Other online CG stores are quick to follow Exchange3D.com

It has only been days after I added YouTube previews to exchange3d.com and 3DExport.com has added this feature too, although AFAIK, mine looks better ;)

Selling animated 3D models online

Way too often I have customers ask me whether a model is animated or is suitable for animation, whether certain parts of a model are rigged, etc. In some cases, this is not a straightforward question to answer. Now that we have video previews, it is easier for a customer to determine whether a model is good for animation and what parts of it are movable. Another great 3D artist shows his 3D models in a YouTube video. Now, as you look at this 3D model of a Transformer robot-car (Lamborghini Gallardo to be exact) there is no doubts that it is rigged for animation, and you can see that everything moves in this 3D transformer.

Switching from DOJO to YUI

Thanks so much to Yahoo! for publishing their YUI library. I have been using Dojo in order to add some AJAX to Exchange3D.com website. Dojo generally worked, but boy, it is heavy and buggy! The best thing about dojo was that it could create dojo objects from existing HTML markup, which allows me to make search engine friendly pages and use AJAX at the same time. But now that YUI is available, I am switching everything to YUI. It is much faster, and much lighter, although it does not have as many features as Dojo.

Youtube video ad for Exchange3D.com

Check this out, one of our artists made a YouTube ad for his new model with reference to our online store where you can buy 3D models.
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Another happy customer

Isn't it a wonderful for a small business owner to start the day with receiving an email like this:

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thnx for your wonderful support!!!
we are not used to that!

thnx we will be back.

greetings from marc and ralph
of the netherlands
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made my day so far :)