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Behind the Scans: Namaqualand

Bart ·

Polyhaven shares an amazing library of HDRis, Textures and 3D Models – all for free under a CC0 license. For their latest project, Namaqualand they traveled to the desert for a week to capture as many assets and environments as they could. See how they did it in this video!

In September 2023, the Poly Haven team embarked on a journey to an arid desert near the West coast of South Africa: Namaqualand.

The goal? Build a free 3D asset collection to recreate what we saw there.

It took more than a year to process all the data we captured and turn it into high quality 3D assets for everyone. Support more trips and assets like this by joining our Patreon!

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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