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Welcome to the first TurboSquid newsletter of 2008. This edition features a new SquidFact and a Product Gallery with a food theme. Unlike ubiquitous holiday treats, the assets in the Product Gallery won't make you gain a single pound! Additionally, check out the impressive collection of this edition's featured artist, InfinityStudio. Thanks for your continued support of TurboSquid.
- The TurboSquid Team

Talent-on-Demand is an exciting new service from TurboSquid for all your custom modeling, model modification and staff augmentation needs. Whether you can't find exactly what you need from our web site, are on a tight budget or need a project done quickly, TurboSquid Talent-on-Demand can help. Our Producers are standing by with a team of artists ready to work for you. TurboSquid also encourages artists to sign up to be available for project production. For a complete list of services, request and registration forms, visit our Talent-on-Demand page.

nPower Software has teamed up with TurboSquid to bring their Power Tools series into the Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in (ACAP) program in February. These tools, including Power NURBS, Solids, Translators and more, are unique solutions for modelers designed to facilitate creativity, simplify design processes, improve ease of use, and reduce design time. In addition to existing tools nPower is also featuring plug-ins to cleanly import projects into Max from Catia, SolidWorks, UGS and ProE. The ACAP branding guarantees quality, compatibility and support for each of these plug-ins. Check out the current nPower software.

TurboSquid's Tentacles is a FREE plug-in giving you personal and team file sharing, as well as direct access to TurboSquid's marketplace, all right in your 3D application. Tentacles also gives you the ability to browse, compare, purchase, import and archive 3D models and textures. It is available for 3ds Max, Maya, XSI and C4D. Click here to read what TurboSquid users are saying about Tentacles.

Quick SquidFact:

Did you know that the average model purchased on TurboSquid saves almost 27 hours of design time and costs USD$102? That's less than $3.75 per hour. TurboSquid can save you time and money!

Featured Software

from Sitni Sati

DreamScape 2.5 provides users with cutting edge tools for creating realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, outdoor lighting and more. In contrast to other terrain creation tools for 3ds Max, DreamScape`s Terra module uses new rendering technologies that occupy much less of your computer memory, making it possible to render exceptionally large, detailed terrains even on a modest host system. Buy for only US$645.00. Read More

Geo UV from Geometric Informatics

Geo UV automates the mapping process while minimizing distortion. In addition, this software optimizes the amount of memory for each object, resulting in more efficient memory use and more realistic detail. Buy for only US$249.00. More

Power Booleans 3 from nPower Software

Power Booleans 3 offers a new Power Cutter tool, excellent for exploding, breaking apart, assembling, sectioning, slicing or fitting together objects like a 3D puzzle without removing any of the component pieces. Buy for only US$395.00. More

Aurora Water for Windows from Digital Element

Aurora Water is a unique After Effects plug-in which lets you create circular waves, add reflections, refraction, volumetric light rays and submerged objects. Buy for only US$169.00. More

Featured Artist

InfinityStudio, a "Top Rated", "Top Seller" and "Seasoned Vendor", has over 300 impressive assets. InfinityStudio's collection largely consists of high-resolution, detailed texture maps and materials and also features many beautiful, photorealistic furniture models that are ideal for an interior scene. Check out the entire collection from InfinityStudio.