We are excited to announce that our latest art competition is open to all 3D artists! This year’s theme is Dystopia/Utopia–a perfect opportunity to flex your creative muscles! The contest is open to all 3D artists – you don’t have to be a seller on TurboSquid to participate. We’re interested to see how our community interprets Dystopian and Utopian life. Big picture, slice-of-life, …
Artist Guest Post: 3Dslm
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 …
Artist Guest Post: Vilitay
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 …
Artist Guest Post: YurkP – Preparing Models for Unreal Engine
YurkP’s final installment is ready for your viewing pleasure, just in time for the holidays. This portion is specifically designated to preparing models for Unreal Engine. If you’d like to read any of the other articles in this series, you can do so…
More of our recent staff favorites
Here’s more of our hand-picked staff favorite 3D models for the month. If you’d like to view all of our new models…
Artist Guest Post: YurkP – Working with Maps
Only 2 more installments in YurkP’s wonderfully detailed tutorial of his Cuban House of Diversity model. This week, it’s all about maps, stitching and converting them in Photoshop to use with V-Ray renderer. You can read other parts of this tutorial here.