Steve Luvender is the Founder and President of Trading Paints, sim racing’s custom livery design community.
Artist Spotlight
We caught up with Kyle Sykes, Creative Director for Trackhouse Racing, to ask him about his path from posting concept paint schemes on Instagram to leading design for one of NASCAR’s most innovative teams. Here’s what he had to say about motorsports design and his creative journey.
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There’s something we love about fake brands in sim racing games — names nobody’s heard of, appearing on cars made up of pixels. No fears of disappointing your paying sponsors when you cause the first-turn-first-lap pileup. No concerns about losing paid representation when you tweet that pineapple belongs on
Season Recap
Week 13 is winding down, and that’s a wrap on 2024 Season 3. It’s been a lot of fun to watch the painting community thrive and continue to create some of the coolest custom paints we’ve seen in iRacing, from experienced artists to newcomers alike. We’ve
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Sure, we’re a little late to the party, but Trading Paints is now on Instagram. Follow us at @tradingpaints, where we'll showcase custom paints from the community, share tips, tricks and creative inspiration, and highlight the creators that make up our wonderful community. View this post on
Artist Spotlight
In the second installment of our Artist Spotlight series, we asked graphic designer and popular Trading Paints painter Ryan Daley eight questions about the world of motorsports design from his perspective.
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Four styles of Trading Paints shirts are now available and ready for your closet.
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Members of the Trading Paints team had a blast participating in iRacing’s 4th Annual MS Charity Race Wednesday night, which raised over $40,000 for the National MS Society. Pro drivers and motorsport figures, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chad Knaus, and Tony Kanaan, competed in the GT3 class — you
Artist Spotlight
In our new monthly blog series, we’re asking creators in the Trading Paints community eight questions about the world of motorsports design in their eyes: what makes them unique as an artist, what their process looks like, and advice they can offer to others.
Product Updates
We’ve released another update to Paint Builder to make some improvements and fixes. New * On selected oval cars that support painting pit sign boards, your profile photo will be automatically loaded into your project’s pitboard by default as a Car Parts layer for new projects. * You can now
Product Updates
We’ve released another small update to Paint Builder to make some improvements and fixes. Improved * When using Mirror Clone on a layer with a skew or shadow offset applied, the X value of the skew and shadow are now taken into consideration. * If a driver’s name contains a
Product Updates
We’ve added some new features and improvements to Paint Builder to make your pre-season painting a little more fun. New * Seamless saving! Paint Builder will no longer appear to stop and refresh the project view every few minutes, which it did previously to update the project’s preview image
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In the 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 release on January 23, 2024, iRacing released new art updates for the popular NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Ford Mustang and the NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Toyota Camry stock cars, modeled after their on-track NASCAR counterparts that have been refreshed for the