If you've ever been faced with creating an interior scene or design, you know the pains you must go through to obtain or create the furnishings. You can spend days or weeks modeling even the simplest chairs, tables, desks and even small accessories. Now you can purchase these high-quality, low-cost models on one CD-Rom.

The Home & Office model library provides 381 models that can be used in every room in a typical home: everything from a full-featured entertainment center to the kitchen sink. And there are plenty of office models to create an office environment. The library is highly usable, because of the variety of models included.

The Home & Office models are presented in multiple file formats: 3DS, LWO6, and OBJ formats. According to research, these three formats cover 90% of the 3D graphics software market. If your program does not support these formats, included on the CD-Rom is a trial version of Deep Exploration, by Right Hemisphere. For the first 30 days after you install Deep Exploration, you can take advantage of the conversion capabilities of the program to transform these models to virtually any 3D model format. You can also use the program to view and rotate the models in real time, plus many other extremely useful model manipulation capabilities.

Marlin Studios also offers two companion texture libraries that can add to your interior work. The first is Seamless Textures 3 - Ultimate Interiors and Seamless Textures 9 - Fabulous Fabrics. Both libraries are full of textures that give you much more flexibility in building interior environments.

These models are priced so everyone can afford them, and are fully licensable and royalty free. Some companies offer 3D models on the Internet as individual downloads, ranging in price from $10 to hundreds of dollars per model. The drawbacks to this type of distribution are higher pricing, questionable licensing authenticity, and hours wasted searching the web for just the right model. Marlin Studios models are presented in one easily downloaded, searchable media (CD-Rom), priced to be affordable by anyone (in this case a little over 50 cents per model). And you know the models and textures are legitimate if you obtain them from Marlin Studios.