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Envato is setting up 3dOcean , an online marketplace where you can sell all your 3D assets: Get an invite here This is the kind of content they are looking for,  (from cg.tutsplus.com): 3D Models - We are looking for anything from animals over anatomy, buildings and architecture, deco and design elements, electronics, engines and parts, fantasy and fiction, furnishings, humans, plants, sports, toys, vehicles of all types, shapes and sizes, ... all the way to weapons and armor and even theme packages. Materials and Shaders - 3D models need good materials and shaders to unfold their full potential. If you have worked hard to create quality materials and shaders then this is the place where you can make them work for you. CG Textures - Every CG artist is always on the lookout for good texture resources and this section will be dedicated to textures that are optimized for the use in 3D applications. 3D Print - If you have created a digital piece of art that...

There is a list of links for free 3D furniture models, as supplied by the official manufactures on designconnected: ( http://www.designconnected.com/en/catalog/manufacturers_3d_pages/official+Manufacturers+Free+3D+Models ) I've only had time to check out one of the links on that site, and that is for http://www.moroso.it/ They have incredible real- life products, and they also have free 3d models of most of their products. The files are available in .3ds file format (3D), .dxf format (2D) and archiCAD format (3D). I downloaded the .3ds file for a product called "Around the Roses" (It's a collection of tables, although only one version of the table is supplied). The geometry seems fine as you can see in this screen shot below: However there are no textures included, so you will have to do some research and sort those out yourself. Here is my V-Ray render of the finished product: (I did modify the mesh a little) All in all, a handy list of links to have

I found some more free 3d car models here (3ds max file format) They seem to be pretty good quality Here is a Mercedes S55 that I rendered out. I had to change quite a few of the materials to V-Ray materials, because the file comes with some standard 3ds max materials, but other than that the models are pretty good. There is also a Nissan 350Z, Audi Q7, Honda S2000 and a bunch of other stuff

There is a new resource for 3D furniture models on the web, it's called design connected . They are partners with chaosgroup (the makers of the V-Ray renderer), so you know these models are going to work well with V-Ray. The models are fully textured and are available in the following formats: sketchup, Autodesk 3ds max, obj, fbz and Abvent Artlantis. There is also a native file format, that works with their free download manager software, which enables you to drag and drop render-ready objects straight into your max scene - pretty sweet! To get the products though, you first have to load up your account with credits, it's a kind of pay-as-you-go system. the models seem to be of an extremely high quality (Currently offering 1603 models from 301 manufacturers and 557 designers), and they are organised according products/manufacturerer/designers/themes. They even have links to the official manufacturers of the real-life products. All in all the service looks very professional, ve...

You can get Free 3D spaceships from NASA here: click There are all kinds of things available - 3D model of the Space Shuttle, Apollo Lunar Lander, the International Space Station, Skylab and many more. (All man made stuff, mostly US, no Area 51 or alien ufo's though :p) They are in .3ds format and come with lowish-res textures. I had to tweak the textures and model bit, but they seem to work fine, as you can see in the quick rendering I did above. Not bad for a free model. There are also some planet and space textures available, like this texture map of Mars and this map of a control panel from the Space Shuttle flight deck A handy resource if you need to make some spacey stuff!