Consider this an early holiday gift. 20 brand new metal textures to liven up your scene. My personal fave is 'Rainbow', a swirling iridescent material that makes everything look like it just fell out of a James Cameron movie. Great for adding that otherworldly touch to fantasy creatures like our friendly unicorn, here.
These are in the Texture library under 'Metals'. Enjoy!

Now you too can have your very own ill-mannered celebrity egomaniac in your scenes. He's basically a cardboard cutout, but if you ask me: not too far a cry from the real thing.



Click on the Google Objects tab to download it into your scene. Your search term is: Crasher Kanye West.

My OCD has kicked in once again. My latest is Crasher Squirrel - he's like the Paris Hilton of the animal kingdom. He started off the unlikely subject of a tourist snapshot,



but has recently become quite the media darling, spawning a whole bunch of nutty tributes. It seems only fitting he should pop up in a few SC scenes, too.



Click on the Google Objects tab to download it into your scene. Your search term is: Crasher Squirrel .

If you've updated your browser to the new Internet Explorer 8 recently, you may run into an issue dragging and dropping objects from the catalog into your scene. To overcome this, you just need to run SC in compatibility view, by clicking the icon that appears in your status bar here:

I had an idea for a 3D Scenes scene today, and it was supposed to include this little beauty, but I couldn't fit it in. Please: enjoy.



Zoom in really close if you want to change the colors of that ziggy-zaggy stripe.

Click on the Google Objects tab to download it into your scene. Your search term is: Hot Air Balloon - all geometry.