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Attention sellers! Have you noticed you could specify the native file format of your models on CGTrader? A native file format is a file saved in the format of the original software application used to create the file. When you save a file in a non-native format, the application has to translate the data to that new format, and some information can be distorted or omitted in the process. This means that the native format...

Happy news, everyone! Our community has reached an inspiring milestone – 1,500,000 members! This means that CGTrader has grown 6 times in the last 3 years! A new member join us every minute, and with each day we are becoming a massive force that is changing the 3D industry for the better. We strive to be the most designer-friendly 3D marketplace in the world for designers, while at the same time we are attracting customers...

In the end of March, we closed our PBR Interior Design Challenge, and after a thorough technical review we finally have the best of the best selected. We had two categories in this challenge: best model and best portfolio, each with three winners to be announced. Here are the winners among those who submitted more than 2 models that met all of the technical requirements and were of high aesthetic value. Portfolio category 3rd place...

We are introducing the new Batch Uploader, which lets you upload as many models as you want and manage them easily on your My Products page. To try out the Batch Uploader, all you need to do is prepare a single Batch folder with separate folders in it for each model. Do not forget to archive your textures, otherwise they will be recognized as preview images! An example of a Batch Upload file structure Afterwards,...

Our latest 3D design challenge was more about its message than the prizes or awesome models. We want to sincerely thank everyone for participating in the 3D Character: Female challenge and sharing their works with our community. Characters are one of the toughest categories of 3D modeling, which is why this challenge was especially demanding. Nevertheless, more than a 150 submissions participated in the challenge. We hope it will be the first domino that starts...

Just as we’re about to hit 1.5 million users, the Digital Top 50 awards, created by Google, McKinsey and Rocket Internet, have turned their attention to CGTrader and nominated us for the B2C Scaleup award! A part of the competition is the public vote, and you can help us win by casting your vote on the Tech Open Air (TOA) website: Visit https://toa.berlin/dt50 Find CGTrader in the B2C Scaleup category Watch our pitch and vote!...

For more than a decade, the team at Pilgway have been working on 3D-Coat. The company has become a strong partner of CGTrader, supporting 3D design challenges and other initiatives, the most recent one being our 3D Character: Female challenge, which invited designers to submit non-sexualized models of realistic and fantasy characters. We had the chance to talk to Andrew Shpagin and Stanislav Chernyshuk about their experience in 3D and the role ethics play in...

This week, we are celebrating our 7th birthday with a ball of 3D art, design and modeling! Read on to find out what drove us and the scale to which we have grown throughout the years. Our approach Ever since CGTrader first launched in May 2011, the goal of our company remained the same: to provide a transparent marketplace with fair fees and the best conditions for designers without limiting their freedom. At CGTrader, 3D...

Selling models on CGTrader is simple. All you need to do is create an account and upload your models. Customers buy 3D models and use them in their prototypes, art, visualizations or other projects, but, as a creator, you always keep full rights and ownership of the model. Here are some useful tips for those of you who want to sell scanned 3D assets. How to prepare scanned assets? We recommend you prepare 2-3 versions...

Use CGTrader 3D Projects and 'Hire me' requests for your freelance 3D projects to take advantage of our private workspaces, escrow and payment services for a total fee of only 5%. Finding custom modeling work has never been easier How it works The 3D Projects platform is very simple. All a customer needs to do is to go to the 3D Projects section and fill out a simple Project listing form, or select an artist...