One of the most common tips for creating photorealistic scenes is to use high-quality PBR textures, which are mostly not free, but is this the best way? Using multiple textures photographed in different locations under different lighting conditions can result in a lot of work and an unrealistic result if the textures don’t match well with each other.

In this tutorial, we will use a photo I took with my mobile phone on the street at a bad angle in collage with concrete texture, plus one free Photo from Unsplash.com for the interior and try to turn it into a realistic 3D object and scene. With these limited resources of only two photos, we will create this scene from start to finish in just 3 hours.

With this method, you can turn any photo into a realistic 3D model quickly and easily in Blender. We will talk about modeling, unwrapping, creating realistic materials, lighting, post-processing, and more.  The tutorial is also suitable for beginners. 

Language: English + subtitles
Duration: 3 hours
Video resolution of the tutorial: 2k
All resources and the final .blend file are included 

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01 – Projecting image on a model – 5 min
02 – Fixing UV – 12 min
03 –  The main material – 12 min
04 – Glass material – 8 min
05 – Emmision materijal – 10 min
06 – Neon sign – 6 min
07 – Wireframe Modifier – 10 min
08 – Adding details – 15 min
09 – Overlays – 11 min
10 – Camera settings – 5 min
11 – Ground – 2 min
12 – Lighting – 4 min
13 – Walls and decoration – 18 min
14 – Compositing and lens flare – 13 min
15 – Post processing – 19 min
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