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General Stock Discussion / PixelSquid Stock Imagery - Feedback / Thoughts?
« on: May 15, 2015, 11:45 »
Hello everyone,
I would like to share, and hopefully get your feedback or thoughts, on our recently launched stock image site, PixelSquid.com
Bit of back story - PixelSquid was created by the team at TurboSquid.com. Our background and experience is primarily in 3D. Our core business provides 3D models for use in games, simulations, advertising, film production, television, architecture, and news.
We realize that not all 2D users are users of 3D software and that the steps involved in creating and rendering 3D content are time consuming. PixelSquid is our step towards bridging that gap and making 3D more accessible.
With PixelSquid we provide 2D pre-rendered images at high resolution with all advanced layers that we get from the 3D file preserved. We provide this as a Photoshop file that contains the lighting, shadow, depth, object masking and area selection layers.
Because we are using the power of 3D to create the content, we are also able to provide customers with the ability to select from multiple angles of the object and in many of the products we include the ability for users to rotate the object to find the perfect angle.
Initial response from customers has been good and we are noticing that they are excited about using PixelSquid isolated content in conjunction with existing stock photography workflow. One of our users was excited enough to create a video showing how he uses the content in his workflow: https://www.msjphotography.com/index.php/2015/05/photoshop-workbench-474-compositing-with-pixelsquid-360-degree-stock-images/
Right now we are giving away $20 of credit free to everyone to try out PixelSquid content. We also have free content on the site to play with.
We'd love to get your feedback or comments on any aspect of the site or product.
Thanks,
Jonathan
I would like to share, and hopefully get your feedback or thoughts, on our recently launched stock image site, PixelSquid.com
Bit of back story - PixelSquid was created by the team at TurboSquid.com. Our background and experience is primarily in 3D. Our core business provides 3D models for use in games, simulations, advertising, film production, television, architecture, and news.
We realize that not all 2D users are users of 3D software and that the steps involved in creating and rendering 3D content are time consuming. PixelSquid is our step towards bridging that gap and making 3D more accessible.
With PixelSquid we provide 2D pre-rendered images at high resolution with all advanced layers that we get from the 3D file preserved. We provide this as a Photoshop file that contains the lighting, shadow, depth, object masking and area selection layers.
Because we are using the power of 3D to create the content, we are also able to provide customers with the ability to select from multiple angles of the object and in many of the products we include the ability for users to rotate the object to find the perfect angle.
Initial response from customers has been good and we are noticing that they are excited about using PixelSquid isolated content in conjunction with existing stock photography workflow. One of our users was excited enough to create a video showing how he uses the content in his workflow: https://www.msjphotography.com/index.php/2015/05/photoshop-workbench-474-compositing-with-pixelsquid-360-degree-stock-images/
Right now we are giving away $20 of credit free to everyone to try out PixelSquid content. We also have free content on the site to play with.
We'd love to get your feedback or comments on any aspect of the site or product.
Thanks,
Jonathan
