After hours of tirelessly scouring the web, I have done it! Below is a compilation of 50 of the most stunning pieces of CG artwork in the world. Composed in an array of different applications and styles, there is artistic inspiration here for everyone!
Please note: this article contains some mild artistic nudity.
Hyung Jun Kim
Hyung Jun Kim, aka K.jun, started learning CG around 12 years ago. He is now working as an Art Director at Ncsoft in Korea. You can find his website at: kjun.org.
Andre McGrail
Andre McGrail resides in Wellington, NZ, and works as a 3D artist at a local advertising company. Featured below are a few collaborative works with our next artist, Benjamin Parry.
Benjamin Parry
The roommate of our last artist, Benjamin Parry also resides in Wellington, NZ, and works as a freelance 3D Artist at Cluster.
Rebeca Puebla
Rebeca is a fantastic character artist freelancing out of Madrid, Spain. She works mainly in 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Zbrush and XSI. You can find her blog at: rebecapuebla.blogspot.com.
Balázs Pápay
Balázs Pápay is the winner of Design 21 Magazine’s 3D Contest, as well as the Choice Award Winner on CGTalk. He covers almost everything CG, and works as a 3D Graphic Artist at a post production house in Budapest, Hungary. You can find Balázs’ website at: www.bgx.hu.
Alex Kashpersky
Alex is the winner of many awards from sites such as CGTalk, Render.ru, 3DTotal, and also on his own site, ARTTalk.ru. You can check out his profile on ARTTalk.ru here: Alex on ARTTalk.
Z-Axis Team
This piece is posted under Victor Hugo Queiroz’s profile, but he is a 3D Illustrator at the Z-Axis 3D Studio. You can find out more about Z-Axis at their website: www.z-axis.com.br.
Alessandro Baldasseroni
Alessandro is a 3D Character Artist out of Los Angeles. He works at Blur Studio. For more information on Alessandro, you can check out his website at: www.eklettica.com.
Jack Zhang
Jack works as a Character Artist for Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada. He creates some phenomenal work, so be sure to check out the rest of his portfolio at: Jack Zhang Portfolio.
Sven Juhlin
Sven is a freelance Character Artist in Sweden. He works mainly in Zbrush, and has some killer characters on display in his portfolio. For more on Sven, check out his site at: www.daybreakcg.com.
Viki Yeo
Viki is the May 2009 Artist of the Month for Infinitee Designs. She creates some of the most realistic looking CG characters around. You can find her website here: Viki’s Website.
Sigurd Fernström
Sigurd is currently a student studying 3D graphics at Nackademin in Stockholm, Sweden. You can check out his website for some more artwork, and even animations here: sigurdesign.se.
Henrich Kimerling
Henrich’s website, kimerling.sk, is still under construction, so you are going to have to check out his CGSociety profile for more of his killer artwork.
Jose Mª Lazaro
This one piece by Jose really caught my eye. It is a virtually flawless depiction of Morgan Freeman. Jose has a ton of other great character renders too. Some are textured, and some are not, but all are awesome.
Michal Kwolek
Michal has a very cartoony style, but the pieces that I have showcased here display two vastly different ones. For more info on Michal, check out his website at: www.kwolek.org.
Daniel Lieske
Daniel Lieske is a Digital Artist located in the small town of Warendorf, Germany. Daniel started to work in game development in 1999, and now works as a Concept Artist for a major German game studio. You can see more of Daniel’s work on his website at: www.digitaldecoy.de.
Olivier Cannone
Olivier is a CG Level Artist, working at Asobo Studio in Bordeaux, France. It seems as though he is relatively new to the online community, so you are going to have tune in to his CGPortfolio for new work.
Sven Geruschkat
The amount of detail that goes into Sven’s work is amazing. The realism in his work is so vivid, that you can’t help getting immersed in the piece. You can check out more of Sven’s work on his website at: www.svenger.de.
Soenke Maeter
Soenke has won a bunch of awards for his work in Blender, his 3D application of choice. He has created some really amazing pieces, which you can see more of here: www.visual-noise.org.
Adrien Lambert
Adrien is 17 years old, and quite a capable 3D artist. You really have to go through his website to find some of his best stuff. Check it out here: adrian.art.free.fr.
Joel Sundberg
Joel has a very whimsical style to a lot of his sculptures. He only has a few pieces on CGsociety, so make sure you see the rest of them at: www.jobesu.se/home.
Fabricia Duque
Fabricia is a graduate of Graphic Design, and has worked as a 3D Artist, and Animator, at several different Post Production houses. He works in a broad range of styles, so make sure you browse his portfolio for some more CG goodness.
Simon Blanc
Simon works at Blur Studio, alongside Alessandro Baldesseroni (one of the other artists that made it on this list). This guy can create some seriously awesome Zbrush work. Check out his website at: www.simonblanc.com.
Dennis Frick
Dennis is one of the few Cinema 4D artists on this list…but don’t let that fool you. His work holds up against some of the best high-end application users out there. Check out his website here: www.dennisfrick.de.
Stephen Molyneaux
Stephen graduated from Bradford University in London with a degree in Computer Animation. Later on, he made the jump from the game industry to film, and now works at one of my favorite post production houses, the Moving Picture Company. You can check out his website here: www.old-boy.co.uk.
Ke Chen
This artist has a talent for creating hyper-realistic landscapes. Working mainly in 3Ds Max, Ke has quite a spectacular portfolio.
Oliver Ponsonnet
Oliver has a very creepy style. The use of lots of Gothic looking scenery and clothing, gives his work an extremely unique flavor. Check out his website for more: www.reiv.fr.
Jonas Thornqvist
Jonas has an amazing eye for detail, and his characters really reflect that. Check out the rest of his portfolio for more.
Greg Petchkovsky
Greg is a 3D and 2D Concept Artist working in Sydney, Australia. His portfolio is one of the few in this list that have 3D rendered videos available so you can see what he is working with. You can see it all on his website at: www.gregpetch3d.com.
Matt Roussel
Our last artist in this post is Matt Roussel. Even though his preferred tool of choice is Photoshop, his Cinema 4D work is quite fascinating. I felt it was quite fitting for “the end” of an article. You can see Matt’s website here: www.mattroussel.com.
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CG Society links don’t work properly. Otherwise it’s great.
I hope this doesnt turn into what PSDTUTS is and fill up with Interview style posts and blah… more screencasts, for the newbies… beginners guide to blender would help … etc.
WHAT !? oO
In my Opinion the Interviews are better then the Tutorials !
There are a lot of Tutorials in the net.
Interviews are just Awesome O.O
Hope more Interviews come….particularly on cg.Tutorialsplus.com.
tutorials are better way better there arent aany onj archtectural 3d s max bulinds which is what im studying you can find this stuff yourself
@ dark cloud your talking rubbish
cool 3d stuff ill here though but need more screencasts and tuts
The network is called tutsplus for a reason.. keyword is TUTS.. otherwise it would be called interviewsplus.com
Whoa! This is a lovely collection…Very inspiring!
The Last two pictures are scary though….
First to comment
Why do you even bother with the “first to comment” stuff? Then this wouldn’t have happened to you…
Wow Great images….. cO.Ol
wow some of them looks soo real
These are truly inspiring artworks. I just which someday I would as good as them.
Great article!
Amazing and Inspiring list of artists and works
Awesome collection.
*some of the links bring up blank pages. This might be my connection at work. It’s a bit shoty. Can anyone else verify this?
Yeah, a lot of blanks for me too. Amazing stuff though.
Can you give some specific examples please? I’ve been through this entire thread and I can’t find a single broken link.
Indeed, very nice collection.
Thanks for sharing
Becoming quite the Blender fan. Thanks for these!
Well, what can i say. A long way awaits me till ill be able to produce these… Wonderful collection.
Wow
no Marek Denko ? when i think 3d i think marek denko
Hahah… i saw a similar post like this by insic about a month ago at insicdesigns.com Boy i swear that girl is a trendsetter!
its artists like these that make me want to quit right now
I hear you…..
thanks for taking the time to suss these out Topher.
tutorials might be good
There’s a page on the site…it’s called ‘tutorials’…just a hunch, but I bet you can probably find some there.
Twitter users in the year 2025 Awesome creations !!
Wow, very inspiring work. The 17yo has a big future!
awesome collection..!!!
Absolutely awesome!
Really breathtaking images. These are the kind of images which lets me speechless… speechless…
OMG!!! Amazing post! The Wounded Elf is unbelieveable *.*
Someday i’ll send you my creations, let me practice some more =D
Congratulations!
WOW! This is a awesome collection. Get to see what I should shoot for. Thanks.
Wow! Some of those are super realistic! Thanks Topher.
create post, thanks for sharing.
Anyone interested in becoming a CG artist should checkout Gnomon in Los Angeles.
Lovely collection.
OH
MY
GOD
:O
/%$#”$&&%$ REALLY GOOODDDDD
Great collection of CGSociety galleries!
Makes me wanna stop doing web design stuff and starting 3D renderings again…
i like #23 american beauty lmao
Let’s see some tutorials on how to make these!
There are tutorials for Rebecca Puebla and Simon Blanc’s work in this month’s 3Dartist magazine.
I have learned many things from visiting the tuts websites. The CGTUTS is also great.
When it comes to what kind of information should be posted on this website. I think there should be mixtures of all the things that makes up this whole field.
Every one is not thirsty for the same type of information. As a beginner artists you might be in the “how” of the softwares and as an intermediate artists you might be interested in the “how” of the industry.
So when there are interviews, tutorials and inspirational stuff everyone get what they want. One thing I like to mention is don’t underestimate the usefulness of the information that are found in the interview. I am a beginner (learning basic of maya) I don’t usaully read the whole interview, just skip to the tips and tricks part. They are really handfulls because these tips and tricks come from years of experience.
Wow, these are all amazing, I can not believe how close to real they are getting with CG?!!
The work by Viki Yeo is seriously jaw dropping.
First timer here.
Another great blog from TUTSPLUS
A Very good post… Keep up the good work.
Great job ….fantasic
I don’t mind this kind of post but in the intro it says “50 of the most stunning pieces of CG artwork in the world” – i don’t think that the images selected are in par with this statement. the subject matter should also have been more diversified and not dominated by character work.
just my humble opinion.
i agree with you 100%
Its far from the most stunning work i’ve seen, and like you said heavy character dominated.
It’s the first time I see these awesome images.
ok im speechless ..
they are totally good and awesome….
*attempts to peel jaw off floor*
They are so different and in the same time very good!
Some of them look so real
Good work!
wow , i dont have to look around in some cg sites , thanks.
Art incubated into computers… that’s what I call bionic life.
Amazing images, all of them.
.C.
I like this images very much! The Evil Witch is my favorite !
Sick list. Some really good ones in there.
Amaaazing !!!
The MAGIC of MAYA !!!!