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, …
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 …
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 …