Renderpeople GmbH

Renderpeople GmbH is a digital asset creation and photogrammetry technology company based in Cologne, Germany. It produces photorealistic scanned human models for architectural visualization, film and visual effects, games, advertising, and virtual and augmented reality. Its work also supports synthetic datasets and human simulation assets for artificial intelligence and automotive applications.

Founded in 2013, the business launched commercially under the Renderpeople banner in May 2015. Its development has centered on making scanned human characters available as reusable digital assets, combining human capture with in-house modeling, texturing, rigging and animation work.

Human assets for different production needs

The company's library includes static Posed People and Posed People Plus, alongside Rigged People, Animated People and volumetric 4D People. These formats provide options ranging from still human figures to controllable characters and moving three-dimensional human footage. The library contains more than 4,500 individual human models.

Renderpeople's production capabilities include full-body and facial photogrammetry, mesh cleanup, topology optimization, retopology, UV unwrapping and high-resolution texture creation. It also develops material setups for rendering engines including V-Ray, Corona, Arnold, Octane and Redshift. Rigging, skinning and motion capture processing extend the scanned assets into animated character workflows.

Software and workflow integration

Alongside asset licensing and distribution, Renderpeople develops tools that connect its library to customers' production software. Its extensions support asset discovery, import and management within digital content creation workflows. The company also supplies integrations for software and engines including 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, Unity and Blender.

Its customer applications span architectural scenes, commercial imagery, entertainment production and interactive environments. Beyond these established visualization uses, Renderpeople supplies diverse human assets for computer vision and synthetic training data, including pedestrian simulation for autonomous driving. This combination of scanned content, production processing and software integration makes its business relevant to both visual content creation and technical simulation workflows.