The release of Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant, Non-Heinous 360 Adventure Through Space and Time As We Know It just weeks before the much anticipated franchise sequel Bill and Ted Face the Music, was a delightful and well-received surprise. The 360° short film, takes the watcher on a trip from the perspective of the most excellent duo in history, Bill and Ted and features several TurboSquid models along the way. We discussed the project with Pixel Dash Studios’ James Beegle, the Senior 3D Artist on the project in this article
Adam Savage 3D Printed His Comic-Con Helmet from a TurboSquid Model
Adam Savage, known best as the star and executive producer of MythBusters, has translated his talent and fame into several popular ventures, including his website and YouTube Channel, Tested, where he combines his love for all things engineering and nerd culture. Any true fan knows that Adam regularly attends Comic-Con and other large conventions incognito in a cosplay of his …
How VFX Artist Jon Finger Uses TurboSquid in His Workflow
VFX and TurboSquid go hand-in-hand. One of our favorite games to play at TurboSquid is Spot that Asset, where we try to find models by TurboSquid artists on television and in major motion pictures. While the TurboSquid market is great for large production studios, it’s also an accessible tool for smaller projects as well. This month, we chatted with VFX …
Bringing inXile’s The Mage’s Tale to Life
Long-time customer and partner (and our New Orleans neighbor) inXile Entertainment has utilized TurboSquid for years as a quick and cost-effective tool for bringing their rich, world-building games to life as an independent studio. inXile uses TurboSquid for early game prototyping, all the way through final development, to populate their worlds with props and elements to save on vital manpower. Recently, inXile …
Tattoo realism reimagined with Tattooed Theory’s Javier Antunez
3D models are commonplace tools in most industries that deal in digital, but how useful can 3D be when screens are removed from the mix entirely? We recently became aware of a very singular use case for TurboSquid’s 3D catalog: tattoos. We sat down with Javier Antunez, owner and popular realist artist at Tattooed Theory to hear more about his …
Sighting: RenderDigimania
RenderDigimania is a rapid animation production renderer, developed to to allow animators to animate, light, and shoot their characters and objects in a setting that gives them real time previews. In other words, it wants to make 3D animation a lot faster, without having to waste a lot of time rendering.