Sketchfab just turned 5 years old! We started with a simple idea: let anyone publish and explore 3D on the web. 5 years later, with more than 800,000 community members who have published close to 1.5 million scenes, we are the largest 3D network in the world. This is an incredible validation that our initial idea was something people really wanted 🙂
The 3D landscape and the web have evolved quite a bit since we started. Back in 2012, our community was mostly made of professional artists, and the web essentially meant the desktop web. Today, our vision is powered by 2 mega trends:
- Everyone is becoming a 3D creator: with technologies like 3D capture coming to our smartphones, and tools like Tilt Brush or Medium letting you draw and sculpt in 3D space, anyone can capture the world in 3D or express themselves. This is great for beginners, but also empowers professional artists with better and faster workflows.
- Everyone is becoming a 3D consumer: we are moving from the information age to the experience age, and this shift is powered by 3D. With the VR and AR headsets coming to market, everyone needs virtual versions of things, people, places… 3D is becoming a common media format, consumed at scale like images or videos. 3D on the web is not limited to desktop only, and now runs great on mobile, and even on VR headsets thanks to WebVR.
We are proud to be a cornerstone of this ecosystem, filling a much needed gap by providing tools to creators and content to visitors.
This week, we are also celebrating another important milestone: more than 100 million unique visitors have accessed 3D or VR content through Sketchfab. In total, Sketchfab 3D scenes have gathered close to half a billion views.
This traffic speaks to the astonishing work published by our community. Content that keeps getting better and better as we improve our technology and keep adding new features (VR, physically based rendering, animations…). But this is not only about fabulous content. Great content doesn’t matter if no one can discover or access it. That’s why we spend so much energy making sure our technology runs on every device, and your content can be shared and embedded everywhere, to reach the widest possible audience.
We want to thank you, our community, for bringing us here. There is no way we could have done this without you, and the technology and platform we are building is only as good as the incredible work we host. Check out the journey we took together:
To the billion!
Woohoo! Happy Anniversary everyone! 🙂
Thank you for creating such a great platform for 3D designers! By far one of the best communities on the web. Congratulations on 5 fantastic years, and for many more to come =)
Moskow, Russia – Number 1. Yes, we love great things! 🙂 Congratulation, Sketchfab team and members! Have a good party, guys!!!!! =)
Happy Birthday Sketchfab, greetings from India
Happy 5th Anniversay….Keep the Faith…
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Happy Birthday to Sketchfab and the whole team behind it! 🙂
The last year had so many great additions and for me as a long-time community member I’m happy to have witnessed and contributed a small part to the growth of one of the most positive communities I’ve ever seen online.
Looking forward to the sixth Birthday! 😀
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Amazing platform!! Happy Birthday Sketchfab 😀
Wohoo, happy to have been a part of the sketchfab masters team for a Year.
Feels amazing how many great scenes get published each day.
Looking forward to another year of contests and tons of new models to discover
Congratulations and thank you for everything.
From Roumania with love.
awesome!!!! so exciting!
Happy Birthday to Sketchfab !! ( ゚∀゚)o彡°
Congratulation to your anniversary!
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thank you
Happy Birthday Sketchfab!
Happy Anniversary! And thanks for all the amazing designs.
WOW, time flies by when your doing awesome stuff 🙂 Keep up the great work guys.
Happy 5th Yearday, Keep up the Good Work!!!
Congratulations!!! And thank you to brig us this amazing platform.
Right On 🙂 ! Congrats! Thank You’s! And all the best 😀 !
Thanks for all!!!! and Congratulations for the fifth Anniversary an I hope to live to see the 50th…..xoxoxo
Happy Birthday Sketchfab! 🙂
Awesome!
You have come a long way guys … congrats! Once again and very sincerely, thank you for this great platform! ???
Happy 5th Anniversary! Friends. Congratulations.
Thank you and Happy Birthday Sketchfab!
Happy Anniversary, congratulaions to all the success!
Happy birthday to you all!
Bon anniversaire les gars 🙂
From la Bretagne !
Happy anniversary sketchfab, you’ve added 3rd dimension and movement to portfolios.
Incredible! Thanks for being an absolutely wonderful platform for browsing and showing off 3D content. Staff are always active, supportive and constantly improving the service. So hats off, really!
But you know what I can’t wait for on that timeline of events? The real deal, Sketchfab app. An app that can harness the full power of a mobile device, but browses through the models like the website.
The VR app is great – but this would really be something else. To the future of sketchfab and 3D!
Feliz Cumpleaños Sketchfab !!
Great job on 5 yrs. I love this site and I hope you continue to inspire people through 3D modeling.
Thanks! It’s coming soon, stay tuned… 🙂
Thank you all for the warm comments, such a pleasure to grow this together!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Congratulations Sketchfab 🙂