HQ Gallery: 3D Turnable Images

In the virtual world, the quality of the rendering can have a huge impact on the appearance of an outfit, especially when it comes to simple tailoring, which can often be overshadowed by cheaper pieces.

In the fashion industry, CLO3D and VStitcher are commonly used, so VRay's rendering effects are generally familiar. To launch a service that generates high-quality 4K turnables in real time, the first step is to choose a renderer. There are so many options, so we'll evaluate three candidates.

Renderer comparison:

	Cycles	Vray	Unreal
Implementation and Upgrade Difficulty	easy	easy	complicated
Render Time	Medium (sample 1024)	Long (4 sub div)	short
Rendering Device	GPU/CPU	GPU/CPU	GPU
Shader Compatibility	good	good	Good/Blueprint available separately
File Compatibility	blend/fbx/glb/c4d	fbx/glb/whatever	fbx only
cost	none	expensive	Varies
Quality	expensive	expensive	expensive
Farm Support	many	many	few

In the end, we decided on Cycles. Blender 2.8 and later has a full range of features comparable to mainstream applications and a Python API, so we thought it would be ideal for building a pipeline where rendering scenes are created in a worker environment and sent to a render farm.

The soft shading and lighting provided by global illumination are soothing to look at.