Interviews

“This island is revered by the tribes living on adjacent islands as a place where the heaven meets the earth - a forbidden ground. Some tribesmen are banished here for their crimes, some go here voluntarily to mine precious minerals and harvest rare plants. All must fight for their lives though as the island is populated by the dragons of the old times...” These are the lines you read in the description of a new...

Elizabeth Henning from University of Virginia is awarded CGTrader scholarship In the fall of 2016 CGTrader has started its first ever CGTrader Essay Competition inviting students from the U.S. to submit their essays on the topic “The Future of Virtual Reality: On the Footsteps of Changing the World or on the Brink of Failure?”. Out of all the submissions, CGTrader representatives has chosen the submission by a 19-year old Elizabeth Henning from Virginia Beach the...

Partnership with Stephen Burks marks a new stage for CGTrader in licensing branded 3D content February 24 th CGTrader is officially launching a licensing-focused partnership with one of the stars in the US furniture design space Stephen Burks. Stephen Burks, who is running his own Stephen Burks Man Made design studio, received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in product design and beginning in 2015. As of January 2017, Stephen is designer-in-residence at the A/D/O....

Today CGTrader team is talking with Marek Denko - a 3D artist born in Slovak Republic in 1980, and currently enjoying the life of a small town close to Prague in Czech Republic. Since 2007, Marek is running a design studio NoEmotion, which has worked on projects like Fallout 4 Power Armor and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege among others. Both personal and client work made by Marek Denko and his team are always state...

Alex has been sharing his stunning 3D renders and tutorials with our community for some time now, and we couldn't walk away from an opportunity to have a nice little chat with him. Turns out his works make the modeling job look so much easier than it really is - and he himself knows it can be a very bumpy ride at the start. Read his captivating story about his learning process, best works and...

We've had a short but nice talk with Deniz Ergürel, founder & editor of Virtual Reality news outlet Haptic.al. Deniz gave us his two cents about the market, possibilities, obstacles and predictions on both Virtual reality and Augmented reality. All you need to do is grab your coffee and get to reading! It sometimes seems that we have an egg-chicken problem with VR: device adoption would be faster if there would be more content -...

Guido Vrola is a great guy who made this Zbrush video tutorial on modeling crabs (who might later turn out to be of the "giant enemy" kind and with a weakspot underneath). He's also a versatile modeler with years of experience under his belt. Guido is also a CGTrader challenge winner! Read all about his journey to modeling success in this interview! Tell us about yourself - what do you do, where are you based?...

Andrew Krivulya, also known as Charly, started small, yet always dreamed big. And here he is, telling us his life story and sharing his valuable industry insight with you! He also makes tutorials! How did you start with 3D modeling? When I was 12 y.o., my friend gave me a present – a 3Ds max 5 disc! I loved playing games and I wanted to create my own worlds and characters, so my friend said...

Tristan Bethe is working on 3D scanning, but he had a wild ride before he got to be where is he now. What was his journey towards doing something we only imagined in sci-fi? Find out in the interview! How did you get into the 3D art sphere? Between ‘94 and ‘98 I was attending a school for graphic design here in the Netherlands. I liked to draw and this seemed to be the matching...

You can't buy everything - and sometimes, you don't even need to! The great artists in our community often upload free models to give people a taste of their skill. We wanted to make a list of the best free models on CGTrader and we had a hard time doing it - you have uploaded so many free models! But we huffed and we puffed and we made this list of 30 best free 3D...