3DVIA Blog » Free 3D Models http://www.3dvia.com/blog Spread your 3D Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en 3D Espresso Anyone? Come Make a Call at the 3DVIA SIGGRAPH Booth http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/08/08/3d-espresso-anyone-come-make-a-call-at-the-3dvia-siggraph-booth/ http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/08/08/3d-espresso-anyone-come-make-a-call-at-the-3dvia-siggraph-booth/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:49:34 +0000 David http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/08/08/3d-espresso-anyone-come-make-a-call-at-the-3dvia-siggraph-booth/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "3D Espresso Anyone? Come Make a Call at the 3DVIA SIGGRAPH Booth", url: "http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/08/08/3d-espresso-anyone-come-make-a-call-at-the-3dvia-siggraph-booth/" });]]> If you are going to SIGGRAPH 2008 next week, stop by for a little 3D virtual espresso. We might even enjoy a few virtual lattes together as well. The 3DVIA booth is #1217.

Like the 3D phone models in the videos? You can play with a few of them in the warehouse right now! Or you can play around with the 3D model of phone featured in the video below (click the play button).

Have you made your plans for the 3DVIA Booth Challenge? Stop by the 3DVIA booth and show off your dance moves.

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]]> http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/08/08/3d-espresso-anyone-come-make-a-call-at-the-3dvia-siggraph-booth/feed/ 20,000 Users and Counting! http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/29/20000-users-and-counting/ http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/29/20000-users-and-counting/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 11:16:09 +0000 David http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/29/20000-users-and-counting/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "20,000 Users and Counting!", url: "http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/29/20000-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!

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

Have you read Juan’s 3D Tutorials yet or seen our latest series by Don covering user m2morgan64 efforts to create a game starting with our own free 3D modeling application 3DVIA Shape?

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]]> http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/29/20000-users-and-counting/feed/ 3DVIA Featured on TIME.com! http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/14/3dvia-featured-on-timecom/ http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/14/3dvia-featured-on-timecom/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 20:10:51 +0000 David http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/14/3dvia-featured-on-timecom/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "3DVIA Featured on TIME.com!", url: "http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/14/3dvia-featured-on-timecom/" });]]> TIME2

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 amount to an entirely new form of communication. But now a new site called 3DVIA.com is taking the social-networking concept to another dimension — both literally and, well, virtually.” [ Read the Full Article ]

If you are not familiar with TIME.com, it is the online version of Time Magazine which has over 3,250,000 subscribers and is read by nearly 10 million people each week.

Do you have Digg account?
Please Digg the TIME article above.

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]]> http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/05/14/3dvia-featured-on-timecom/feed/ VIDEO - 3DVIA 3D Models and Photoshop CS3 Extended http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/28/video-3dvia-3d-models-and-photoshop-cs3-extended/ http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/28/video-3dvia-3d-models-and-photoshop-cs3-extended/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:17:15 +0000 David http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/28/video-3dvia-3d-models-and-photoshop-cs3-extended/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VIDEO - 3DVIA 3D Models and Photoshop CS3 Extended", url: "http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/28/video-3dvia-3d-models-and-photoshop-cs3-extended/" });]]> Ben Harper, web design guru and owner of Templamatic, posted a great video screencast on how to import the free 3D model content found on 3DVIA.com into Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.    Since it references 3DVIA, I thought I would pass it along and see what you think.

 

In short, Photoshop Extended allows graphic designers to incorporate 3D content directly into their 2D designs.  This gives you the ability to optimize the position and lighting of an element in your design on the fly.  Photoshop accepts .3ds, .obj and .dae files among other formats readily available for free right here on 3DVIA.com. 

If you do not have Photoshop, why not try a similar functionality in our own free 3Dcollage?  All you need is a Facebook account and the 3Dcollage app.  You can read all about it here.

 

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]]> http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/28/video-3dvia-3d-models-and-photoshop-cs3-extended/feed/ 10,000 Registered Users! Keep it Going! http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/09/10000-registered-users-keep-it-going/ http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/09/10000-registered-users-keep-it-going/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:57:51 +0000 David http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/09/10000-registered-users-keep-it-going/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "10,000 Registered Users! Keep it Going!", url: "http://www.3dvia.com/blog/2008/04/09/10000-registered-users-keep-it-going/" });]]> To some sites, 10,000 users may not seem like a big milestone. However, considering that we we’re at just over 6,000 users only a few weeks ago, we are pretty happy with the achievement.  Welcome to all of our new 3D content enthusiasts!

We also passed 2,000 public 3D models at the same time (there are an additional 4,000+ private models being hosted on 3DVIA).  Check out new user smike, who has an amazing collection of spaceship 3D models, and the Earth Alliance “Ivanovas” SA-23E 3D model that he uploaded recently. 

Click the play button to examine the model up close.

You can find out more from smike on his website…Smikes World!

Let’s keep it going! Search for free 3D models now.

 

 

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