Tutorial: Creating Photorealistic 3D Environments

Create portfolio-worthy 3D terrain in World Creator and Blender with the help of The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Saturday, April 12th, 2025

5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

Discover how to create photorealistic 3D props

Master industry-standard modelling and shading workflows in The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Master the art of creating a photorealistic interior scene

Create interiors for VFX work with Digital Domain lighting lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020

Watch Rebirth, Quixel's stunning photorealistic short

The 90-second sci-fi clip was made using real-world scans of Iceland, compiled and rendered in UE4.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Eye candy: Unity's weird new photorealistic real-time demo

Bizarre but beautiful interactive demo puts Unity's upcoming HD render loop through its paces.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

Get Epic Games' free model of a photorealistic human head

Download a free Unreal Engine 4 scene with a scanned model of a male head and 4K skin textures.

Sunday, April 16th, 2017

VFX techniques: how to build a photorealistic 3D city

Past Rodeo FX environment lead Jeremy Boissinot breaks down his workflow on Jack the Giant Slayer.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo

Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.

Monday, June 20th, 2016

ARTVPS releases new photorealistic renderer

Shaderlight plug-in ported from 3ds Max to SketchUp; offers physically based progressive rendering.

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

New Training DVD: Photorealistic Texture Painting

ILM Texture Painter shows you how to create photoreal textures.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

KeyShot releases KeyShot Studio 2025.3

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR and Cryptomatte and is now 'up to 50% faster' on AMD GPUs.

Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Download the free edition of RenderMan 27

Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.

Friday, November 14th, 2025