Interviews

Nobody is born into game development (except for Cliffy B, who just sprung out fully formed out of a monitor one day). Vlada "Vzladka" Romaieva, known as "Lowlypoly" to the community started with architecture and ended up working as an environment artist for Crytivo Games. Find out how in this interview! Tell us a little about yourself. How did you start with 3D modeling and texturing? I graduated from university as an architect in 2010,...

We at CGTrader have a tremendous amount of faith in virtual reality being the next big thing. And without a doubt, mobile VR will be the one to introduce the most people to this new technological era. That's why we had several questions to the developers of the snazzy Freefly VR mobile headset and they agreed to tell us about our glorious future. Proteus VR Labs: How did the company get established? How did Freefly...

Have you tried studying 3D modeling to get into the game development industry? Because that method worked for CGTrader user Zura! Read on to learn his success story! Tell us a little about your yourself. I’m a 19-year-old 3D game artist living in Georgia (Europe), studying and working at ‘’StormBringer Studios’’, an indie game development studio. How did you start with 3D modeling ? I personally started studying 3D 3 years ago and I was...

Broken Vector is a small and young team of ambitious artists who are creating 3D assets to fund their game development dreams! Tell us a little about your team/studio. Broken Vector is a small team of independent game developers. We started working together about a year ago. Since then we made the Winter Quest game and quite a few assets, Unity plugins and 3D models. We also recently launched our website, which contains all the...

Tim "Chamferzone" Bergholz has worked with Crytek and is currently employed by Ubisoft. He also makes so totally sweet weapon models that will sweep you of your feet. Here's his story! Tell us a little about yourself. How did you start with 3D modeling or texturing? It all started around 2005 after Half Life 2 released. Back then I just finished my education as a media designer, mostly focusing on creating print adverts and working...

There's hardly anything "traditional" about Tesla cars (aside from the "four wheels" thing), but Aybars Turan, a man trained in traditional painting and sculpting, works there. Read on to learn of his story! Can you tell us a little about yourself? My name is Aybars Turan, I was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. I studied traditional painting and sculpting both in Turkey and NY, USA. I was very inspired by digital art and I...

Didier Konings works with movies, making digital matte paintings and concept art. Never the less, 3D modeling helps him with composition in an almost cinematographic way. Read on about his adventures and experience! Tell us a little about yourself and how you go into the industry? My name is Didier Konings from the Netherlands. I’m currently Lead Digital Matte Painter at the Aaron Sims Company in Los Angeles, CA. I specialize in digital matte painting...

Say hello to Okdraw, an ambitious team of architectural modelers. It's a two man team, so you could even call them a dynamic duo! We gave them a few questions and they told us all about architectural modeling and exacting detail in models. Tell us a little about your team. We're a two-man team of an architect and a product designer who love to create new worlds, spaces and objects. How did you start with...

Rev the engines, clean the barrels, fire up the plasma drives and lock-on missiles, it‘s the 3D VR-Military Challenge! There are no strict categories in with this one. Be it a rifle, a tank, a jet fighter or giant mecha – everything war related can enter. As long as it is low poly (has less than 50.000 polygons), it can stand to win! 3D 'VR-Military' Challenge will run from the 15th of March, 2016, to...

Having 14 years of experience in 3D modeling is something. I shudder to think about the kind of computers they had to use back then. But Şemsa Bilge perseveres and endures. That why we couldn’t help but have her for an interview. And here she is, pouring the wisdom of the years for us all to hear. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was born in 1979 in Ankara, Turkey. In 2002,...