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Look, it's a Superman! No, it's a bird! No, it's a plane! Planes are something that always attracts people attention, as it is always fascinating to see a huge steel machine flying. Since the period of Renaissance and incredible inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, people tried to find out how they could fly. You know the rest - The Wright Brothers, their experiments, the beginning of the aviation and it went just in a snap....

CGTrader designers are so talented, that buyers sometimes think their models are real. A car for 119 USD? A pair of shoes for 30 USD? No wonder the customers sometimes get confused with these amazing, photorealistic 3D models available for sale. And yet, 3D models are actually becoming real. 3D printing can turn many digital 3D models to real, physical products. This technology is becoming a viable alternative to factories and production lines, changing the...

After freezing cold winter finally came long waited spring. Just several steps separate us from the summertime all of us are dreaming about. Summer season for some of us means laying at the beach on the seaside, for others – riding a bike to work, going to the village for a rest, gathering berries in the forest, travelling abroad: climbing the mountains or maybe visiting exotic places. Unfortunately, those several steps are still separating us...

It is expected that 3D printing will explode in 2014. A few key patents are going to expire this year. It will provide ability to use the materials which had not been available for use freely for 3D printing. That will create broader possibilities to use 3D printing to manufacture parts for final products introduced to the market. In other words, new 3D printing opportunities will provide a possibility to use more materials for production....

There is Meme 3D Printing Challenge going on CGTrader right now. That is right, we invited 3D designers to turn memes into 3D printable items. While a challenge is taking place, we surfed the net to collect some of the best examples of 3D printable memes. As there are more than 2 weeks left till the end of the challenge, we have selected 10 3D printable models which are good examples of internet memes turned...

„We may never look at socks the same way again“ – this sentence was written in one of the websites and it is not hard to guess what it was about. This week was a start of social media campaign „Cock in the sock“, which was intended to raise awareness for testicular cancer. There are about 25 000 posts with #cockinthesock hashtag on Instagram, thousands of Facebook posts and tweets with photos of men supporting...

CGTrader is back with a new feature, once again. Bitcoin payments are here! Have you heard about this digital currency which is a part of payment revolution happening online? It is taking part on CGTrader as well. So, the members of our community can take advantage and use this immediate way to pay for their purchases or to get payments for their 3D models. We encourage buyers to try this payment possibility and pay lower...

The life looks quite normal out here on Earth. Meanwhile, a battle is still happening out there in the future. A battle for Space. Polyguardians and Enraged Verticians are in a ferocious fight which will end in the 17th of March, 2014. 3D Sci-Fi Challenge is still going on. You still can upload your work and take a part in this battle for Universe. We decided to surf through the worldwideweb and pick some of...

The ceremony of Academy Awards passed, but, once again, Leonardo DiCaprio did not get an Oscar. The only thing he got was a huge amount of memes related to his frustrating experience of becoming a runner-up in the category of Best Actor. A lot of his fans got disappointed as it was expected that this year will be the time for Leo to be awarded after four times being nominated. CGTrader team decided: if Leo...

Dear Community, We are very excited to announce today that we have raised a funding round from Intel Capital and our existing investor Practica Capital. Just two years ago, our small start-up had the outrageous idea of establishing a designer-friendly marketplace for buying and selling 3D models. You – our community members believed in this vision and made it yours. We started last year with around 1,000 users and 8,000 3D models. More than 30,000...