Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies

Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.

Friday, June 17th, 2016

Download Maxime Roz's six free high-res interior HDRIs

Updated: New pack of five free HDRI interiors available. All 7K images, licensed for commercial use.

Monday, June 29th, 2015

Download 18 free HDRIs from BoCo Studio

Download a set of ultra-hi-res panoramic HDRI exteriors, all licensed for commercial use.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

Get 26 free HDRIs in EXR, HDR and Marmoset formats

Download Joost Vanhoutte's pack of 26 3K-resolution HDRIs. 23 of them are licensed for commercial use.

Monday, February 16th, 2015

Download Viz-People's HDRi v1 collection for free

Get ten 12,000px x 5,800px spherical HDRs taken at different times of day, each with its own tonemapped PNG.

Friday, November 21st, 2014

Download free spherical HDRIs from Panocapture

Get three 16k x 8k City Dusk panoramas in HDR format, plus 23 accompanying backplate images.

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Download a free 8K HDRI of Pixar's campus

Light your scenes with a 32-bit HDR of Pixar's Emeryville HQ - complete with its giant model of Luxo Jr.

Thursday, May 29th, 2014

How to spot a bad HDRI

Updated with new video: Hyperfocal Design's Jay Weston explains how to spot and fix duff HDR image files.

Friday, May 16th, 2014

Download two free timelapse HDRI sky domes

Updated with new timelapse: get two 1,024 x 512 sample timelapse skies from Hyperfocal Design.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

Download a free HDR image set from HDRI Hub

Get an sIBL image set of a city by night. Licensed for commercial use, and good for automotive renders.

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Download three free HDRIs from Ten24's 3D Scan Store

Two exteriors and one useful studio interior, all captured at 10,000 x 5,000 and licensed for commercial use.

Monday, January 20th, 2014

Download a free 16,000 x 8,000 HDRI file

Get Michał Jaszowski's ultra-hi-res sIBL package of a sunny winter landscape from his Full Frame site.

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Gnomon releases new DVD on HDRI capture for VFX

New two-hour video tutorial demystifies the art of High Dynamic Range Imaging for Live Action VFX.

Friday, June 1st, 2012