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Neil Blevins is a 3D artist that needs no introduction – his multi-decade spanning career in 3D art and design has seen him working in a multitude of mediums, including feature films at Pixar, creating art for fascinating books and video games, and becoming one of the most prominent digital concept artists in the world. We had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Neil about his career, inspiration and the 3D industry. We hope you...

CGTrader, one of the world's leading 3D model marketplaces, offers integration of its technology with the Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify. As part of the integration, CGTrader will help Shopify to create an all new shopping experience using 3D modeling and Augmented Reality (AR). The merchants on Shopify will be able to access CGTrader's services through the Shopify experts’ site. “This integration can help businesses turn their products into a 3D visual format using the latest...

We are very happy to announce the winners of the CGTrader Digital Art Competition. This was our greatest and biggest art contest yet, and it proved to be extremely successful, as it attracted over 6,500 works of digital art from creatives working with 2D and 3D visual mediums. You can see the great artworks of the winners in all six categories (and the Public award) below. If you are curious what prizes the winners are...

Editing your drafts on CGTrader just got a lot easier. Today, our Batch Uploader gets the perfect pair – the Batch Draft Editor! Now you can not only upload your whole portfolio in one go, but also add details and descriptions to multiple product drafts at once. This means that you can take care of almost the whole publishing process for any number of 3D models very quickly. See how easy it is to upload...

The Digital Media Licensing Association (DMLA) will hold its Annual Conference on 21-23 October in Marina del Rey, California. Our CEO Dalia Lasaite will participate in the expert panel on The Challenge of Selling Motion Graphics and 3D. '3D design is the future, due to the rapid growth of such technologies as artificial reality. 3D design requires talent, complex technical skills and a significant amount of time, therefore 3D designers are highly sough after,' Dalia...

Deloitte, an international management consulting and audit company, has just announced the winners of the Fast 50 program, which recognizes the fastest growing Central European companies in technology. CGTrader is featured in the Rising Star category for the second consecutive year. Dalia Lasaite, the CEO of CGTrader, credits these achievements to bringing much needed fresh air into the 3D industry: ‘CGTrader was born with the notion that the market lacks a democratic place for 3D...

Our developers have been working hard to bring you improvements and new services on CGTrader. Just in the last month, we have rolled out several great updates: 3D model collections, 3D Projects. Now, the time has come to unveil the new 3D model Publisher! Find out what’s new: watch our video and read this post! Single page 3D model publishing The Publisher lets you upload your files, name and describe models, set and rearrange preview...

This year, we set out on an ambitious goal: to bring together 2D and 3D digital art under the CGTrader Digital Art Competition. As the September 30 deadline draws ever nearer, there’s less than a week left to jump in and enter your works! More than 3,200 artworks are vying for prizes worth more than $60,000 in the CGTrader Digital Art Competition, which has already surpassed our last massive art competition, the CGTrader Awards 2017,...

We have taken your valuable feedback and launched a major update to the freelance 3D Projects platform on CGTrader! CGTrader 3D Projects is an easy to use 3D freelancing platform. It provides a dedicated private 3D-friendly work space for customers and designers at the leading 3D model marketplace. The inexpensive and highly specialized platform has been gaining more attention over the years, and, as more people and businesses collaborated on various design work and shared...

Just two months ago we celebrated our last milestone – 1.5 million users, and now we’re inches away from reaching 700,000 3D models on the marketplace! CGTrader has been growing very fast and we have you to thank for it – in just three short years, our database has grown fivefold! To celebrate this achievement, we’re launching a sale until September 30 – a day for every hundred thousand models on CGTrader. The speed of...