is sketchfab dead? i used to visit it a lot back in 2020-2021. i just found out epic games bought it not long after i stopped visiting because i lost my account when formating my pc. i tried to make a new one but i can't without an epic games account. the newsfeed is nothing but top X of the week from all the way back to 2021 and the quality of the most recent works seems to have decreased considerably.it used to be a sort of twitter/pixiv for 3d artists back then now it looks like it's where people dump their generic porn game female models to sell. it was much better than artstation because it was 3d only and has a live model viewer
their website doesn't even work for menothing happens when I click on a listing and then I can't scroll down the page anymore
>>1025420The main reason why we stopped using it is because people can steal our 3D models. There is a tool that grabs your models with everything included. The faker then uploads and becomes more popular than you. So basically just like twitter where people steal art.
>>1025420It's too easy to rip the models, no decent artist will post there when that's the case. And since it's so easy for users, its more than likely whatever you post there will also be stollen and used to train some AI model which will use it to make 3d slop at 100x the speed you can make it
>>1025444I did not know thatwell, brb, time to learn some secrets!it's unfortunate that idiots ruin it for the rest of us, though
>>1025445How do you rip the paid models?
