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 …
CheckMate Queue Page
If you have already submitted to CheckMate, you know that tracking the progress of your model in the certification process was a bit of a chore. We would like to thank everyone for being patient during the submission process and not bombarding the team asking for status updates. The good news is that we now offer you the ability to …
TurboSquid at VIEW Conference
Michele Bousquet and Beau Perschall of TurboSquid presented a talk Tuesday at the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy. A mix of 3D professionals and aspiring visual effects artists attended the talk entitled “CheckMate: 3D Modeling Standards for Today’s Pipelines.” Presenting in the same hall were Pixar’s Sharon Calahan on lighting techniques for Cars 2, and Gavin Graham of Double Negative on VFX for …
CheckMate News and Events
VIEW Conference TurboSquid will be giving a presentation on CheckMate 3D Modeling Standards at the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy on October 25 at 4:30pm in the Cavour Room. The VIEW Conference takes place at the Torino Incontra Oct 25-28. At our presentation we’ll talk about the research behind CheckMate, the standards themselves, and early results from implementing CheckMate at …