The final result of the tutorial
In this walk-through, I create a photorealistic environment in Blender. I leverage assets from Quixel Megascans and Graswald to create this piece and talk about some of the strategies I use to quickly design believable environments.
You can get the .blend file for the water texture here:
You will also need an HDRI that you can get for free from HDRI Skies: