3D industry news, site updates and tips from the TurboSquid 3D marketplace crew!
SIGGRAPH 2018 is almost here! This year’s conference spans over August 12-16 in Vancouver. Some of TurboSquid’s & PixelSquid’s finest will be present, so if you’re attending or just want to follow along through social media, here’s everything you’ll need to know. What does SIGGRAPH stand for? The Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive …
We’ve very excited to announce that we’re adding glTF to our growing list of StemCell supported formats, making 3D even more accessible to users around the globe.We plan to convert the entire existing StemCell library (which currently encompasses several thousand models) into glTF 2.0 content. All new StemCell models will automatically flow into glTF as part of our automation process. …
For this week’s artist guest post, we wanted to share a tutorial highlighting basic shapes with well-done textures. Stroiny Lucian, better known as 3Dslm in the TurboSquid community, includes some WIP videos of how he made his Wooden Toys model. While the models are simple in shape, the quality of the textures are the true meat and potatoes of this …
We’ve watched as 3D modeling has become more and more realistic, but we’ve also really enjoyed the trend of beautifully crafted low-poly styled models. Some artists even specialize in this style, like TurboSquid artist Vitaliy Provkin, or Vilitay. His collection boasts a large number of cute, low-poly models that would look right at home in a retro video game. Our …
We’ve just released a feature that has been long requested by many of our most frequent customers: Express Checkout. This feature is designed with our power users in mind. You can now save a default purchasing method from within your Cart, and then use that payment method to quickly purchase individual models directly from the product page. This means that …
Back in January, we launched our StemCell Program to the TurboSquid Artist community. Since then, more and more artists have been working directly with the TurboSquid staff, building models to our spec, and getting through the rigorous training materials. Thanks to everyone’s hard work, our StemCell catalog is now at over 1,600 3D models and counting, in less than 3 …
