To kick off 2025, we launched our brand-new, industry-leading 3D Scenes and 3D Backgrounds. Optimized for a variety of DCCs—from Unreal Engine to Blender to VRED—our 3D scenes integrate color-calibrated RAY HDRi Maps, 360° visuals, ground planes/3D floors, and custom 3D elements for realistic parallax.
Our artistic community is already responding with overwhelmingly positive feedback on these new 3D scenes.
We’re also thrilled to share that many artists have begun incorporating our 3D scenes into their personal and production work.
For our February Artist of the Month, we’re thrilled to highlight David Baylis, a longtime member of the CGI.Backgrounds community who has proven pivotal to the launch of our new 3D Scenes and 3D Backgrounds, both as an advisor, an educator, and a world-class 3D artist.
As the founder of David Baylis Design , Baylis focuses on automotive rendering for clients including Porsche North America, Rivian, and more. Baylis also brings experience at Epic Games, where he created webinars and video tutorials around 3D rendering.
You may recognize Baylis’ gifts as an educator from the clear, comprehensive videos on our Getting Started page , where he walks our newest users through setting up an account and using the CGI.Backgrounds site.
Now, Baylis has turned his skills–both as an artist and a teacher–towards showcasing the power of our new 3D Scenes and 3D Backgrounds.
In a recent video, Baylis walks users through finding 3D Scenes on the CGI.Backgrounds site and adding them to Unreal Engine, shows the problems they solve, and demonstrates creating a stunning render–all in under 6 minutes!
David Baylis Demos 3D Scenes in 3DSMax
Baylis has also been busy experimenting with our new 3D Backgrounds, demonstrating firsthand how they can serve as a powerful tool for quickly creating single-angle shots with precise lighting and high quality visuals.
And he has a new video about using our 3D Scenes in 3ds Max.
We'll be rolling those videos out in the coming week. Make sure to join our newsletter so we can let you know as soon as they're live!
It’s wonderful to see our artistic community embracing our new 3D Scenes and finding them to be a valuable addition to their workflows. We’re thrilled to have an artist and teacher of Baylis’ caliber in our corner, and we’re proud to highlight him as our February 2025 Artist of the Month.
You can see more of Baylis’ work on the David Baylis Design website.
Want to try our 3D Scenes and 3D Backgrounds for yourself? We have free 3D Scenes available for you to test, and you can explore all of our scenes by using the 3D Scenes filter on the CGI.Backgrounds site search.
Likewise, you can search for both free and premium 3D Backgrounds.
You can also read more about the technical aspects of our 3D Scenes and 3D Backgrounds. Join our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all of our Artists of the Month!
