Insight

Last month we announced the winners of our 3D Challenge: Space. We got in touch with them and asked a couple of questions about their design work. Now, with the well-deserved spotlight on them, we give you their answers. Tell us a bit about yourselves. How did you start 3D modeling? jackfurneri1984: I'm an Italian 3D artist with a Master’s degree in 3D Computer Animation held at the University of Kent (Canterbury - UK). My...

Dekogon Studios is a collective of top artists in the gaming industry. We got the chance to talk to its founder, Clinton Crumpler, who told us what Dekogon is focused on now and shared some insights about the 3D modeling industry. Clinton, tell us a bit about how Dekogon Studios came about and what you do. Dekogon is an artist collaborative group, our work is created by a collective of multiple contributing top-talent artists from...

Have you ever felt bored before starting a new project? Uninspired? Unmotivated? Idealess? Well, we might just help you out! See, we’ve talked to the winners of our CGTrader Awards 2017 and asked them to tell us their sources of inspiration. As the answers kept coming in, we realized we had a treasure chest of inspiring, interesting and just down right beautiful advice! We wanted to share these nuggets with you and hope you get...

If you've ever been on CGTrader's marketplace, you probably noticed that apart from the paid models, there are the free ones and those, that do not exceed even 5$, too. And with all the new models being uploaded to our site, sometimes it is hard to keep track of the new fresh items. We're here to help you out! Take a look below to find the free models and models below 5$, that have been...

There’s no denying that art allows us to bring our day to day life to new places. However, some 3D creations manage to stand out of the crowd nowadays thanks to their great immersive factor and unique attention to detail. 3D art can be visually impressive and, as you can see from the following list, the human imagination can lead to some breathtaking, astonishing results. Here are some of the best 3D creations created recently....

We are back again with some more great tutorials to cap off this month. If you liked the previous iteration of this post, you'll like this one too! #10 Modeling A Golden Fish In 3ds Max by aziz khan Tired of modeling guns and human characters the whole day? Want a piece of that sweet, sweet animal category pie? Then this tutorial is just for you. Aziz Khan will show you how to model a...

If you're making a video game, why not make it a medieval or medieval fantasy game? Fantasy is great, especially when you can crib Tolkien's stuff and coast all the way to Steam Store. Of course, it would be easier if you didn't have to craft every last piece and asset of your medieval work. We understand that, and that's why our first article about low poly assets for $50 or less is focused on...

Imagination lets us create stuff that couldn't exist in real life. And 3D artists have an even easier time creating something fantastical and surreal. Well look at this, a list of 27 mind-blowing CG artworks that fit those criteria! Would you look at that! The Creator by Soren Zaragoza Software used: Zbrush, Keyshot, Photoshop Everything they told you about where babies come from is a lie. In truth, all babies are created by this guy....

Everybody needs to be inspired sometimes. Especially when one is doing such hard and intensive work as animation or VFX. Well, lucky for you, we have editors scouring internet for the tastiest morsels of inspiration. We present to you the editor's choice of VFX reels that will inspire you to reach new heights in your craft! Axis 2016 Animation Reel by Axis Animation Featuring clips from Halo and many other AAA games, this reel is...

We made the call and the community answered! You simply flooded us with a variety on tutorials on various 3D modeling related topics (and one on planting shrubberies). But which are the Top 10 tutorials on CGTrader? Well, here they are! # 10 Photorealistic Rendering: Vray and Mental ray by jamiec Simply rendering stuff is easy. Making it look like it's photorealistic (and fitting for a hundred "can you guess if it's real or CGI"...