Here at TurboSquid, we wanted to give a shout-out to our fellow mollusk, Paul the Psychic Octopus. Paul, who lives in an aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, correctly predicted the winner of Germany’s seven World Cup matches, as well as the Spain-Netherlands final. That’s as many games as Paul has legs! And how, exactly, were these predictions made? Before each match, …
Today’s site upgrades
The site was upgraded today to improve the Publisher and fix a number of small bugs. We’ve run through all the requests from those who were still using the old Publisher. After six months of fixes, upgrades, new features, and multiple contacts to all interested parties, we’ve removed the links to the old Download area, Product Manager, and Upload pages. …
TurboSquid at Siggraph 2010
TurboSquid will be attending Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles July 26-30. At the exhibition, we’ll be in the ATI booth (#301) demonstrating the use of TurboSquid products and services with the FirePro video cards with Eyefinity technology. Look for the squid on the dark blue shirt, and stop on by to say hello.
101 Uses for 3D Models
Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew — 3D models have more uses than taters. Instruction manuals. Cut open and pull apart a model, and use the pieces to illustrate the instructions for any technical process. Product faking. Need to show a person interacting with a product, but don’t have the product itself handy? Save the time and …
Iron Baby Comes to TurboSquid
In case anyone out there has missed it, there is a YouTube video that has caught fire recently called Iron Baby. Created by Jocelyn “Strob” Simard and his team, this viral video has gotten almost 5 million hits and is such a sensation that it got the attention of, and tweet from, Iron Man director Jon Favreau. What many of …
Dashboard and Reports now much faster
Last week we upgraded our Database Warehouse infrastructure. That’s the system that holds large data sets for reports, such as the Statistic reports you can access from your Dashboard. The infrastructure allows complex report requests to run in the background, so the reports themselves will come up faster when you request them. This new setup has shown dramatic increases in …