Around the holiday season, we get a lot of phone calls that start with, “I ordered this iPod as a gift, when will it be shipped?” And it’s not just electronics. From music boxes to guns, many of our 3D models are confused with real items by customers new to online shopping. Does this bother us? Not really. It just …
New Price Tiers for CheckMate Pro
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, …
Happy Thanksgiving from TurboSquid!
Here in the United States, today is a traditional holiday where we sit down with family and friends for a meal of turkey, stuffing, and many other goodies. Part of the tradition is to express thanks for the many good things in life. At TurboSquid we’re grateful to our customers who make the site possible, but we reserve a special …
WebMoney Available for Royalties
More than half the artists the publish at TurboSquid are from outside the USA (158 countries in all!), so we offer a variety of payment methods for their monthly royalties. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added WebMoney as a payment method. WebMoney is a service similar to Paypal, where you can maintain an online bank account, withdraw funds, and …
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 …