A collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models

If you feel like you're up to the challenge of building your own Ages in Blender or 3ds Max, this is the place for you!
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A collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models

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This is freaking awesome.

Link: 1,700+ photoscanned artifacts, free to download!
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Many museums around the world have started photoscanning their items to preserve them, and some have uploaded them to Sketchfab and made them not only free to download but CC0!

That means you can use them in your work (even commercially) without credit.
That means you can use them in your work (even commercially) without credit.
That means you can use them in your work (even commercially) without credit.
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Nice! That's one impressive collection. And very varied too, there's all kinds of stuff in there, decorative items, historical artefacts, animals, rocks, machinery, fossils even pieces of landscapes.. A lot of this stuff would feel right at home in Uru..

The meshes are quite heavy, but nothing the decimate modifier in Blender can't handle.

Thanks for the link! :)
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I'll be spending the week-end in the Apollo 11 command module.
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Nice find there Chacal! Thanks! As Aloys say, Sketchfab items can be downsized with the decimate tool, and best thing is that the texturing follows quite acceptable. Thats what's best for me ;) , I can sculpt and build objects but then Im not that good at painting my own textures.
An example of a decimated object from the site, original above, decimated below:
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Using a retopologizing tool would work too, and probably give better results (for the meshes where the detail matters a bit more).
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