Shop
Finished work, sold outright: models, music, footage, design and printed goods. Each is published wherever that kind of thing is already bought, so you can use an account you have rather than opening another one. Some of it you download, some of it arrives in the post — the sections below are sorted by which.
3D
Models built to a brief and published wherever people buy them. What you get is a file you download.
Fab
Epic’s marketplace, and where the old Unreal Engine Marketplace and the Sketchfab store were folded together. The one to use if you are building in Unreal.
CGTrader
A large independent marketplace with broad format coverage. Usually the quickest route to a specific file format.
TurboSquid
The oldest of them, and the one most companies already have a purchasing relationship with. If procurement is involved, it is the path of least resistance.
Unity Asset Store
The half of the games market Fab does not cover. Anything built for Unreal has a Unity counterpart worth publishing.
Sketchfab
Not a shop — the store side moved to Fab — but the best place to judge the work before buying it elsewhere. Every model turns and zooms in the browser at full resolution, which shows topology and texturing that preview renders hide.
Adobe Stock 3D
The 3D side of Adobe Stock, which is a different shelf from the photography further down this page. Worth having because it reaches designers already inside Creative Cloud, who never visit a modelling marketplace.
RenderHub
Smaller than the big three, and stronger on characters and figures than on props. Sells to the DAZ and Poser crowd, who buy nowhere else.
Games
Work made to be played or built with rather than rendered — asset packs, tools and anything finished enough to run. Sold where developers already look.
itch.io
Where independent developers actually shop, and the least corporate of them. Good for asset packs and for anything playable.
Sound
Music and sound design, licensed for use in other people’s work. A track written once is sold for as long as it is listed.
AudioJungle
Envato’s audio marketplace, and the busiest single destination for royalty-free music and effects.
Pond5
Music, effects and footage in one place, which suits a studio that produces both.
Artlist
Subscription rather than per-track licensing. A different buyer: production companies who license continuously rather than per project.
Splice
Loops, one-shots and sample packs — raw material for other producers rather than finished cues.
Film & photography
Footage and stills, licensed the same way. Material already shot for past projects is inventory that currently earns nothing.
Adobe Stock
Sits inside the software most buyers already have open, which is most of why it sells.
Shutterstock
The largest general library, and the one corporate buyers default to.
Storyblocks
Subscription-based, aimed at people producing volume on a fixed budget.
Artgrid
Curated and cinema-leaning. Higher bar to get in, less competition once you are.
Design
The reusable half of design work: fonts, textures, templates, mockups, icon sets, and the colour grades already built for film work.
Creative Market
The most designer-facing of them, and the best fit for fonts, textures and brand kits.
Envato
GraphicRiver and Elements together reach the widest audience for templates.
Design Cuts
Curated bundles rather than an open marketplace. Fewer listings, better margins.
AI
The tooling itself, sold as a product rather than used as one. This is the only category on the page where the studio has an advantage most sellers do not.
Civitai
Where trained models and LoRAs are actually distributed and discovered.
Workflow packs
ComfyUI graphs, prompt sets and pipelines, sold direct. What takes a client three weeks to work out is a file here.
Artwork on things you can hold. What you get is an object, made and posted when you order it.
Redbubble
The wider catalogue: prints, apparel, cases, stickers and homeware, each made and shipped when someone orders it.
Threadless
Apparel first, and a more curated shopfront. The same artwork, chosen for the things people actually wear.
INPRNT
Gallery-grade art prints. Lower volume than Redbubble, considerably better margin and considerably better paper.
Displate
Metal posters, and a buyer who is decorating a room rather than buying a novelty.
Society6
Homeware and furnishings — the same artwork on objects the others do not make.
Etsy
The one place on this list where a physical 3D print can be sold as a finished object rather than as a file.
3D printing
The bridge between the two halves of the page: files meant to leave a printer as objects.
Pinshape
Files prepared to come off a printer as an object rather than to sit in a scene. You download it and print it yourself.
Shapeways
The same files, printed and posted for you, in materials a desktop machine cannot manage.
Direct
Everything above is someone else’s platform, taking a cut and owning the customer. This is the studio’s own counter — the only one where the buyer is a buyer rather than a stranger a marketplace lent out.
Gumroad
Sells any digital file with almost no setup, at a fraction of a marketplace cut. The fastest way to have a shop of your own.
Payhip
The same idea with EU VAT handled for you, which matters when you are selling from Germany.
Not on the shelf
Everything above is finished work, already made. If what you need does not exist yet, that is commissioned rather than bought — Work is what the studio takes on, and Contact is the way in.