Doesn't seem so. My friend didn't get any support. It is a shame that cg trader has so few people using it but turbosquid has been going for some time now and is very well established. People are followers they have always been and always will be. This used to be the case in TS as well, but the issue is being solved, this will have to happen here on CGTrader as well. I doubt the owner will say no to a hefty clump sum, no questions asked, in exchange for site keys and source. With only a few days on CG trader, i can already see it is miles ahead of turbosquid. TS is simply in decline getting worse and worse. Cgtrader really goes above and beyond with the customer service side of things. Sometimes 3D model can have some errors, or it was not 100% what buyer had imagined it will be. f9acb067-ba84-4d38-8a65-8d3c4249a700Zoom.jpg httpswww.turbosquid.com3d-modelsfemale-rigged-3d-model1041167 --GENERAL-- This is hight quality female model with animation friendly topology. That's how they won and that is how you succeed in business. That is very strong argument in favor of CGT, but then again, don't you think that corporate client would rather choose to get support from team of profesionals that are available 24/7, than from unknown person, who might respond with big delay or not respon at all? Sketchfab.com-------------------------------. Rigged 3D Female Models | TurboSquid Anybody else suffered the same blows to their sales in the same months as the web updates? Most people don't care a bit about all this. Chocofur.com6. There is other sellers that don't have any problem doing the same:
Cgtrader user interface is much more user friendly. 3D Model characters people woman This is a photorealistic high-quality 3D full-body scan female character It has been sculpted and optimized for animation and game engines with a clean topology. Bala - Female Rigged Character 3D model 3D - TurboSquid 2034950 When I asked why they don' want pay for that they have suspended my products ( 428) products they did not say anything after. 2. Of those limited people just a hand full would actually buy models or put money towards models so if TS already has won those people we need to find our own nitch or we go out of business. this issue frequently occurs when a seller wants to break a competitor. I hope ideas of exclusivity get replaced by inclusive ones all over the globe. Nice try. Answer: IN my opinion Turbosquid is a great site for selling models. Contact your Shutterstock Customer Success Manager, $10,000 in Legal Protection (Indemnification), Uncapped Legal Protection (Indemnification), $1,000,000 in Legal Protection (Indemnification), $250,000 in Legal Protection (Indemnification). Turbosquid / CGTrader - Photorealistic Female Rigged There is a lamp that looks pretty cool (Gervasoni Bolla Floor light), and is supposedly free. The problem is that the site is not able to get a clear separation between CG and 3D printing. What's lacking? So what I did was simply adding the 60% cut to the product on Ts. That place is dead for me. clients will come where is a big diversificated data base of quality models (not only printable models) and artists will come where paying clients are. I agree with the last post, searching for models should not be a pain. i have sold it to millenium shipping containers amongst other professional business. Downloading 3D Models from any website - YouTube I agree to what captainmarlowe is telling. I tried to edit the obj for him and renounced because of the bad quality, especially, UVs and material names that were impossible to edit, such as mat000_0571 and other flaws ; he also bought a model of a bad quality from TS but was offered a refund immediately even on a sunday ; he posted his experience on our forum ; needless to say that others members of this community won't consider, now, CGTrader as a top quality website), same with people starting everyday a new irrelevant thread on the forums just to take advantage of the reputation system, which was a good idea, but which was hijacked by some unscrupulous sellers. New content is not provided to the on "Turbo" site. The last handful of successful high end 3D studios still buy those models because they know that the scenes have to be clean, geometry has no odd manifold or abnormal issues and the modelers have to jump through all kinds of hoops to ensure the quality of the model including providing high quality 360 renders. They will be very enlightening and useful to you especially if you have never built 3D models and don't know what to expect. I would like to see similar stats from other sellers, but CGtrader has been the 3D marketplace with the higher increase in sales for us without a doubt. Most of the Ts artists also moved their work over here and almost everyone knows that, just not the ones hoe are exclusive, it's not going to take too long now before they systematically start breaking the exclusive contract when they see sales going down every month and things going up over here. A few months went by with my models offline and during that time my GCt sales gradually went up at a level consistent with the few sales I had left behind on Ts so I just deleted all my models at Ts. However, the behavior of these clients kept me thinking and I had some dilemmas about what was actually going on here. Advertising? According to TS "Marmoset Toolbag's watermark" is an overlay and a no no. And good thing that you decided to tell about - such things should go public and be discussed. Maybe they think Ts provides almost same model but its just better, etc. They have a CheckMate program which gives you a higher percentage back from selling your model. I wanted to test if clients compare sites (eventually wanted to avoid clients would use the expensive Ts platform to get my items). stores with its own labels for 3D printing, 3D stock, crowdfunding, game models maybe even concept designs, sound files, storytellers, code for making apps, 3D scripts, etc) Each of this stores would then again have subcategories (e.g. personally CGTrader is the second site where I realize more sales, I think we should avoid generalizing his own experience. Large studios with "turbosquid" collaborate very limitedly. No matter how many 3D models you need, we'll take care of it. Rigged Female 3D Models | CGTrader I have to agree. That takes longer time. I agree with Captainmarlowe than one of the most important ideas to develop is more "education" for Sellers about all aspects involved in this business, and some kind of system that favors good and fair business practices and penalizes bad ones. There is indeed much structural work that needs to be done here but the core foundation/principal is here. In my personal opinion TS is working very hard towards buyers and exploits sellers as much as they can, well except few chosen ones, while CGT is taking great care about sellers, but leaving buyers somewhat aside. People may think that having that option makes it more likely for sellers to see their work by placing their models in the incorrect category but actually that just irritates buyers who may just go elsewhere to buy. CG Trader is easier to navigate, more stimulating perhaps than turbo squid. And CG Trader offers up to 94% royalty rate, where as Turbo Squid gives I believe 60% royalty rate CG Trader more open than Turbo Squid, and when registering, requires less personal information. Ps. Yes indeed! Sometimes you have to support the buyer. Often offer to buy the models in 1020 times more expensive than the price at which the model was exhibited for sale. But hey thats your call, That's sad, but true. although, the 3d printing industry is growing rapidly :D. I have to agree. Based on those traffic stats CGtrader would clearly benefit from more advertisement out there. Gumroad. And something ells , I have seen people criticize the young inexperienced and even blame them to some point for some negative experiences over here. Products are subject to the TurboSquid, Inc. I'm about to bail on this site now - unless I can find any other topics that I might be qualified to post toapparently if I'm friendly enough I can earn some points, but it's seriously unlikely that I'll find any topics to which I can actually contribute. The duality of 3D printing/CGmodels is a very complex marriage. Turbosquid has too many models Having said that creating models of that high end quality is quite the burden on 3D modelers who just do it as a hobby or work 3D part time so a lot of artists are moving away from TS because they can't sell their regular models on there anymore. If CGT wants to play big and attract high quality traffic and designers/buyers, it has to invite the sellers to opt for a more mature approach in my humble opinion. My price at the time was same both on Ts as on CGt but after some time position on CGt got better and sales was picking up. In my understanding, for CG models, there are three main trends : large public with various expectations and low budget (roughly, poser people) ; professionals needing a good quality model quick and ready to pay for that (roughly, TS buyers), programmers wanting to create video games in search of game ready assets. [quote]1. I could go on and on, it kept me puzzled. The fact that you can upload models immediately rather than waiting 3 months for them to get reviewed by some random people that won't have the time + the website design and the community inside CGTrader. Guys really have the potential to screw greedy monopoly and earn some decent position on the market. Chat with Support 24/7 You have insufficient credit to complete your purchase. I wont be using TurboSquid due to their royalty system and the fact that I would have to hunt down non-existing forms to prove I am not an American resident and thus avoid paying 30% govt. I do agree with you regarding the search engine. Turbosquid is the exact opposite. Escorts jaipur when cgtrader change his frontpage i stop selling products bad :(. We will only contact you if there's a problem with an order. Sometimes you have to support the buyer. I do feel cg trader gives the artists a better price and the share is fair . its hard to run such a business so i hope cgtrader will survive in the future. @limonadinis I don't get paid until the 3rd, but I thought I'd download some things, look at their quality, fill up a cart and get prepared to purchase when the money comes around. FREE 3D MODELS for Blender (And how to use them) - YouTube Site issues? That is the most important reason for them to be on CGTrader and it is essential to reward them for helping artist and the site earn money! A own store where you can fill your offers with stuff found in the large pool would account for a thumbs up for the people hoes products get placed in those stores. The basic approach would be that every user start with a selection of a store template (including own label option and menu creation capability's) and starts filling his store with own products and products found in the large collective database.
in the name of freedom expression of the buyer (???). Answer (1 of 7): I'm a CGtrader member for almost two years now and in my opinion it is the best platform for stock media developers available today. Maybe it is unnecessary complex? TS beside ripping off taxes have a terrible support, I just was told in the civilized manner to F OFF, as I complained on an admin who kept my 3D model suspended for over 4 days. Site issues? This is inherently due to the fact that computers are still very bad when it comes to optimization processes, human brains are far more superior in sorting out things. You are clearly one of the professional buyers who doesn't take advantage of the system but there are so many out there who do that and 3D sites are beginning to try to safe guard their artist's work by not making it so easy to just get everything you want for free. Its great way to compete and fair . You can change your subscription preferences at any time in the account settings. The conclusion seems, that clients are either more familiar with Tsquid, or that TSquid offers something else that is so valuable that even a much lower price doesn't matter. It is also wise to invest in good ideas that are future proof. A good ref point is that your average laptop with Dual Pentium 2 gigahertz processor 8 GB of ram will start having issues when running over 200,000 polygons. So i need to try to make money with my models as long as possible, means as long it is not uploaded to anywhere else. Also, trying to find an item that I already saw through the search is near impossible. Even when Ts would sell more models it does not mean they serve you well, because it is not. It doesn't matter if the printing industry is growing fast. They may not end up following your ideas, but they will certainly take them into account. Machines have already replaced people making their jobs irrelevant in many fields already more and more customer service jobs have become automated, many store sales positions now are not needed because so much is being done online, the tolls on the highways now only use fast track or you get a letter in the mail telling you to pay it because there is no one in the booth anymore so you can't pay it on the road. You just have to check the Sellers forum at Turbosquid to see plenty of complaints about all sorts of abusive policies. Im convinced now that when I would reactivate my Ts account I will just have a bit less sales here and get some sales over there, could be wrong but I don't care, 60% cut is ridicules and on top of that price guarantee is just total madness. Some people mistaken de renders for real items already, can imagine how that would be on Ebay or amazon. They had shoddy products but they created the illusion of having something amazing and that was better than a PC. I experienced this on other topics like the challenges, where CGT team took some ideas into consideration and applied some of them. Been over 17 years with TS. Respect and good luck to everyone who is here! You don't even seem to get reputation points for purchasing items, assuming I've read the page correctly, and if that is the case it's just dumb. You want to put it in your store but it obviously needs some work to make it marketable. On the other side, CGtrader empowers the real content creators, giving them all kind of freedom regarding their products and image, and encouraging communication between customers and content creators. Dear adentonclark,
My response was, not going to do that, its my work I decide the price. royalty scale you work up on is all very cool the fact you can print here sell files here and stream files all on one listing CG TRADER FOR THE WIN!!! I am huge fan of the CGT team because they really try hard to make us happy. The claim Turbosquid made was that it infringed on Games Workshop IPs. Some may post their old stuff they just don't want to ask money for, consequentially it is also not representative of the work they currently do. - Do you think that a company like Turbosquid, managed by/for corporate funding with clear monopolistic intentions is more likely to improve your situation as a content creator in the future? Thanks iterateCGI, from the start we thought it will be best to expose the issues publicly, so other cg 3D sellers can see for themselves what they are exposed to when dealing with Turbosquid. I think that subsequently only large studios and squidguild members will remain there"