Artist Spotlight: Landon Milz
One of the youngest, established designers in NASCAR today, Chicago’s Landon Milz has begun to find his footing in what looks to be a fruitful career in motorsport design.
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Artist Spotlight: Kyle Williams
Kyle Williams, Graphic Designer at The Decal Source, shared his thoughts on his impressive career and insights into his process.
The results are in: the 2024 Paint of the Year is crowned
Jesse Abraham’s Neonizm Holographic Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R was voted 2024 Paint of the Year by the Trading Paints community.
Recap: 2024 Season 4 by the numbers
Another iRacing season is in the books — a 14-week schedule this time around. As always, we’ve enjoyed seeing creative passion in the community thrive with cars and painters both new and old. We’ve crunched some numbers over the past season, because who doesn’t love some stats? (Thanks
Artist Spotlight: Michael Carey
Meet Michael Carey, Digital Media Manager for JR Motorsports, whose unique position in the industry has made him a multidisciplinary talent with plenty of experience in a short amount of time — not to mention his tireless efforts to highlight fellow artists in the community.
New Number Builder updates have arrived!
We’ve released some new updates to Number Builder, our free tool for creating your own custom number styles. A new look and feel makes it easier to create your perfect number style, whether you’re working from your PC or playing around on your phone. (It’s not weird
New: Official Paints section of the Showroom
We’ve added a new, much-requested section on the Trading Paints Showroom for Verified Official paints. Verified Official paints are submissions published in the Showroom — usually representations of cars racing in real-world series — that are liveries provided by a race team, sponsor, driver, artist, series, or team representative in an
Artist Spotlight: Ryan Pistana
Alpha Prime Racing’s Creative Director, Ryan Pistana, shared his journey from console-game paint booths to designing some of the most memorable and eye-catching paints in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
5 tips for Showroom success
We’re sharing some tips to help you reach the Trending page in the Trading Paints Showroom.
Artist Spotlight: Kyle Sykes
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.
30 more fake brands join Paint Builder
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
Recap: 2024 Season 3 by the numbers
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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Trading Paints is now on Instagram!
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
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Artist Spotlight: Ryan Daley
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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A limited run of Trading Paints shirts is now available
Four styles of Trading Paints shirts are now available and ready for your closet.
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Trading Paints participates in the 4th annual iRacing MS Charity Race
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
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Artist Spotlight: Ryan Williams
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.
Paint Builder Update Notes: June 21, 2024
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
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Paint Builder Update Notes: February 23, 2024
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
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Paint Builder Update Notes: February 12, 2024
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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Tips for iRacing’s 2024 NASCAR art update
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
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Paint Builder Update Notes: January 3, 2024
Cheers to the New Year! We’re excited to announce the launch of exciting new features in Paint Builder to enhance your experience in customizing iRacing paints. Highlights of today’s release include the Share Uploads feature, the ability to Mirror Clone a layer, the option to save your favorite
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Trading Paints Update Notes: September 6, 2023
Welcome to iRacing’s 2023 Season 4! We’ve made some updates on Trading Paints to coincide with the new iRacing build. Vehicle updates The iRacing crew was hard at work this build to bring us five — FIVE! — new vehicles. New vehicles: * Added support for iRacing’s new Acura ARX-06
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Paint Builder Update Notes: August 15, 2023
We’ve just dropped some new features and bug fixes for Paint Builder to make designing your custom iRacing paints even better. Today’s release includes the ability to favorite Graphics and Logos, the addition of the eydropper tool, a function to duplicate Car Parts layers, and more options for