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All the poets like to highlight that having a dream is the first step towards it. So as some of you may have already read or heard, we are very excited to announce that we have just made the second big step towards our vision. We have recently raised a seed funding round from Practica Capital fund! To those who do not know, CGTrader was launched in 2011. The main purpose of creating this kind...

It seems it has been a while since you have heard from us. No, we did not get a cold from the winter tricks – nor did we get carried away with extended Christmas holidays. Actually, we have been working a lot. By saying a lot, we mean working from the morning light to the dusk of the day – including dreaming and generating ideas while sleeping. This hard work has brought some great news...

If you or your friends haven't joined CGTrader yet, we want you to try our system, so we offer $20 of credits to every new nember. As you probably already know, uploading models and creating your personal 3D models store with CGTrader is free. After the sale is made and money is transferred directly to your PayPal account, your model needs to be reactivated for $5. So our giveaway of $20 credits will enable you...

We are happy that our recent 3D stock Challenge has attracted some great 3D artists like VKModels, Milviz, denisVFX and others. But we are even more excited to see more and more of new professional 3D artists are joining our community. In this post we want to say hello and give a credit to our newest members. A superbowl game 3D helmet is the first model from Eric Apanowicz's large collection. We hope that this...

Although out of beta, we continue to focus on developing CGTrader. This time we implemented filters for 3D print and Game-ready 3D models. Also categories are redesigned for easier customer navigation and better publicity for featured products. Easier navigation for customers Most of the time we dedicated to redesign the categories. Although search is the fastest way to find suitable 3D model, some customers prefer to navigate instead of using search. Moreover, such navigation is...

Inspired by Pumper’s descriptions, and also suggested by CGShape, we implemented Lowest price guarantee feature that will allow sellers to inform customers about lower prices. When you use this feature, customers will see this text at the top of your product page: This 3D model is X% cheaper on CGTrader.com than anywhere else. This feature is useful only if you have the same product on other 3d stock stores as well. Many of you might...

It is another great day and we proudly present the new publisher! This time we focused on easing the most boring but important matters like writing tags, description and file upload. It has new user interface and unique features to help 3D artists in their publishing process. We hope you will enjoy them! Recommended tags tool is designed to speed up the process of writing of tags. Being 3d designers ourselves we know how boring...

We’re extremely happy to announce CGTrader.com has left beta mode and is now operating under enhanced security requirements. We now fully ensure the security of 3D models uploaded for sale by artists as well as the reliability of financial transactions, so proudly deleted the words “open beta” from our logo (if you still see it, try to clear your cache). The stable mode brings many security improvements and bug fixes, related to an increase in...

It will be our first Christmas since we started CGTrader this year. We’ve already written letters to Santa and waiting our wishes to be fulfilled. What about you? Have you contacted Santa already Of course you haven’t! We know CG artists are busy people and have no time for such things, so we decided to make a Christmas gift for everyone of you. All 3D models, that will be published for sale in CGTrader.com from...

Good description is one of the most important things in selling 3D models. It is also one of the most underestimated things by many artists. The reason is clear - we have dedicated most of our time to perfecting our skills of pushing vertices, rigging, animating or making tiny adjustments to shaders. Whatever we do that makes us pride in visual arts, doesn’t help at all when it comes to copywriting (i.e. writing some simple...