The lighting definitely helps. I've been playing around with Daz3D Studio recently and there are a few tricks I've found to make renders look more realistic.

The lighting definitely helps. I've been playing around with Daz3D Studio recently and there are a few tricks I've found to make renders look more realistic. I'm sure this is all basic knowledge for people who are more experienced, but HDRI lighting, adjusting depth of field to approximate how it would look through a "real" camera, and some of the tone mapping/curves adjustments you'd use in traditional photography or video color grading go a long way.