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Wildlife is a crazy life. You have a possibility to curb wild nature and show it your way! That's right, we're having a Wildlife challenge. And for this challenge we have three different categories for the competition - Animals, Plants and Environment for a change! Choose your favourite theme and take your best shot. Free your mind, let your soul out and try to remember what a cool creation of world wildlife is! Challenge is...

The first Virtual Reality challenge to get things started has finished. We've picked out the winners for the challenge, take a bow guys! Best Model First Place: low-poly house for mobile games by t2dstudio Second Place: Futuristic Gladiators Arena by captainmarlowe Best Portfolio Portfolio by Lordlight The winners will notified shortly.

2016 is a good year to set new trends, and we're thinking about setting some in the Fashion world. It's a tough task, but it can be done, right? To make it more interesting, we throw in two (that's right, t-w-o!) 3D Printers to giveaway. Let's just say it's a motivating factor... Make unique accessories, belts, gadgets, shoes or anything you can 3D print and wear - make it stylish, make it trendy, make it...

Posted on January 5th, 2016 by Motiejus Ovsianikas With 2015 behind us, our team at CGTrader sat down to pick the top 10 game trailers that left us with a lasting impression. And what a year it was- full of controversy both in terms of highs and lows, bringing us games that will be remembered for years and some that had better not come out... But all of that aside, let's see what promises were...

Everyone remembers their first model... It's just like the first kiss, first ride on your bike, or when you first started walking ( well, sort of)... We're here with a new challenge for you - Upload your first model on CGTrader and have a chance to win 500 Hours of Free Rendering! We've teamed up with our friends at Rayvision who are giving away a prize worth the devilishly handsome $666! A good way to...

Posted on Dec 30, 2015 by Eduardas Jucys At CGTrader, we love the wildlife. Although some of you love dogs, you hate cats. If you love cats, you hate.. Pigeons? It doesn’t really matter what animals you don’t like, you simply love more of them than you hate - I can guarantee I’m right on this one. Oh, and there’s no such thing as too much love for animals! In the end - we all...

Our friends at mēkā are sharing the info about 3D Printers. We've decided to share their knowledge and observations about some 3D printers on our site. Hope you enjoy it! One of those questions that we always get asked - “So which is better, Fused Deposition Modelling or Digital Light Processing 3D Printing?” Before we embark on answering that we have to address the fundamentals. What is FDM 3D Printing? Fused Deposition Modelling is actually...

We had a nice and warm challenge to provide a bit of a Christmas feeling in 3D Printing World. We have the winners of this wonderful challenge here - let's give big applause to all the contestants, winners and sponsors! Merry 3D Printing Christmas from CGTrader! Best Model: 1st Place Winner: Nativity Set by asegura Runner-up: Santa on Tautanus by tomislavveg Best Portfolio: Porftolio by BRO1977 Runner-up: Portfolio by xiberboy You can see all entries...

This Challenge provided us with some great and different concepts of future! It looks like a lot of our contestants had different perspectives, but we've finally reached a decision for the winners of Vehicles from 2050's Challenge! Big Congratulations for the champs and Thank you for all the contestants and sponsors! Best Model Winner: future car model shark by kazimdoku 1st Runner-up: Audi Concept Racecar - Auto Union by Neubi3D 2nd Runner-up: Post-apocalyptic battle-car by...

Most of us marketing people (that includes you too, 3D designers!) are always looking to find some ways to attract customers and make our product look as good as it actually is (you do believe in your product, don't you?). It's like our own little children we have to take through the baby steps of growing and making their own lives. Well, this time we've got a good one for you - Instructographics on how...