We're a community of 3D artists that help 3D artists make their work come alive. We usually use Blender and the browser, but are open to other softwares for sure!

We are a group of people working together by our own accord. We are not an official & registered organization (although we hope to be eventually). While we try our best to weed out bad actors from the community there might be bad actors so please report and contact us if you have concerns.

No. We're an independent community.

Sketchfab and other similar websites don't recreate shader nodes with lots of interactivity. They're usually baked textures that don't allow for much customization and are for viewing only rather than interacting with.

You can use the join/contact button to join the community Discord and find more ways to connect! Whether you want to help out, showcase your own work, or just lurk around, definitely don't be afraid to say hi!

Absolutely! We'd love to help out! Feel free to reach out through the Join/Contact page! You can have an option to opt out of AI-assisted technical porting as well. See other FAQ for details. Additionally, we encourage you to use the resources page to find learning resources so you can be able to do it yourself one day! That's our core mission after all!!! We don't have to do the port either, we can just be a guide/consultant!

AI is only used to help with technical aspects of porting over work, there is no other use of AI such as training models or generating images and the Blender file or any other file is deleted after the port. At the end of the day, we say what we do upfront and we hope our intentions are clear, a section for more human connection and effort and another one for more transactional use cases. If there are hidden agendas assumed we rather you trust your gut and self rather than us. And we mean that. We're human too and we get it.

Yes, but we trust that visitors of the site will pay when there is payment. There will always be bad actors, but we don't think it should hinder our mission to inspire other 3D artists by displaying it live.

We don't know, whether it does or not is not doesn't affect our mission. We had this same mission even before AI became a thing. If the bubble pops we're just gonna go back to handwriting code.

We are not fully sure, but we are hopeful.

We like to get permission as some ports might include the use of AI and not every creator is okay with that! There are also many other reasons like if the creator doesn't want to be affiliated with another organization whom they could potentially disagree with on core values or simply because they want to keep their work self-contained even if they freely give it away on their own channels.

Some of them have licenses that allow us to use the art as long as they are credited. If any artist requests their work to be removed it will be removed the same day with no questions asked even if they agreed originally. However, no gated/paid work done by an artist will EVER be ported over without permission first.

We are afraid of this, but to be fully transparent, we don't know how much we can prevent this. We only use AI to help with technical porting not with the art itself. We never train any models on any artists' work or generate any images. AI is only used for technical assistance. However all artists' that like to port there work over have an option of having us hand code a port.

No. Not every work shown is fully optimized. Some are for users with specific devices. While we try our best to optimize for all devices, not all art works will be fully accessible.

The original creator of Blended Web Artists is Andrew Woan. He's currently a 25 year old Asian man living in the United States. You can see him online and stuff, feel free to reach out to him at andrewwoan@blendedwebartists.org. There's no real start date to be honest lol. We're figuring out things as we go.