Partners
Below is the information about sponsors and the products that are giveaways for the challenge.
Low Poly Vehicles from the Future Challenge Partners
MilkShape 3D is a low-polygon modeler, which was initially designed for Half-Life. MilkShape 3D has all basic operations like select, move, rotate, scale, extrude, turn edge, subdivide, just to mention a few. MilkShape 3D also allows low-level editing with the vertex and face tool. Standard and extended primitives like spheres, boxes, cylinders, etc. are available too.
MilkShape 3D is a skeletal animator. This allows to export to morph target animation like the ones in the Quake model formats or to export to skeletal animations like Half-Life, Genesis3d, Unreal, etc.
Textures.com is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials, including fabrics, wood, metal, bricks, plastic, and many more. These images are called textures and can be used for graphic design, visual effects, in computer games and any other situation where you need a nice pattern or background image.
SolidRocks
SolidRocks fully automates the complex setup of V-Ray. Professional Rendering in V-Ray never was easier.
PixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps. PixPlant includes a smart texturing engine and 3D map editors.
ShaderMap™ creates and converts rendering textures to different formats. It can also bake maps from 3D models. Easily tweak settings and preview changes in real-time.
Visual Designer 3D is an image rendering tool (3D Graphic Software) that has been designed exclusively to be ergonomic and workflow-friendly. If you ever get tired of managing multiple tools and complex parameters, you can rest assured that with Visual Designer 3D, you get everything you need in a complete 3D Graphic software package.
Cheetah3D is a powerful and easy to learn 3D modeling, rendering and animation application which was developed from the ground up for Mac OS X. So jump right into the world of computer generated imaging, create 3D artwork for your next iPhone game or make your first animated character.
iCube R&D Group brings together leading Russian 3D visualisation companies to develop and provide cutting edge and affordable tools for 3D visualisation industry.
VrayPattern is a plug-in for 3dsmax and V-Ray. VRayPattern allows you periodically multiply geometry without extra memory consumption. As a sample you can use any tiled geometry (or whose with unobtrusive joints). The plug-in best used where huge amount of geometries required, but without great accuracy.
Exlevel is delighted to offer GrowFX is a plant modeling and animation system for Autodesk 3ds Max. GrowFX lets you create broadleaf trees, conifers, palm trees, flowers, ivy and many other vegetational compositions. Its unique model building tools will help you create creeping plants, entwining scene objects, and shearing plants of any shape. Plants may bend around different objects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please go through these questions before contacting us
Do I need to upload files or only images of my 3D design?
You need to upload files and images of your 3D design in order to participate in the challenge.
I don't want to put my entry model for sale. Do you have any suggestions?
Does earning money from your digital files sounds like a bad idea? Just try to put higher price on it, let's say 300 USD.
I don't want to lose copyrights on my model after it is sold.
There are General, Editorial and Custom licenses for you to choose under which you want to operate. Individuals or companies that bought your model can't use it for commercial purposes if it hasn't been changed. So no worries - you won't lose the copyright.
How can I participate in the challenge?
Design a great looking 3D model for the challenge and upload it to CGTrader.
What if I put the required tag on my already published 3D model on CGTrader - do you treat it as a valid entry?
No. Only 3D models uploaded in the period from the 17th of November, 2016 to the 23rd of January, 2017 will be treated as valid entries.
Do free 3D models participate in the challenge?
Yes, absolutely. Sharing artwork is always appreciated in the community.
Can I enter with 3D models which participated in other challenges elsewhere?
Yes. There are no restrictions on publishing and selling your models elsewhere.
Do price tags play any importance when entries are being judged?
No. But do not forget that the prices are always judged by the customers.
I want to participate in the challenge so I am going to delete my already uploaded models and upload them again to meet the "publishing period" requirement. Can I do that?
No. We are tracking every deleted and uploaded model, so it is useless to drive-through our requirements of the challenge.