Matt Wisdom, CEO of TurboSquid, joined Aneesh Chopra, CTO and Associate Director for Technology in the Obama administration, and five New Orleans business leaders in a roundtable discussion Tuesday about how to use technology to spur the next generation of entrepreneurial leadership. The discussion, which took place at the Idea Village in downtown New Orleans, focused on strategies to foster …
Meet Member Services at TurboSquid
As the 3D modeling industry has grown and changed, so have customers’ needs at TurboSquid. You told us what you wanted in your support, and we listened. The result is a new approach to support that gives fast answers to technical questions about 3D models. In years past, the most common questions were things like “How do I download the …
TurboSquid, Falling Pixel, & Exchange3D
Over the past few months, we’ve been talking extensively to competing stock 3D sites FallingPixel.com and Exchange3D.com. The discussion has centered around challenges common to the whole industry—quality control and content certification, international languages and currencies, licensing rights and undercutting. We quickly realized that we at TurboSquid are not the only ones who are concerned about these issues. And while …
Introducing the TurboSquid 3D Modeling Series
For the past year, TurboSquid has been on a valiant quest. Our goal was to find the answer to this important question: “What is a quality 3D model?” We searched high and low for the answer. We looked at resources on the Internet. We read and re-read books on 3D modeling. We perused forums, both ours and outside ones, for …
Thumbnails for Search: No Borders Please!
When we’ve talked to our customers one-on-one about their experiences in searching for 3D models at TurboSquid, a theme keeps coming up: borders, text, and badges on Search images are unappealing, and can even make a product look unprofessional. Some artists use borders and text to make their models “stand out” in Search, but our customers feel differently. A clean …
TurboSquid Sighting: Ship Model on “House”
An episode in the seventh season of House, a popular American TV show, begins with a large sailing ship tossing on the waves during a violent storm as cannonballs explode around her. That sailing ship is a 3D model of the Golden Hind, a 16th century English galleon that is best known as the ship in which Sir Francis Drake …