Sunday, October 16th, 2022 Posted by Jim Thacker

Download KitBash3D’s free Mission to Minerva model kit


Online asset store KitBash3D has released Mission to Minerva: a kit of 90 free 3D models intended for kitbashing sci-fi buildings, machinery and vehicles.

The free kit is intended for use in Kitbash3D’s Mission to Minerva community art challenger, which asks artists to use the assets to create still concept images or animations.

The models are provided in FBX and OBJ format, as scene files for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, and for the Unity and Unreal Engine game engines.

Use the free sci-fi kitbash models to enter the Mission to Minerva art challenge
Created for the Mission to Minerva art challenge, the free kit contains modular parts for creating 3D buildings and vehicles, from “cargo ships, terrain rovers and terraformers to community centers”.

To enter the contest, artists must use the assets to create either a still image or animation and share it on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or ArtStation using the hashtag #KB3Dchallenge before 2 December 2022.

The contest is being judged by art directors and recruiters from ILM, Riot Games, Netflix and CD Projekt Red, with prizes including Wacom pen displays, Nvidia GPUs and training from The Gnomon Workshop.

Licence conditions and system requirements
The Mission to Minerva kit is a set of modular parts for creating 3D buildings and vehicles, comprising 90 individual models.

The assets are provided in FBX and OBJ format with 2K or 4K textures, and for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya, Unity and Unreal Engine, with support for Arnold, OctaneRender, Redshift and V-Ray.

The kit is free to individual artists, including for commercial use. You need to register for a free account on KitBash3D website in order to download it.

Download the free Mission to Minerva from KitBash3D’s website
(Requires registration for a free account)