Your background is grey and it’s illuminating your scene. This flattens all your shadows and gives it a cheap 3D look. With an hdri and a well place key/sun light you can have a much more believable lighting
There’s a lot of room for improvement in your lighting. An HDRI will help tremendously, but darkening your world and increasing the key lights will get you a long way already.
An hdri is an environnement High Dynamic Range Image, you can get a lighting as if your scene was happening outside. The sun in the image illuminates the scene, and the sky gives your shadow a nice blue hue.
Your background is grey and it’s illuminating your scene. This flattens all your shadows and gives it a cheap 3D look. With an hdri and a well place key/sun light you can have a much more believable lighting
Like I said, I havent noticed much difference with an hdri image But Especially in the shadow department
There’s a lot of room for improvement in your lighting. An HDRI will help tremendously, but darkening your world and increasing the key lights will get you a long way already.
Keep it up
but what does an hdri actually do? when i dont notice much of a difference when using one
An hdri is an environnement High Dynamic Range Image, you can get a lighting as if your scene was happening outside. The sun in the image illuminates the scene, and the sky gives your shadow a nice blue hue.