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There are a lot of things in the world that are hard to believe. Face the truth – eyes lie to us. Or, more specifically, our mind does not let us understand simple visual information which is used in optical illusion tricks. Optical illusion is visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. I bet, you remember all those visual puzzles of “a rabbit and a duck” as the same object and so on. Well,...

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....

As the summer breeze gets cooler and cooler everyday and you find yourself thinking about the cozy sweater and a cup of hot tea instead of ice coffee in the evening. We tried to enjoy all the summertime pleasure in smaller portions whereas we were straightly moving towards our sunny days goal - to reach the dreamed milestone of 10,000 users. Back in March we were so satisfied to announce the achievement of 10,000 3D...

Social media enhances everyone to communicate, interact, share and talk. Even those, who are not really talkative turn into chatterboxes. There are billions of topics to discuss, myriads of ideas to express and enormous need to be heard. Social mainstream channels, thousands of distinct forums and discussion rooms try to serve this global need. There were even a few revolutions organized using Facebook and Twitter. CGTrader does not intend to start a revolution, but launches...

Community is a crucial element of the digital society. Usually marketplaces do care about the customers and the potential wealth they are expected to bring. So, they build want-buy-sell relationship, based on the principle of hierarchy between a seller and buyer. CGTrader.com does not believe in this. We choose to care by having a professional artist community and becoming the most community-friendly platform for 3D designers. In order to raise our family of artists and...

Designers and studios on 3D model marketplaces are not only talented creators, but also good salespeople. The ones, who understand how a trading system works. Nevertheless, 3D model trading sometimes leads 3D designers to the endless headache of questioning themselves: what do the buyers really need? CGTrader.com has found the answer to this Hamlet-style question. Therefore, we are opening the dashboard for custom modeling. Now if you know what you want, but cannot find it...

Lots of the people believe that any progress finally results in regression. It is pointless to argue with the convinced ones. Personally, I appreciate any technology that can improve the life of a human being just by helping to warm up yesterday's dinner in the microwave or washing dishes instead of going through trouble to do it yourself. But there's technology that can completely transform one's life. 3D printing is the exact sphere to seek...

Europe is definitely not enough. U.S.A. is more, but still not enough. India - makes it better. But...Sometimes even the world is not enough. CGTrader.com is a great example of that. After being working with PayPal payment system closely, CGTrader.com decided to integrate one more international payment gateway - Skrill (previously Moneybookers). And this opens up the markets from China to Ivory Coast. Since now 3D designers from 102 more countries are eligible to join...

Finally, the sky turned blue. And we keep moving forward. New Year-made promises are step by step being fulfilled within our team. The long-awaited new CGTrader's system has been launched in the beginning of April. CGTrader left the amazon model and went eBay. Our 3D object library is rapidly expanding: March has brought a tremendous amount of fresh and creative 3D models. Jeez, I am sure now, 3D allows you to design anything. Any-thing. Extraordinary...

There are several ways to go about implementing a vision. We have ours. For the last 4 months we had a single goal. It got us so addicted to what we do that it made our office our second home. It resulted in bottomless cups of coffee and tea, sleepless nights for the programmers, loads of stress and code combinations, dozens of chocolate bars and a serious headache on how to make a dream come...