Computer graphics are getting more advanced every day and is on course to become as real as regular pictures, only better. It gets getting really hard to say what is real picture and what is computer graphics these days. Probably the easiest parameter on witch you can judge is that 3d graphics can contain the images of the impossible and unrealistically beautiful worlds. In their effort to create images of fantastic beauty, computer graphic artists can come up with some magical results, that are guaranteed to make you wanna learn photoshop and 3dmax.
Prepare your eyes on best of the best awesome 3D digital landscapes created by amateur and professional 3D artists.
Worlds Collide
Name: Ognian Bonev
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop
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Simply amazing work that is actually illustrating symbiosis of future technology space-craft with nature environment. It is absolutely necessary to see it full-sized! Great attention towards details combined with a very interesting concept idea. An award-winning work!
Hektor
Author: Marek Denko
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay
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At first it looks as just a lonely train, but great work with lightning and correct colors made this composition beautiful and finished. Besides look at the landscape itself – looks so damn realistic!
…dry dock…
Name: Adam Tredowski
Software: 3ds max
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Nice concept of dry dock contain alternate history-style presentations made in style called steampunk – a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction! Here we can see the elements set in Victorian era in England also made with great attention towards details. Awesome work!
Rail haven
Name: Marco Rolandi
Software: 3ds max, VRay
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Another specimen of steampunk style shows us a train station which we could see if only steam power was widely used. A very large-scale work with great number of details and also author was very successful in work with color.
Worth enough?
Name: Radoslav Zilinsky
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay, ZBrush
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The most scaled work in this review! Not only did Radoslav create a huge super-detailed 3D landscape but also has created a whole world with people and animals living there and a gentle hint to mankind to be careful with environment and global processes. We strongly recommend you to see this work in full size!
Hexagon’s Island
Name: Daniel Kvasznicza
Software: Cinema 4D, Corel Painter and Photoshop
Very cute work called ‘Hexagons Island’ from Daniel Kvasznicza will probably look great on your desktop as a beautiful wallpaper. Competent adjustment for the lighting and shadows made stunning work from simple number of stones.
Beyond The Horizon
Author: Morbid Comedian
Software: Terragen 0.92, Photoshop CS
I adore such beautiful space-themed landscapes with futurist motifs like this work called ‘Beyond The Horizon’. Formula is simple: Terragen + Photoshop + sense of taste = stunning 3D work.
Calm Beauty
Author: Simon Schulz
Software: Terragen, Photoshop
The title of this work is absolutely all-sufficient. This ‘Calm Beauty’ opens secret glad tiding and piece in our hearts. Great work with lighting, reflections and surfaces!
Carapibus
Author: Ãtalo
Software: Terragen, Photoshop, sxc.hu and Resurgere
There has obviously been a long hard work with different renders to make water look so realistic. Probably the special mood while creating has helped the author make such a romatic landscape view.
Red Leaves
Author: Mike
Software: Vue 6 Infinite, Photoshop CS2
This work looks a bit sad but nevertheless looks so beautiful! This work differs from others due to the scrupulous work with leaves and grass and special mood recreated from authors memories.
Migrations II
Author: Ashale
Software: Mojo, Bryce, Max and Photoshop
Great work that could become a cover for some sort of elite box of chocolates. There’s not much of the work in 3D software but still an awesome and very romantic composition.
Quiescent
Author: ZOOB
Software: unknown
Great composition with supposition to being photo-realistic. As for me it is too blurry to be perfect but anyways a nice illustration of little house in village.
Rice Valley
Author: airwreck
Software: Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop
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It’s a mouth dropping work by how huge it is – a landscape view called ‘Rice Valley’. View it in full-size to get maximum impressions from this great work!
Snow globe
Author: Matthew
Software: Photoshop, Vue 6 , Cinema 4D and Paint shop 6
Very nice work – snow-men under white tree with Earth on a background stylized like a souvenir snow ball. Not much of the hard modeling but the idea is great. Besides it reminds us of Christmas! 
Space Marine Strike Cruiser
Author: Andy Walsh
Software: Max 5, Brazil, Photoshop
‘Space Marine Strike Cruiser’ is a work which represents some episode of life in anti-Utopia world. This landscape reminds me a little of an “Equilibrium†movie.
Supreme
Author: Sacha Rattle
Software: Terragen, Photoshop
One more beautiful space-themed landscape here. The world that we can’t imagine and will never see. But because of how realistic it looks we can see what we’re missing
Welcome to Ill Fortune
Author: Robert Friis
Software: 3D Studio MAX, Photoshop
Welcome to Ill Fortune – is a work for authors role-playing project called Ill Fortune, set primarily in the little frontier town of the same name. Can’t wait until Robert finishes this project and hope to see more images from it.
Windhamhill – The Wishing Tree
Author: artofkerem
Software: Vue 5 Infinite + Photshop CS2
This sad view is inspired by song “The Wishing Tree†from Seamus McGuire. At first it looks as a very simple work, but it contains 3 lights, 1,687,631,610 polygons and 4 ecosystems. Not that simple now, huh? Also awarded with an ‘Image Of The Month Award’ by 3D World Magazine.
Those are pretty nice
awesomeness to the max !!
loved the one with modern art combine with mother nature.