You never need to walk alone.🙂 Let’s go! If you ever feel stuck with SketchUp or V-Ray, just contact me and I’ll help you. Whatever tools you choose to learn, we hope that this guide will help you create better renders.

It helps this guide keep relevant as the landscape of digital tools changes – as it has been doing at breakneck speed for fifty years. Therefore, we will hold back referring to specific buttons or values. The fundamental principles behind the craft remain the same. We hope that parts of this guide may be useful also for rendering interiors and other subjects, and perhaps for rendering digital 3d stills in general. But the particular versions should not matter that much. We created the image above using V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, on SketchUp 2021 Pro, on Windows 10. It serves as a point of departure for our discussion. This particular render is a still image of an exterior architectural setting. We will also examine the value of visual style and photorealism. Along the way, we will discuss how to think when creating a render, warn against common pitfalls, and share some decent tips. The text gives a rough breakdown of how we made it. This guide is intended to be easy to understand, non-technical, and relevant to both beginners and professionals.Īs a starting point, take a good look at Holygon’s rendered image above, Chihuahua Incident Noon.

And if you persevere, your good renders may become great. This tutorial provides 10 simple steps for making good digital renders. Founder of Swedish 3d studio Holygon.Ĭomputers are useless.

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