Hey Everyone, First, thank you to Tim E. for inviting me. I'm creating an educational engineering YouTube channel, Branch Education [950k subs currently] and I'm working on a series of videos that explore computer architecture. Everything is 3D animated with an attempt to be as photorealistic as possible, and I'm trying to get reference images to model a more-accurate representation of a nanoscopic 3D view inside an IC. Here are some previous attempts to show the building of the transistors and then the metal layers on top from this video . If anyone has any reference images to help to create these 3D visuals it would be greatly appreciated. I've found many through hours of research, but none really show a full FEOL and BEOL together.

What are you trying to show exactly? It's possible to take the gds from the pdks or a full chip and export it to blender where you can do whatever you want to it. They can look very messy though if you try to visualize everything

Essentially yes. Ideally to create images like this:

See if this helps: https://github.com/mbalestrini/sky130_blender_renders_tutorial

I believe @proppy has done some work with visualizations as well

@Maximo Balestrini is the expert on that matter ;)

If you are familiar with blender follow the first part of the instructions here to get STLs from the GDS: https://github.com/mbalestrini/sky130_blender_renders_tutorial

Thanks Maximo, yeah!! Your work is exactly the visuals that I'm looking to use in my videos.