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Our CEO Dalia Lasaite will be speaking at the VERTEX 2018 conference in London this Tuesday, March 13. Dalia will be presenting at the Expo Area in the East Hall of the event, where she will talk about our data-driven approach towards the 3D marketplace and the various ways companies and designers use it to advance their projects and careers. The conference will be bustling with CG artists from around the world, trying out the...

In a time when data is gold, we want to share premium insights with our community. Our Analytics tool has gotten a serious revamp! Designers on CGTrader can access exclusive marketplace data whenever they want and no longer need to wonder what to create next. The only requirement to start accessing this data is to have at least 5 models on the marketplace. What’s new? No more broad categories – from now on our Analytics...

Excitement is in the air as we launch a brand new art event – the CGTrader Digital Art Competition! CG artists from around the world are invited to bring their best 2D and 3D digital artworks. An audience of 1.2M+ CGTrader users can’t wait to see and appreciate great works of art. With over a dozen competition sponsors also ready to feature the best works, the exposure will be massive. And if that weren’t enough,...

Our newest 3D Challenge: Female Characters is about more than just prizes and awesome models. It also comes with a strong message. We are holding our biggest challenge yet with over $8,500 in licenses, rendering credits and other prizes. There are no technical requirements, so every designer has a chance to participate and help create a friendlier virtual world for women. Everyone is invited to join the challenge by creating, sharing and promoting female-friendly 3D...

Render times are a pain. With more studios and designers turning to render farms, our good friends and supporters of 3D challenges: Space and Female Characters – Rayvision's Fox Renderfarm – talked to us about rendering Academy Award (The Oscars) winners, YouTube celebrity videos and Bollywood blockbusters. They also revealed some technical hurdles they had to beat to satisfy 70,000 demanding customers, and some myths users often have about render farms. You’ve been in the...

Gone are the days of simple cutouts of people in static architectual visualizations! AXYZ Design studio is the leading innovator in archviz, bringing high-end dynamic assets and software to professional architects, the movie industry and everyone in between. In this interview, Diego Gadler, the CEO of AXYZ Design, shares his insights and experience in archviz, the blurring lines between games, VFX and archviz, and the huge potential of ANIMA – the first and widely used...

Have you ever thought about starting freelancing or selling your 3D works online, but didn’t? Maybe you’re doing it right now but are unsure if you’re doing it right? Maybe you think… 1. It’s impossible to do if I have a full-time job First, having a full-time job in no way prevents you from making your own models. Many CG artists create their models after work. Even if you have only an hour to spare...

Last year, CGTrader invited students from around the world to take a look at how games could be used for social good and playful learning. Our staff had a wonderful time reading their essays and voting for the best ones. We want to thank everyone for participating and congratulate Allison Smith, a student from Medical Lake High School, on winning first place and the $2,000 scholarship with her essay. Runners-up Gregory Welsh from Villanova University...

As millions of gamers are taking their first steps in virtual reality (VR), we want to find out more about the people creating awesome VR experiences. This is why we'd like to introduce Oliwer Svensson ( @oliwervik) to our 3D designer community. Oliwer is the Art Director at SVRVIVE – an independent VR game development studio known for making great games with immersive environments. In this interview, he shares his insights on developing transformative games,...

Last month we announced the winners of our 3D Challenge: Space. We got in touch with them and asked a couple of questions about their design work. Now, with the well-deserved spotlight on them, we give you their answers. Tell us a bit about yourselves. How did you start 3D modeling? jackfurneri1984: I'm an Italian 3D artist with a Master’s degree in 3D Computer Animation held at the University of Kent (Canterbury - UK). My...