Introducing Quick Populate
Bring Your Designs to Life with Human Context
Architectural renders capture form, material and atmosphere beautifully, but often the most difficult part is to add successfully is people.
Without them, even the most compelling design can feel static or detached from real-world use.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce Quick Populate, Gendo’s newest feature designed to seamlessly bring human activity into your architectural scenes. With Quick Populate, you can populate your designs with realistic, diverse crowds in just seconds, no external software, no tedious manual edits.
Why Quick Populate?
Until now, architects and designers had limited options when adding people to renders. Stock image overlays rarely match perspective or lighting, and manual editing can be slow and distracting. The result: visuals that fail to fully communicate how spaces will feel once occupied.
Quick Populate changes that. By combining vision-aware segmentation with structured user controls, the feature intelligently places people into your renders, while preserving the integrity of your design.
High-Level Control, Seamless Integration
Quick Populate gives you granular control over how your scene is populated, while keeping the interface lightweight and intuitive.
You can adjust:
✅ Crowd density: from sparse to dense, depending on the atmosphere you want to convey
✅ Age groups: children, adults, elderly or a blend
✅ Diversity preferences: choose the mix of gender, ethnicity, and clothing styles
✅ Optional scene styling: add detail such as “families with strollers,” “people in office attire,” or “festival-goers”
With these simple inputs, your design remains the focus, while the human context adds emotion and authenticity.
Designed for Architects
Quick Populate isn’t just about adding people, it’s about enhancing design storytelling without compromise:
Architecture first: structures, materials, and lighting are preserved without distortion
Natural placement: people are scaled correctly and positioned intelligently
Fast turnaround: crowd generation completes in a few seconds
Realism at scale: crowds blend with the original perspective and atmosphere
The result is visuals that feel both precise and alive, helping you communicate not just what you’ve designed, but how it will be experienced.
I couldn't help but laugh because the people were so well snug on the couch that I had in the render. I instantly loved it.
Aneudy Salcedo, Intercultural 3D Design
If you’ve ever wished your renders could better capture the life of your spaces, Quick Populate is built for you. By embedding people seamlessly into your designs, you’ll create visuals that resonate more deeply with clients, collaborators, and communities.
We can’t wait to see how you use Quick Populate to bring your architecture to life.
