Hi all!
I just got a project at work, to do a presentation that will present a new concept related to transportation in israel , in the minute that the customer told me the subject, I start to imagine how to use blender in it… also before, every time I have a presentation with many hours in the budget, I find a way to use blender in it.
Now what I’m looking for is some cars and trucks models that can be used in commercial product, so if some one can tell me where I can get models for free that are suitable for commercial use, please replay or PM me, also if someone that have this kind of models and won’t care to share it for commercial use, I will be glad to have them in the presentation…
Thanks
Eyal
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=3d+free+car+models
There are some converters availible so you should be able to port some models from popular formats such as .3ds, but I don’t think there are that many free Blender models lying around. Unless someone’s up for a generous donation 
Well, I know Google, and most of those sites, the best format is Vrml, I did search more then once for this kind of models, Lately I seen many cars models in the forum and I thought maybe some of them are avilable on line
Thanks any way
Eyal
eyal - try blendermen… can you tell me is it all about? Tel-aviv underground parking lots? - yeah right. not in my life time.
Hi aner
blender man models are great but as much as I know arn’t suitable for commercial use (only for non-commrcial, mean its good to play with).
as for this project I work for a software company, in the golan (katzrin), we do many transportation related stuff, and I do many transportation related presentations, this one specific is for a Karmiel based company and its somthing with parks for training drivers in hard condition roads and such…
there is alot of visualation to do in aspect of architecture (show how the place going to look), maybe some explantion about driving in hard conditions and whatever the budget aloud for 3d FX and outer blending (its look better then internet or scaned images)
It’s look like the most intresting presentation I do until now, hope the budget won’t destroy the fun
Eyal
Edit-P.S. And by the way the tel aviv underground parking lots are exist for more then ayear I think, just near the beach (around the american emmbassy)
sorry but i say “pay the damn original creators of the models”
IMO its somewhat rude to expect others to do work for you for free, sure blender is free and a lot of work has gone into it, but as soon as someone starts selling blender i would expect them to give credit, and money to the people that have put in their time.
$10 a model, there are plenty of models around this community. that won’t cost you much considering the time that has gone into them. work it on a proportion of what you are earning and then divide how much money you are giving to each model creator. doesn’t need to be much IMO
Alltaken
Hi Alltaken,
I was not surprised to get a replay like that I was actually accepting one…
It’s took me some years before I could get money for doing blender, and this also happen because I’m working at this kind of job (in charge on graphics and multimedia (between outer thing I do) in a software dev house).
I will be the last one to un appreciate modeling.
About credits, I thought it’s clear (it’s was always clear to me) that in open source communities, and when money isn’t involved credits is a must, about money- I don’t see any way that my company will pay even a 50 $ per model when its involving sending money over seas (specially when we need a invoice and receipt for that).
What is usually standing in front of me is to show blender capabilities and the way this software fit perfectly for creating fast and effective animation and Images for presentation.
If you notice first I ask for places to get models (and I know some, just needed more), and then by the way offer people that wanted to let me use there models to do so…
So any way the worst case I can model my self, I’m going to do so in aspects of architecture and I’m going to use Make Human, L-system, fiber \ beast and even (hopefully) blender people to achieve the best animations- in- presentation I can get (excuse me for that), all this great freeware will get a credit, hopefully it’s will even be watched because this presentation is also for personal use, again all for the sake of blender!
Hope you understand else you can stay pist off…
Cheers
Eyal
P.S. -by the way I hope it’s will be Ok with you that I will use this community to get feed back on my blender work related to this commercial presentation (and not giving credits to each comment, but to elysiun.com in general… %|
A thought: how about a MakeCar, just like the wonderful MakeHuman script?
lol e-tek
it is not getting free models that pisses me off or anything.
it was an undertone which i perhaps wrongfully recieved from your original post.
i got the feeling that you “expected” and somewhat thought you “desirved” free stuff, just because it was an open source community.
that is all i was objecting to.
IMo the easiest way to get models of cars and such form the community is doing a search of the forum for car, and then PMing each artist of each car, and i saw a really really nice truck recently with a blender logo on the side.
i personally am happy to give models away for free, but if i were to ever find out they were used in commercial work (unless they were like 1 pixel big) i would be like Grrrrrrr
P.S. -by the way I hope it’s will be Ok with you that I will use this community to get feed back on my blender work related to this commercial presentation (and not giving credits to each comment, but to elysiun.com in general… icon_rolleyes.gif
feedback is often giving without expectation of any credit. it is considered a “gift”
so sure go ahead
Alltaken
Hi Alltaken,
Well this is the answer I was looking for:
IMo the easiest way to get models of cars and such form the community is doing a search of the forum for car, and then PMing each artist of each car, and i saw a really really nice truck recently with a blender logo on the side.
Thanks 4 that
and as you can see I never ever tought about using models for commercials, with out asking promition (I.E. steal them !?!), even that If I will do that , no body should know, you see I’m agood person
Cheers
Eyal
If you want, on my web you can find some cars(No truly perfect! ) but you can use it, and on the futures I put new good cars for any use!Stay tuned, for some new, great Cars.
Sorry for my English.
The model look really good, I PM’ed you, please answer
Thanks Eyal