth...

Usually, the stuff that is free tends to be associated to low quality. However, it is known for a long time already that providing free samples of your production is a good way to drag the attention to yourself. If you are a creator, then you should know that you will never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Those who know it, use the possibility to represent themselves through free samples....

We have just published an interview with the winner of The Best 3D Printable Portfolio Sam Abbott. But there is one more winner anxiously waiting for the second Ultimaker 3D printer to arrive. In our spotlight, we have the Winner of The Best 3D Printable Model. So..meet Chee Fong! He calls himself a sci-fi geek and models crazy, unfamiliar, fantastic objects, but his style is catching and has to be considered a piece of real...

Most of the time there are dozens of extremely talented people in the closest environment, but we look for the far far away artists. 3D Printing competition is over and the winners look forward their 3D printers to arrive. Until they wait for it, we talk to the winner of The Best 3D Printable Portfolio - Sam Abbott. He is a 3D designer, who works at a pioneering company of 3D printed designs. This is...

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...

"Mostly I care about the story or thought that I put into the image to make it come to life" Tomas Kral Tomas Kral was still at school, when he realised that drawing is something he is really good at. It has been four years already since Tomas Kral has started working as a senior team leader for visual effects and post production house "UPP" in Prague, Czech Republic. He had a chance to take...

Marek Denko is a 3D designer who attracted the whole computer graphics community with his artwork. The artist had no training in the field of 3D design. But he was always learning from his own mistakes and successes. Marek Denko's first job in the industry was as a low polymodeling freelancer for a company in Bratislava. Today he is a world-known 3D designer. The designer's artwork is highly distinctive with a peculiar touch of his....

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...