introduction to compositing and rendering

Camera, Reflections, Transmission, Shadow

4 types of light paths (C,R,T,S)

Compositing and rendering

this are the final steps that determine the quality, realism, and visual impact

Compositing

allows artist to refine the render without needing to re-render everything, saving time and improving quality

Rendering

brings the final polish to a 3D scene by calculating lighting, materials, reflections, and shadows accurately

Adaptive sampling threshold

Noise level step to stop sampling at, lower values reduce noise at the cost of render time.

Adaptive sampling

with _ Cycles automatically reduces the number of samples in areas that have little noise

Noise threshold

with adaptive sampling it is also possible to render images with a target amount of noise

Denoising

used to remove noise and grainy artifacts