Photorealistic Renders: How to Convince People Something Digital Is Real

A 3D artist creates a photorealistic image mainly by going through four main steps, as explained by Andrew Price on his YouTube channel Blender Guru, with each step building on the previous step. The four steps 3D artists need to lovingly recreate reality at each step, they’re likely to spend the bulk of their time on materials and lighting to get to a photorealistic image. Photorealistic VR will heavily depend on our ability to not just create a single photorealistic image, but photorealistic environments that the player can walk around in and that the player can interact with, at a motion-to-photon latency that almost perfectly synced with the head and limb movements of the user in real life.

Source: lab.onebonsai.com