I have been studying their website from a buyers perspective thoroughly and I have noticed that; 1. And some may post a part of a set, and ad a link to the complete set, others may just do it to spread their work and name, etc. Chat with Support 24/7 Maybe you think my words are disproportionate or naive but mark them now. You have insufficient credit to complete your purchase. Using TurboSquid 3D Models in Virtual Worlds. User experience and User interface is much better to manage your store, and higher royalty. I had hoped that CGTrader would want to be the kings but i have to be honest if you licence a thing only here you have to own it forever, as you cannot sell that licence. Login to PayPal to add your account as a payment method. We'll let you know about that soon - all CGT sellers will receive via email, so stay tuned! what you say doesn't make any sense because CGTrader has a 100 percent guarantee return policy on all models as far as I know. How about the Royalty Rate??? Check out our picks of the best sites to download free 3D models for 3D printing, games & animation, graphic design, architecture, and more. I want to say the following. @limonadinis That takes longer time. Regarding the support case, perhaps you could share the exact details on the case by a message or email to me (dalia@cgtrader.com) - we would like to look more into it and ensure that no cases like that are unsolved. Next we would have the sales/customers feedback factor coming in to sort out the stores ranking. Be very wary when the artist is from India or other similar countries. I am new starter here. 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. Then they would only find the relevant models and get to purchasing them right away. So what I did was simply adding the 60% cut to the product on Ts. If CGtrader's advertisement budget is a problem, a Crowdfunding round may help. Some may look great for close ups but in a large environment scene or house setting when you have a lot of models to let's say show off the interior design of a model home you need to be very careful on poly count. rigged People SixPack 003 - Photogrammetry Population Character Rig, max blend c4d xsi ma lwo 3ds dae dxf fbx obj X, City People x500 Static Poses Lowpoly ArchViz, 20x LOW POLY CASUAL ELEGANT SITTING WOMAN MAN PEOPLE CROWD, Naked Fitness Blonde Woman with Tied Hair, max c4d unitypackage upk max ma c4d max ma fbx max. As someone suggested most serious buyers will end up buying 100 bucks worth of models so putting down 1 Dollar isn't going to cause any trouble. We will only contact you if there's a problem with an order. Based on those traffic stats CGtrader would clearly benefit from more advertisement out there. I was thinking of ok if the ts is shit why not using other marketplace with the cgt specially if both accept selling in other marketplace, You have zero 3D models uploaded here. You need to find what you want based on category and budget and purchase it quickly so you can use the product or send it to who will. I see no point in closing when you might as well keep it open and get a couple sales. 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. You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas, Thank you for shopping at TurboSquid. A little more than a year passed since our public disagreement with Turbosquid policies and behavior that ended our relationship as content creator and reseller. "that is where the big money can be", being able to part with an invention has value. - CGTrader pays a LOT more than TS; TS *keeps* 60% unless you sell exclusively on their site and join their "Squid Guild". 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. So if I am looking after regular CG models, afters a few minutes search, my logical choice is not to search on CGTrader but rather on "old-fashioned" sites. Login to PayPal to add your account as a payment method. Yes. They recently changed their search engine over there and when you search for Free models it comes up with a few free ones and many more paid ones so from that perspective Turbosquid makes your life even harder lol. It's all fine and CGT rocks the socks off the competition. And saying only nice words won't help them much. Every freelancer is corporation of it's own. Add a Payment Method, Add a Payment Yes you are right Zet! Guys really have the potential to screw greedy monopoly and earn some decent position on the market. So let's hope that at some point, the designers of the site will establish some filters to guarantee a minimal quality and, why not, a "good practice charter" for the sellers, or that they will explain some sellers that their attitude is not good in the long term for the site credibility. It makes you blind and clueless to how a customer is actually using your product and how well it integrates in his business and future activities. Professional Rigged 3D Female Models Toggle Navigation; 3D Models New & Unrated Rigged Price. If I run the same test on Turbosquid or The3DStudio, I get almost exclusively original characters. 5. Thanks for dropping by and great news about an eventual homepage re-design. But they can still contact the artist for fixing issues directly here on CGTrader. CGtrader staff admits to some degree to this problem (see the comment of Dalia Lasaite) and promises to redesign the homepage. 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. So the staff there tries to work But I think that CheckMate was especially created to bring artists to exclusivity, rather than promote quality. Why is CGTrader better? Full collections of objects for 12 bucks is NOT okay. We finally have some real genuine completion for the best sales platform. From moment I have enough things to sell here, I would come clean with myself and close my TS account with great pleasure. https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/cathedral-paris-notre-dame-3d-obj/933856?referral=pit_zavra - Limiting, perhaps, the number of objects that can be uploaded in a row, to avoid having the front page confiscated by a single seller when ticking the "newest" filter. A rig is like a skeleton of a 3D model, which lets you move and pose it with little effort. But now, I'm exploring a new platform which is Sketchfab. It still remains a puzzle to me, were those few now actually using their CGt account because there was no other way or did I just lose those and just gained some new clients from somewhere ells? I hope to find same courage someday ;-) You just have to check the Sellers forum at Turbosquid to see plenty of complaints about all sorts of abusive policies. So it is, but it's a matter of time and CGTrader will be able to master these positions. Yes, CG Trader is the best now some bugs should be solved. - Fixing some guidelines to upload quality models (at least assuring that obj models, for instance, if textured, should have a proper .mtl file, limiting the models to quads/tris, imposing materials and textures to have understandable names, etc. Yes, buyers has free will to express their opinion about model, but in case of negative feedback such opinion should be reasonable and motivated. just 2 years ago still existed. Well, it was more than one year ago that I last intervened on this thread. Hmm, i went to your profile and i see no negative feedback. CGTrader vs Turbosquid | CGTrader Buyer can contact seller directly, which can save him/her lot's of time and frustrations. CGt basically needs to be good at one thing, "facilitating a sales platform". https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/industrial/other/shipping-container--4. For myself, long live CGTrader and may they keep their principles as they grow. [http://www.google.com google5 ] Reputation for promptly fixing problems? I'm also active for some time on other marketplaces as well (e.g. Ebay it's ALL about direct seller/customer relationship. I ended up terminating my account, seeing as I couldn't operate the store under such conditions - not only did I risk having the work I'd put in uploading items undone at any moment, I also had no idea what pitfalls I had to avoid to not have items taken down. https://vimeo.com/739678 I still get more sales on TS, despite having adjusted all prices to compensate their extortions. Having too many high poly models in 1 scene can considerably slow down rendering times, work flow and even crash your computer making the entire scene unusable. I'm a bit afraid there's always going to be issues that leaves this community divided, leaving CGpeople with a platform not able to live up to its full potential and leaving 3D print people with a platform not living up to its full potential either. Build your own Brand with your own criteria and goals. An important factor for many buyers is the possibility of cash transactions in the system WebMoney. I believe this would solve the 'bad content mixed with the quality models' problem. While there is some sellers that naively think they can rely on Turbosquid's good will to improve their situation in the future, the rest of us should be start working together towards a collective benefit. In my experience often times a client will ask for certain models but then one must take into consideration what computer specs they have because you don't want your client to get frustrated with the models you buy. http://rebloggy.com/post/art-copyright-turbosquid-infringement-kouotsu-ip-theft-kouotsu/34732573054 These changes are part of the new TurboSquid Best Price Guarantee (https://resources.squid.io/?p=14893) in which we are assuring TurboSquid customers that they can always find the lowest prices on our site. TurboSquid be avoided guys! Cheap and free models are killing cgtrader. Absurd as it may sound, a lot of customers doesn't even make a simple "XXXX 3D model" search and go to Turbosquid just because that's a name they heard before. In fact my sells on TS are actually going down while they go up on CGt. TS is simply in decline getting worse and worse. Sketchfab.com-------------------------------. Basically just like Turbosquid has done they have become the one stop shop for everything. This is not a "fight" between NoneCG and Turbosquid, but a struggle between different ways of doing business: the classic closed market or a more open one based on a Fair Business model and full comunication between the producer, the marketer and the customer. Payout fees are just fractions of percent, not worth to consider. Care to share your time machine? Every vendor who is exclusive is losing money and customers. They will be very enlightening and useful to you especially if you have never built 3D models and don't know what to expect. (These stats can be confirmed as true by CGtrader staff, we have no problem with that). Thingiverse remains the king for licensing, as you can transfer the licence within the site. My initial stance on this was, ok fine then my Ts account can stay up for those few that seemingly do not know anything ells outside of Ts. [quote]1. To bad this place is ridiculously expensive, you only get 33% of your sales. Gumroad. I am getting more sales on Cgtrader than TS though :P and CGtrader is easier to use. For example, I ran into this this morning. They call that "3D Industry" on the download report .. it's rare but it's happend (one time for me) Closed my Ts account because it was completely useless and obsolete. 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. The site owners could also act on other various levels : Without checkmate Turbosquid would have gone out of business. First of all make great and spectacular models for it and promote it on forums, facebook, linkedin groups and forums. This industry really needs a giant hub were al CGpeople (weather young and inexperienced ore diehard veterans) can communicate, learn, trade, fundraise and collaborate. More specifically, the 3D Model may not be exported or sold. They simply do not get the idea that Turbosquid is just another reseller for the real product developers, and Turbosquid management and "rules" promote exactly that. Turbosquid just has it backwards. Animated and Rigged 3D Finger Models | TurboSquid Basically, they continue to sell their previous models or are selling non-liquid assets. For example, I ran into this this morning. I'm not a modeler, I come here to buy models and this site is surprisingly obtuse when it comes to layout. This market is changing rapidly and Ts is not adapting to the evolution of connectedness within the global CG community. Products are subject to the TurboSquid, Inc. This is hight quality female model with animation friendly topology. I started uploading some of my items to cg trader to see if it generated any income but as I have 70+ items and 0 sales I have decided to stop. Speaking of it, noting even stops me here from adding in the description of the model something like this,"If you are a maya exeprt and can successful convert this project, then I will completely refund you in exchange for that converted maya file". A possible solution for potential buyers looking to sample the work of sellers, would be for sellers to have their free sample models at a low minimal price instead of free. It is the best RR in the world ! This would allow genuine potential buyers to check the quality of models. I tested it with golden palace, clothing and various hair, other textures, they all worked fine August 22, 2022 at 6:03 am #1859211 Sabrina Participant Rank: @Goblyn Glad you enjoy it! And i cannot take care for piracy or stolen models because the 3d stuff will go in piracy anyways, doensnt matter the platform it comes from. CGTrader / TurboSquid Female Advanced Model - Free Daz 3D Models in the name of freedom expression of the buyer (???). 3D stock would have main subs like architectural, medical, automotive, etc). Hello. Gumroad is an awesome virtual marketplace where artists can create their own store and sell any type of digital asset, from textures to tutorial series. For example, make affiliation partnerships between people/storeowners possible. Been over 17 years with TS. I don't know whether it would be possible to implement, but it would stop those who just wanted to download as many free models as possible. Saied this couple of times in the past, leverage the difference in royalty to provide a slightly better offer over here, otherwise customers hoe have a Ts account will see no need to make one here to buy same model for same price. Bangalore Escort You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas, Thank you for shopping at TurboSquid. We are currently working to redesign the homepage to show off both CG and 3D print ready models. It seems to me that over time a CGTrader will be able to overtake TurboSquid in many positions, if TS does not change its policy. female rigged 3d model - TurboSquid The age of 3D models is over and people have moved on to 3D printing. I removed all products from TS. The designers make a deal with each other and negotiate a percentage on the sales. Anybody else suffered the same blows to their sales in the same months as the web updates? my main income its still TS. For me CGTrader is the best and CGTrader has the best structure of a 3d site !!! This is my principle decision . Doing the same at Turbosquid feels as dreadful as applying for a driver's license. But at the same time they require all rights to the model, and the model is removed from sale at all sites. Here is a quick test that can help understand why there aren't so many buyers. We will only contact you if there's a problem with an order. Maybe it is unnecessary complex? In place already. Personally, I will never sign up to exclusive contracts, others should always get chances to maybe offer better job if they can. The stores/collections idea sounds good but maybe a simpler voting system for any product/seller will give an easy ranking system to take in count for search results among other factors. Now if this individual was for real I would have loved to contact him and ask If he would like to give me that converted file in exchange for every dollar he paid for the model. I read here on the forum can't remember if it was Iterate CGI or someone else said that CGTrader will soon sell on Amazon and I can't wait for it to happen!! - Are you interested in just some quick cash grabs and extras here and there while you can, or would you like to be able to contribute to a fair market where you can make a living out of your passion? That is why I like to use Apple as the example of preference. Of course if you have a PC with quad processors over 16 GB of ram things will be different but be warned students and low end users. Please don't get impression that i'm trying to bash CGT, i don't i favor CGT over TS any day, but i want that they up their game in this concurent buisness. Bala - Female Rigged Character 3D model 3D - TurboSquid 2034950 Dear adentonclark, Yes indeed! 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. How about all products here have no restriction Google search.etc. I will leave the items here to see if cg trader does manage to change things around over the next 12 months and if not will simply sell them on turbosquid. Here at CGtrader you can do all of that and much much more which is awesome!! Renderosity. When someone uploads a scanned model for 3D printing and tags it as "low poly", the model will appear even where it shouldn't. Marius Kalytis (founder of this place) was a 3D artist himself and took notice of the questionable policy's the established market had adopted (leaving room to do it differently). So that is why sites like Amazon are making a fortune. Also could you elaborate on the search and going backwards issue? What I saw after that was a 50 to 50 ration decrease on Ts and increase on my CGt account. To be honest, when I first found this site a few days ago I was really excited. 3D Modeling Jobs | CGTrader Turbosquid is the exact opposite. No frankly, it's a bloody mystery. TS can go to Hell, and never return again. I can't imagine that competing sellers would go for such things as you described, but who knows, there are plenty nuts all around :]. @captainmarlowe Thanks a lot for a lot of valid points regarding search and categorization! I'd rather look into ways to create my own site, cause it's a bit tedious to sift through neverending site rules from neverending projects. . CGT needs to get on Amazon a.s.a.p or partner with all the top leading commercial comps in order to make 3D more interesting to more buyers. My current store on CGTrader includes numerous items that were deemed to be infringing upon GW IP (link below). A: TurboS*swearword-here* will start to DOWNTICK PRICES to match them to "other selling sites" on customer complaint, so I will remove every model they demand for down-adjustment, and I'm sure I won't be alone in this. If CGT would manage to draw more buyers from TS then even more sellers would migrate here. CGTrader has a good plateform for selling already licensed things files but not selling the licence,your trapped into owning the licence. 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. video services, 3D viewers, social media , crowd funding platforms, etc.) Female 3D models Rigged 3D models are your best choice when you need a character or object to perform unique movements. - CGTrader pays immediately; TS waits until the end of the month. Ps. The staff on CG Trader seem to be very active and listen to ideas from the community, so I will try to find time and post some ideas on how the problem could be solved. To be honest, when I first found this site a few days ago I was really excited. Well, unless I can verify the quality of the model I'm not going to pay for most things. However, probably allot of us silently disagree on how we are treated as artist on places like Ts. Cgtrader user interface is much more user friendly. 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. Most small or midsized companies I worked with, did their best to cap their scene polygons at no more 500,000 all models included. Similar thing happened to me,that's why i'm at CGtrader full time now. We at NoneCg think that both CGtrader and Sellers will benefit from the exact opposite policy. Plus giving much higher royalties, instantly paid, much better support, publishing system, etc. I know I personally would be Heh.. that's another topic but my top selling model is nude. If you think life is hard as a buyer you should try modeling for a living Making any money is a truly miserable experience. They bring answers to your problems or requests quite fast and in a very convivial way. google3 Fantasy is a bit better, but sic-fi gets me 10 copyright infringements on the first page alone (star wars characters, mainly). It doesn't matter if the printing industry is growing fast. On TS depends on the country you come for, you get around 30% of your earnings (this is how much you get on your account, I know it is stated 60% but they take additional 30% for US tax), here I am not shore how much you get as I just joined and did not made any sales. While sellers will be disadvantaged in many interests. What this shows is their weakness. 3D 3D Photorealistic Female Rigged - TurboSquid 1789052 A battle is going on right now, and some top sellers are going full #SquidClan with a custom deal from the Wisdoms: a 5-6 digit $ amount in instant cash now as an advance of a 2 year exclusivity deal, plus a boost of their royalties at the expense of all the other "non-top" sellers at Turbosquid that won't be getting any offer from Matt Wisdom. Don't know how many even bother to ask, and on Ts no one can ask anything. Plus, as I saw in another post, turbosquid does not let you post any links. A few weeks later, my first 3d model was sold on TS, while I had to wait 4 or 5 months to get my first sales on CGT, And the sad thing is that those sales concerned only low-priced models. Realistic Female 3D Model. Imagine how much easier it would be for a games company to do a search by typing in (sword, 15 dollars and then 500 polygons. (2034950) 3D Realistic Female - 3D Model by kingnewnew - RenderHub [/quote] Searching for specific terms applying to a specific model, the results on Google are nearly on first page. And it is convenient for the buyer and profitable for the seller. So what's needed? I think the TS percentage is pretty much an outrage considering the low price of the products being sold. So even if TS takes 60%, I still make better profit there because here I get 94% of nothing. The more people ho place your item in their stores the higher your ranking for that product gets "in the pool that is". Comment goo's like this, quote "Awesome model, converted this guy over into maya and he looks great" end quote. The people at the top of the pyramid scheme bully all the new modelers who show any sales success because they barely scrape by as it is so it is really bad work environment to work for Turbosquid is not worth your time. But they must realise that attracting more buyers only through more aggresive marketing is not enough. I did not know about that. CGt embraces all modern communication technologies which is critical to establish such a place. 3. (just playing with ideas here) Fact is, the best is where is can make the most sales. Every freelancer is corporation of it's own. You can just buy and return it if it is not to your satisfaction. But we forgot about the buyers. How Can we get 94% of Royalty?? 4. (e.g. Thanks once again! Right now, low quality models flooding this site are attracting the low budget people - that's certainly why high quality objects with pricings in accordance don't sell that much. Matt Wisdom describes Turbosquid as "a sort of Ebay" when in fact Turbosquid works exactly the same as classic "supermarket providers" where the reseller profits the most from the producers by keeping them totally apart from the customers. Dear adentonclark, Animated Camel 3D Model 13. Maybe they have a much deeper interaction with the clients? If the buyer decided to buy after inspecting a sample, the seller would deduct the sample price from another 3d model.