As of today, we’re allowing prices of $49 and $99 in CheckMate Pro. This was a decision made after much consideration for our artists and customers. The new price tiers will open up CheckMate Pro to categories such as furniture, plants, and electronics. In these categories a high-quality model can have a much lower complexity than a vehicle or character, …
Happy Thanksgiving from TurboSquid!
Here in the United States, today is a traditional holiday where we sit down with family and friends for a meal of turkey, stuffing, and many other goodies. Part of the tradition is to express thanks for the many good things in life. At TurboSquid we’re grateful to our customers who make the site possible, but we reserve a special …
CheckMate October Milestones
With the CheckMate 3D Modeling Standards passing their three-month anniversary, we have a few important milestones to report. CheckMate Total Reaches 2000 TurboSquid now has over 2000 CheckMate certified 3D models in our catalog! Check out a few of our inspectors’ favorites below. CheckMate Sales Differential CheckMate 3D models now account for just under 0.9% of the TurboSquid catalog. In …
WebMoney Available for Royalties
More than half the artists the publish at TurboSquid are from outside the USA (158 countries in all!), so we offer a variety of payment methods for their monthly royalties. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added WebMoney as a payment method. WebMoney is a service similar to Paypal, where you can maintain an online bank account, withdraw funds, and …
CheckMate Tools Now Available
For some time, our in-house inspectors have been using tools to assist them in CheckMate Pro inspections. Each tool generates a report regarding ngons, flipped faces, isolated vertices, and a number of other model attributes related to CheckMate Pro inspection. Although the tools can only do so much (a manual inspection is always required to truly pass or fail a model), …
No Sacred Cows
You’ve probably noticed how much energy we’ve put into raising the quality of models on the site with CheckMate. We’ve also been removing lower quality models, but that rate is about to go up, by a lot. I wanted to give artists notice that this is coming. We’re going to focus on the very lowest quality first, and work …