Never Ending Story

We have decided to stop scrutinizing the works of 3D Artists on this blog. This blog has caused much uproar, and recieved lot of email requests - some to continue, some to stop. We don't have anything personal with Turbosquid or any 3D Marketplace, or with any of the artists on those sites. We are an independent group of artists, and we started this blog based on the analysis, survey, experiences of large group of 3D artists selling 3D models. Out of all the points we chose to include in this blog, one thing stood out - the way the 3D artist is respected by 3D Marketplace and fellow artists. We gathered lot of info on various sites and started compiling. TurboSquid forums influenced much of the previous posts.

All those posted here are just an example, if we continue further it will be page after page and will be a never ending story. Turbosquid is one of the best sites for selling and buying 3D assets, no doubt about that. We just wanted to point out what some of the top sellers do, and to secure thier sales what they do to new artists or who is at the starting level of SquidGuild. Most of these top sellers we talk about try to create a suspicion on artists and his models if  its competing with their products. Most of the accusations and blatant statements they make seem to be untrue most of the times, and Turbosquid trying to protect and support such artists is the most appalling of all.

We hope things will change for good.

Will this artist get Checkmate Certification?

Turbosquid seems to be acting in desperation, its making its next move by bringing in Checkmate Certification which is good way to eliminate undercutters, but will these artists and these models get checkmate certification.

Artist:

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/LMLP640

this artist is at emerald level, so that means he has earned $3000+ of which TS would have earned around 50%.

most of  his models were from Dosch Transport 2010 collection + Evermotion Arch models vol 55

http://www.doschdesign.com/products/3d/Transport_2010.html

http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/show_product/archmodels-vol-55/27/0/0/

Trusted Rater who cant be Trusted anymore

Trusted Rater on Turbosquid is an absolute nonsense, some of the top selling artists form a group and exchange ratings among themselves. Most ridiculous part is these raters give 1star rating for a competing product by other artists (Mostly for new artists), the same product rated with 5 stars by the buyers of that model.  They try to eliminate them from competition by giving them low rating, accusing them as undercutters, above all accusing thier works to be stolen whenever the model is low priced.

These group call themselves as master artists, but what they do is all low and mean. They are the group who want $200 even for a lowpoly car, which you can get for at the average of $15 from other artists and 3d stores.

River that is polluted

Hi all,

Little intresting find again, Its possible for 3d artist to copy ideas from other, any  3d artist can model an elephant, a horse and models by different artists can look similar. But one major aspect stands different, almost by 99%. Is there a possibility that wireframes by two different artists look the same, not at all unless its a standard primitive objects provided in the 3d application.

Here we go.

This artist named 3DRivers have published many horse models which has the same wireframe as DAZ Millenium Horse.

He has got lots of horse published. all of them are the same mesh with different textures.

here are the few links where you can see his wireframe, which shows that the model source is DAZ

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/black-horse-3d-max/460406

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-grey-horse/499883

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/chestnut-horse-3d-model/499879

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3ds-bay-horse/499876
these are wireframes published by 3drivers.

wireframe by 3drivers from

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/chestnut-horse-3d-model/499879

wireframe by 3d rivers from

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3ds-bay-horse/499876

There is no chance that wireframes match exactly for two different artists. Most interesting thing is that he has worked out the wireframes near the stomach area which looks different, but watch the wireframes closely on head, it is the same. He has worked out the flow of segments in the stomach area without losing UVW mapping, which can be done easily.

Wireframe of Head by 3drivers and DAZ
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wireframe comparison -here you can see the belly area worked out by 3drivers.

click on the image for larger view

alll his horse has the same mesh with different textures. what is your conclusion?