I remember when I was first starting out to become an environment artist for video games I used those free SketchFab assets to help me learn. It’s great not having to create everything from zero, and on top of that they were free and downloadable. Even now from time to time I use them to fill in the blanks.
What will happen to all these free and downloadable SketchFab assets when Fab arrives? Are they auto-migrated?
And when i type in the web address SketchFab.com in mid-october, will it just reroute me to Fab.com or will there actually be a skeleton SketchFab website?
Hi @triangle_soup_46 . Sketchfab will remain open and continue hosting free-to-download content into 2025. The only thing that changes when Fab launches is that the Sketchfab Store will close.
Once migration to Fab becomes available for the Sketchfab community, those creators who offer free content on Sketchfab can choose to migrate their eligible models to Fab. Any models that they migrate to Fab will be available for free download on both Fab and Sketchfab unless they change the licensing settings in one place or the other. Eventually Sketchfab will remove the option to license models and at that time everything on Sketchfab will become “view-only”.
Fab will offer free content under both Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) and Standard licenses.
When will a simplified account setup be available for publishers of free content? If you want to migrate from Sketchfab, and don’t have any paid models, Fab still asks for payout information. I read earlier that there would be a more streamlined account setup procedure available for publishers who only provided free content, but so far I’m not seeing it. Will this show up before Sketchfab shuts down, or will all remaining free content from that site just disappear?
That’s still on our roadmap - likely to come along later in the year. The aim is to build a more streamlined onboarding process on Fab before Sketchfab shuts down so that it’s easier for people offering only free content to move their work over.