HDRIs
Textures
Models
A Poly Haven Course
Turn the real world into production-ready 3D assets
Learn the production workflow behind Poly Haven's world-class scans.
Join us on location in an abandoned factory and follow every step, from capture to a finished Blender environment.
- 6 chapters
- 62 lessons
- 7.8 hours
- CC0 project files
Not just another intro photogrammetry tutorial
Most courses teach you a button: "Here's how RealityScan works, here's how to photograph a rock." This one teaches the decisions: which surfaces are worth capturing, which techniques to use and when.
It's the full production pipeline we use to make the assets you already download from Poly Haven, start to finish, on one real project.
By the end you won't just know the tools - you'll know exactly what to do when you arrive on location with a camera.
From an empty lot to a finished scene
One continuous project in six stages. Learn a repeatable system, not a bag of tricks.
Chapter 1The fundamentals
Learn what makes a great scan
Understand what photoscanning really captures: real surface detail, not just colour. Learn why scanned materials look more believable than traditional textures or generated normals, and how photogrammetry fits into a modern 3D workflow.
Chapter 2Scout and capture
Learn to see the world like a scanning artist
A good scan starts long before the shutter clicks. Learn the gear, camera settings, lighting techniques, then develop the instinct to recognise which surfaces to capture and which are better left behind.
Chapter 3Create materials
Turn real surfaces into production-ready materials
Capture textures on location, develop the RAW files with accurate colour, then process them into seamless PBR materials complete with roughness, normal, displacement and ambient occlusion maps.
Chapter 4Environment art
Build a believable environment
Bring your scans to life inside Blender. Create materials, add displacement, blend surfaces together, weather the environment, decorate, and light the scene until it feels like a real place instead of a collection of assets.
Chapter 5Scan objects
Turn everyday objects into game-ready assets
Learn the complete object scanning workflow using rocks, planks, barrels and more. Process them through RealityScan, retopology, UV mapping, baking and cleanup to create production-ready models.
Chapter 6Finish the scene
Bring everything together
Finish the environment using your own scans alongside the free Poly Haven library. Scatter vegetation, place props, add atmosphere and learn how individual assets become a convincing, finished scene.
A workflow refined over hundreds of scans
From tileable materials to complex 3D models, every project follows the same production pipeline.
Learn the repeatable workflow behind the assets published on Poly Haven, then apply it to your own work.
More than just video lessons
A complete project
Build a fully dressed Blender environment using your own scans alongside free assets from the Poly Haven library.
62 lessons · 7.8 hours
Six structured chapters covering the complete production workflow, with English captions on every lesson.
Every project file
Download the RAW photos, Blender scenes, finished textures and scanned models used throughout the course.
Learn together
Join our Discord community to ask questions, share your work and get feedback from the Poly Haven team and other artists.
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At Poly Haven we make free high quality 3D assets for everyone. This course is one of the ways we fund that.
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$39 once-off
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- All project files included
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This is a paid course, for now.
Every asset on Poly Haven is free, and always will be, but making them costs a lot.
Selling this course helps fund our work, the same way our Blender add-on does.
(which you also get if you purchase the course through Patreon!)
We don't want to keep it behind a paywall forever.
Once we reach 4,800 Patreon supporters, we'll release the entire course free to everyone. Join us, get the course, all the other Patreon perks, and help get there sooner.
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The full curriculum
Made by humans at Poly Haven
For over 10 years, we've been capturing and publishing free HDRIs, textures, and 3D models used by millions of artists around the world.
This course teaches the same production workflow we use ourselves - built on real photography, practical experience and years of refinements, not generative AI.
Every purchase helps fund more free assets for everyone. As always, you can read our public finance reports to see where your money goes.
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