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20,000 Users and Counting!

It seems like just last month we were talking about 10,000 registered users on 3DVIA. Wait a minute…that was last month!  We just passed 20,000 registered users on 3DVIA.com yesterday and we are still growing!

We are also currently up over 2,400 free 3D models in the public warehouse and thousands more stored in private [...]

1 – INTRO – The making of “Captain Morgan and his Starship Pirates”

3DVIA member m2morgan64has been very busy making excellent models using 3DVIA Shape. This is unusual all by itself, but it’s especially unusual because his real goal is to create his own game – “Starship Pirates”! Check out his new “Starship Pirates” group.

Without trying, he has exemplified what 3DVIA is all about – trying to help [...]

Spot the Fake! Walkthrough

I recently posted a 3D Model on 3DVIA that asked you to spot the fake crate from the “real” crate.  I am going to go through the process of how I made it in this blog.
Modeling the full detail Crate
This was fun to make! A nice simple crate that everyone can make at home.  I [...]

Introducing the 3DVIA Challenge – Be the Top Modeler!

Do you think you have 3D modeling skills? 3DVIA is proud to announce its first 3DVIA Challenge – a special bi-monthly contest to prove which of our users has the best 3D modeling skills.
Every other week (or so), we’ll announce a new 3DVIA challenge asking you to submit your best work based upon a set [...]

Iron Man

I have to say that I was a little cautious about Robert Downey Jr. playing Tony Stark but he was excellent in the film and the Iron Man model was amazing.  In this blog we’ll talk a little bit about the suit and what it took to make it real.
The Movie

The movie was fantastic!  It takes [...]

3DVIA Featured on TIME.com!

Although I am probably biased, there is a great article on TIME.com today featuring a certain 3D content site that you may have visited recently. Please check out the Thomas Grose 3D Comes to Web 2.0 article that is all about your very own 3DVIA.com.
“The hosted services and communities of Web 2.0 already [...]

3D or not 3D, The world of UV editing.

That is the question isn’t it?  After you spend all this time making this wonderful 3D Model, you have to work in 2D space to create the UV’s.  Barbarism! you say?  But its true.  In today’s blog we’ll go into what UV’s are and why they are so important.
UV’s

UV’s are 2D representations of vertices on [...]

Poly Flow, The Way of the Modeler.

After my first 2 blogs (Not All 3D Content is Created Equal, Modeling for games, Why does it look so good?) covering the need for and the how to create great looking low polygon models, I thought we could get into some of the techniques used to create models effectively.  Lets look at the Letter D, as its [...]

Modeling for games, Why does it look so good?

In my previous blog post we talked about how games need to render everything in the scene at 30 frames per second. To accomplish that you have to make models with as few polygons as possible but make them look just like they were immensely high poly. How is that possible?
Baking Textures

One way to do [...]