What do you get when you mix a 3D artist’s eye for photography with gritty, neon-soaked sci-fi worlds inspired by Blade Runner? The environments and objects of TurboSquid artist 3denvironmentmodels. Read on to learn more about 3denvironmentmodels’s influences, what considerations he makes when selling models on TurboSquid, and advice he’d offer for other 3D artists. Just crank up some synthwave …
The Search for the Next Model Exchange Format
3D as an industry has seen rapid change since its inception. Buyouts, mergers, and takeovers often mean that products can often outlive the companies that created them. Asking a question as simple as ‘who made .obj?’ is a story in itself, and, while researching this piece, took me through a trip of the history of the 3D industry – one …
Making a Quad Sphere: 3ds Max, Maya, & Cinema 4D
We’re going to go over how to make a quad sphere in 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D, for CheckMate Pro v2. The default sphere is problematic because of the two poles. By itself, a standard sphere does not seem to pose any problems, but when it comes time to subdivide, the differences in polygon density at the equator and …
3D Models Swim Out of the Box on YouTube
As we’re always on the lookout for good uses of TurboSquid’s 3D models, we were thrilled at the most recent sighting. A blog post by Future Media Concepts of Orlando provides a detailed account of how 3D animator Jean Marco Ruesta not only brought four TurboSquid models to life, but also how he pushed them outside the YouTube player’s boundaries to …