The best places to find 3d art

3D is one of the most important sources of inspiration for digital artists. Daz3d Studio and Poser are the most used softwares and tools for digital and web artists. Thanks to these softwares is possible to create 3d characters, environments, poses and 3d animated scenes. Both Poser and Daz3D are free to download. You have only to pay for specific resources or contents and addons that you need in order to create some specific artworks. Around these tools is born a large and vibrant community of artists, enthusiasts and fans that create contents and share them on the web.

Human figure seems the most popular content among 3d contents. Mainly ?Poser? provide users with huge and exciting tools for 3d body creation and modeling. So you can create antropomorphic creatures, realistic poses and perfect 3d modeling.

Many artists sell their creations in specific marketplaces as Renderosity, where users can buy and sell thousands of contents for 3d creations. From characters to props, furnitures for rooms, objects, etc. Renderosity provide its members specific tools and features to sell any type of 3d content.

Along with the marketplace, there are also high popular online repositories for images, videos, characters created with 3d software. These communities are mostly to create photo and art gallery and are used by many artists that want to showcase their talents as 3d modelers and artists.

The most important hangouts for 3d artists are Koinup and Deviantart.

DeviantArt is an online community for several forms of user-made artworks. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others.

Koinup is an online community for virtual worlds art and 3d creations. It is used both as a photo and video repository platform and as tool to share virtual worlds screenshots, photographs and machinima.

If you're a 3d artist, you might want to browse Renderosity to find stuffs for your upcoming creations or experiments in 3d. While, for ordinary users or art entushiasts, Koinup and Deviantart are the best places to enjoy wonderful images and amazing 3d photo artworks.

Silvy Noel is the author of this article on 3d art. Find more information about Koinup here.