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Hi, I ordered a pendant and it was made excellently and quickly. CGTrader offers exceptional service that I've never found anywhere else.

Easy to work with. It was the first time I bought a model and it looks fine and easy to work with. I liked the texture. I printed 1:64 scale so I cannot confirm the details as it is too small but it looks like the character portrayed by the model.

I bought a couple of different models to print. They worked well, look good, and were a great price!

3D artists should avoid CGTrader like a plague because their ultimate goal presently is to use your 3d models for generative ai purposes against your wish, while at the same time slashing your royalty rate by 7-10%. Be wary of anyone giving CGTrader positive reviews after June 1 2025, for those are either paid shills, low information artists who have no idea what is going on in the marketplace or 3D artists with humiliation kink. Worst part is their laughable attempts to gaslight 3d artists with the very obvious lie that CGTrader’s clearly detrimental policies are totally for the "benefit" of the artists. I never thought there would be a 3D marketplace worse that Turbosquid but here we are. CGTrader started as a decent 3d marketplace where 3d artists can sell their models with a higher royalty payout than most marketplaces. With a baseline 70% royalty rate (before deductions like transaction fee) artists can climb up the ladder to 80% royalty rate, through a performance based rating system. For years it looked promising and many 3d artists worked very hard to climb the ranks. Many years later after 3d artists sent the 3d marketplace to the top of the line with sheer dedication and hard work, CGTrader started to show their true colours and those colours are the most unsavory. They implemented a rather needlessly complex, cumbersome and nonsensical payout system that is highly unpredictable and painfully random, depending on when you make a sale. It went downhill from there with one horrible anti-3d artist policy after another implemented in quick succession. The first sign of their nefarious intent on brazen intellectual property theft reared its ugly head when they implemented a default ai opt-in on all models with optional opt-out after the fact. Many 3d artists told them to kick rocks and opted out of that garbage. Then they came with the nifty idea of forced discounts on models with e-mail opt-out sent directly to CGTrader, otherwise they will ignore the sales and promotions opt-out option already selected by the artists in the user settings, thereby including all your models in their forever race to the bottom discounts and sales promotions, against your wish. Again many 3d artist told them to go outside, take off their shoes and kick rocks. As if those were not enough buffoonery, they decided to slash artists’ royalty rates significantly with a harebrained impossible to attain and sustain imbecilic rating system. This new system led to instant 7-10% decline in royalty rates for a very large number of the artists. While the 3d artists were already on the ground writhing in agonizing pain, these sadistic unscrupulous ghouls who have blatantly refused to take “no” for an answer decided to get in some licks with this new policy that will take effect on July 14, 2025. A very odious policy apparently geared toward forceful takeover of 3d artists’ intellectual properties for generative ai purposes against their wish, even after the models have been deleted and removed from their marketplace. I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure that is illegal in every jurisdiction. So what’s next, because I do not think they have hit rock bottom. Perhaps 3d artists will be mandated with no opt-out option to pay CGTrader a monthly subscription fee to publish models which CGtrader will automatically own. The only viable option is for 3D artists delete all models from CGtrader before July 14, 2025 and beyond and get ready for a massive class action lawsuit against the unscrupulous marketplace because one can reasonably infer from their recent dubious actions that they are very likely to retain possession of your 3d models and use them as they please, against your wish, even after artists have deleted and removed them from CGTrader. Whatever they say cannot be trusted. Their assurances must me considered meaningless and without merit.

Model is good and accurate but I have buildings problems with sprues! Some of the parts have to be made horizontally some vertically. Lots of trial and error . Got it fixed sort of but no way to print fenders on car body. They are weak and fall off. Radio antenna always breaks off. No problem but I can’t modify it myself.

CGTrader offers many choices for 3D models, etc.

CGTrader always manages to present something negative for us in the most positive way! ;) - They unilaterally changed the payment method to Hyperwallet. - My "Settings" mysteriously reset to "Participate in promotions" last month, even though I had it set to "NOT participate" since I joined. - A mysterious company buys tons of models within minutes, but I still can't see the payment on my dashboard even after a week. And now, with the new earnings calculation system based on the past 12 months, am I supposed to just accept losing 10%?! Good luck keeping your CG slaves, CGTrader!

I’ve been on this platform since 2019 and have invested years into building a high-quality, real-time-ready asset library. In 2021, I reached my peak performance in sales that year. Since then, despite increasing my portfolio from 24 to 54 carefully crafted models, my sales have dropped by roughly 80%. With this new payout system based only on the past 12 months, I’m being pushed down from an 80% royalty rate to under 70%, not because my content declined in quality or effort, but because the platform-wide visibility and sales have tanked. That’s deeply disheartening, especially when CGTrader’s competitive royalty model was one of the main reasons I stayed here instead of switching to marketplaces like TurboSquid. It feels like long-time, dedicated sellers are being penalized for shifts we can’t control — from AI flood and batch uploads to algorithm changes and declining platform traffic. I will be increasing my prices to try and absorb the drop in royalties, but if that doesn't stabilize things, I’ll strongly consider moving my portfolio elsewhere. I really hope CGTrader reconsiders how this change affects loyal contributors who helped shape the platform in the first place. Thanks for your time,