Renderosity

Renderosity is an online art community and marketplace for digital artists, with special emphasis on computer-generated 3D graphics, 2D graphics, photography and animation. Originally created as a Poser forum, it now has well over half a million members that use a multitude of different pieces of professional digital design software.
History
The community was founded in December 1998 under the name PoserForum.com, reflecting the group's original focus on use of the Poser software. The name was changed to Renderosity by community vote in October 1999. Over time, as the community grew and matured, so did the need to focus less on being a Poser centric community.
Renderosity is based in Nashville, TN.
Membership
Renderosity has well over 700,000 members. Membership is free for those wishing to upload a single piece of art per day, or a monthly subscription permits users to upload three pieces of art per day and gives access to the entire computer graphics community. That includes art galleries, tutorials, free downloadable content, discussion forums, artist biography pages, job board, animations, industry news and interviews.
Communities
There are many sub-communities within the site including artists' galleries, tutorials and forums. These cover a range of popluar mainstream 3D modeling and animation products as well as less well known software.
Marketplace
The Renderosity MarketPlace is an online content library for buying or selling computer generated art or, more commonly, components used to generate art, such as clothing for Poser or a building or object for 3DS Max. In addition, many brokers sell texture packs or add-ons for products created by other brokers. The MarketPlace is open to all Renderosity members and provides a brokerage program for artists interested in selling their digital products. Renderosity's large membership base allows artists access to a huge distribution channel for their products.
The top selling vendors are rewarded with various awards given out at the end of each year. Initially the only award given out was the Vendor of the Year - which was given to the vendor who had the most sales for the year. This has since been expanded to include the top selling new member that year (Rookie of the Year), the top selling product of the year (Most Valuable Product), and the vendor with the most number of products sold (All Star).
Site design
Renderosity is owned by Bondware, Inc. who provide the hosting and basic design of the site. Every two years, Renderosity holds a contest with its members to redesign the graphics of the website. Applicants submit their entries and the winner is selected by members of the community. Site design changes have occurred in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007.

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