CheckMate Products Now Editable

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Until now, you haven’t been able to edit CheckMate products. We have now opened up editing so you can tweak and adjust your CheckMate products. There are two levels of changes you can make. Critical Change – Temporary Badge Loss If you make a change to the price or to the model itself, the CheckMate badge is temporarily removed. The inspection …

Pimp that Product!

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TurboSquid is starting a new series of free webinars called “Pimp that Product!” The idea is to take a 3D model published years ago and freshen up its presentation for 2012. These webinars are open to all TurboSquid members. The first Pimp that Product! webinar will be held on Thursday, February 2 at 8am PST. You can find time conversion information on …

Artist Spotlight: QLEE

TurboSquid CheckMate, Site

We’ve just updated our homepage image to show a fabulous VW Beetle 3D model by TurboSquid artist QLEE. This prolific artist has a wide variety of content at TurboSquid, over 1600 models in all, with more than 100 in our CheckMate certification program. QLEE’s work, particularly his vehicle and machinery models, have been featured numerous times in books and magazines …

80% Discount on Substances Textures

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Allegorithmic is selling their Substance collections at TurboSquid for a whopping 80% off during the holiday season! These intelligent textures offer infinite variations of architectural materials like brick, concrete, and stones. So forget about Santa. For the price of a bottle of eggnog, you can put these stunning textures into your own holiday stocking. Here are some of the collections discounted: …

Improving Quality at TurboSquid

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In a blog post a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how we’re ramping up the removal of low-quality 3D models that don’t sell. The goal is to remove the clutter that no one will ever buy, and leave a fantastic selection of great 3D models in every search result. Our customers are artists themselves; if it doesn’t look good, …

New Product Features at TurboSquid

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Today we launched two new features for 3D models. Minimum Five Preview Images In order to publish a 3D model, you now must upload a minimum of 5 preview images. We made this change because we found that customers have a very strong preference for 3D models with several images. Simply put, customers need to know what a model looks …