I then categorized these according to three major criteria: For each, I searched the site for the license terms (this varies from easily pasting text off of the front page to searching vainly for a non-existent notice and finally giving up). I took the original list and added a few sites I already knew about or found along the way. So some fact-checking was in order.ĭigging through these sites to find licensing terms is a major headache, as they quite frequently hide or omit this informationĭigging through these sites to find licensing terms is a major headache, as they quite frequently hide or omit this information, but with a long list of needed 3D models that I don't really want to create custom, I'm going to have to figure out which sites are clearly usable, which ones I might consider compromising on, and which ones are absolutely unusable for us.Īs long as I'm doing that, I might as well share the results! Like most lists of this type, it turns out that the word "free" doesn't really mean "free" for most of the content. Recently, I read a list of "60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites".
This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies, Lunatics, which we are working on as Anansi Spaceworks and Marya Morevna, through the Morevna Project.
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