How do you best achieve the early 3D/CG aesthetic? Kinda like this and the box art for Donkey Kong Country

How do you best achieve the early 3D/CG aesthetic? Kinda like this and the box art for Donkey Kong Country.
Is it the kinda low res texture and the lighting? I've never don't art work so that's just a guess

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MARIO IF HE STEEL

You might be able to recreate that render in a game engine, use Blender to create the geometry and Substance Painter to create the materials for said geometry.

Perhaps use rasterized lighting without baking, use an emissive texture for the fire and put a sphere with a volumetric fog shader for the "glow", screen space reflections for the floor, and a cubemap for Mario's reflection.

What did the nerd on a Silicon Graphics machine in the 90s do to make it?

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Generally low poly, but with generous amounts of subdivision when it comes to rounded edges. Absolutely no texture blending of any sort. Note how you can count like five or six textures in that image, max. Normals are used ONLY to add clay-like grooves to fur/hair or pockmarks to tile surfaces; no additional detail.

Absolutely no volumetric fog. You can have raytraced reflections, but if you add shit like godrays your shaders have become too advanced.

Thank you anons

90s 3D renders have a few common traits that give them that look:
>Simple lighting - usually only a small number of spotlights in a scene with no ambient occlusion or anything like that
>Ugly procedural textures slapped onto walls and floors
>Liberal use of crude bump maps

And in general, there was an overall 'simplicity' to everything, compared to the detail-rich hyper realism of modern renders.

Holy shit there's only 9 textures in the OP picture

SOVL

90s cgi was dope. I would have loved to play a game like this.

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