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3DVIA Featured Artist – Abdullah Shaikh (abu_roadking & trigram_QWQ)

Story telling is one of the oldest known methods of communication between humans. Legends, lessons and just talking with each other is filled with stories that help us to understand our world. Whether the story is oral, written, drawn in 2D, viewed as a series of moving images, or shown as a 3D model  – [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Tommy Smith (tomy)

3DVIA.com welcomes 3D modelers of all levels of experience. Some users are an inspiration to us because of their long experience and incredible models.
Others are an inspiration because they are continually working on improving their skills and welcome comments and help from other modelers while sharing their own tips and tricks.
We are also inspired by [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Michael White (toymaker)

Michael White is better known to 3DVIA visitors as toymaker! Michael seems limitless in his choice of model subjects. We just never know what he’ll do next. His models have been featured in twelve 3DVIA Top 10 posts from the very beginning, including – 001, – 004, – 016, – 017, – 018, – 019, – [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Shannon Sands (sandman14)

Shannon Sands (sandman14) has been rocking 3DVIA’s world with his multitude of incredible guitar models. His models have been featured in Top 10 – 014, – 015 (two models), – 017, – 018, – 020, – 023, – 026, and – 028, and as Honorable Mentions in Top 10 – 022, – 023, and – 024.
It’s [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Alfred Schallert (alfredix)

With 218 models (at last count) here on 3DVIA.com, alfredix has become a valued part of our modeling community! His models are always impeccably detailed and usually just the right size to use in 3DVIA Shape, so we can all make our own scenes too. He is always ready with a compliment or a good [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Corey Papadopoli

Corey Papadopoli provides us with some great images, project descriptions and comments that all add up to a clear window into how 3D computer modeling is now an integral part of architecture. 
Corey has worked in Boston, New York City, Puerto Rico, Seal Harbor, Maine, and Florence, Italy prior to joining Elliott Elliott Norelius in Blue Hill, [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Mark Biasotti

Mark Biasotti is quite well known within the SolidWorks community for his mastery of the complex surfaces often needed to design and manufacture many consumer items. As an Industrial Designer, he was always working to make the products fit our needs and our physical capabilities. When we pick up a product and it just feels [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Michael Petersen

Michael Petersen is better known to 3DVIA visitors as smike. He is a regular in the weekly 3DVIA Top 10 list and tops the list of users with 234 models in his 3DVIA collection. Smike started both the 3D People Character Figures and Ships – Boats – Vessels groups and, just recently, also started the Squirrels group to add another [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Matthieu Negrier

Matthieu Negrier is quite a well-rounded 24 year old 2D/3D artist living near Paris in France. For work, he is part of the 3DVIA Web Application Team and in charge of developing Virtools applications. He also works on reconstructing 3D models from photography. For himself; he keeps busy doing 3D modeling, game creation, writing plays and novels, developing web [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Benoit Caselli

Fasten your seat belts! Benoit Caselli is one incredible modeler!

I’ll let him introduce himself:   I live in Gentilly, in the southern Paris suburbs. I have been in an apprenticeship contract for 3 years at Dassault Systemes (DS), where I had the pleasure to work on the CATIA industrialization team and in pre-sales design. I am now [...]