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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...

If you are a customer looking to hire a freelance 3D designer, it’s easy to get lost among the options online. To make it easier for everyone, we’ve spent the last year researching, developing and implementing the features that would create the perfect freelance job site for 3D work. This platform is called CGTrader 3D Projects, and here are 5 reasons why it is the best platform for freelance 3D Projects online! 5. Safety and...

A bit over a week ago, we introduced a new feature which lets you create collections of 3D models with just a couple of clicks. Now, hundreds of new collections are on the marketplace, and we want to share some simple tips to help your collections become more attractive to potential buyers. To illustrate our points, we'll show you real examples of collections created by 3D designers on CGTrader. Add a detailed description We recommend...

Earn more revenue and sell your 3D assets up to 30% more often by easily creating 3D collections on CGTrader with our new feature. How to create a 3D model collection on CGTrader The stats CGTrader marketplace data is clear: items in collections are sold 30% more often in comparison to being sold as standalone items. More sales mean more revenue, and every item sold in collections earns 30% more revenue than when it’s sold...

alexbes dominated one of our previous PBR (Physically based rendering) challenges by winning in both categories. We asked him to answer a couple of questions about his design work, and he was very generous with his time, sparing no detail and going in-depth into his workflow. Bookmark this great interview and share it with your friends, because it really is a goldmine of PBR knowledge. Hello, alexbes, tell us a bit about yourself, how did...

CGTrader will be exhibiting at Siggraph 2018 in Vancouver and we’d love to meet you and chat! SIGGRAPH 2018 is the event to visit if you are interested in the latest innovations in CG, animation, VR, games, digital art, mixed reality and emerging technologies. The event will be running on 12-16 August, and CGTrader will be exhibiting at booth #818 on August 14-16. Siggraph has been running for 44 years, and this will be our...

You've asked for it and now it's here – from now on you can have Marmoset Viewer 360° 3D previews embedded in your product pages! We have been looking for a secure option to let your customers interact with the model and see it from all sides before purchase, and we believe we picked the best solution. To see how it looks on CGTrader, check the Marmoset embed used in this Katana Sword product page....

Attention sellers! Have you noticed you could specify the native file format of your models on CGTrader? A native file format is a file saved in the format of the original software application used to create the file. When you save a file in a non-native format, the application has to translate the data to that new format, and some information can be distorted or omitted in the process. This means that the native format...