14. Lighting, Compositing, and Rendering
Welcome to the final stage of the project! In this chapter, you light your scene to match the real footage, learn how to set everything up so that you can composite your scene with nodes, and launch the final render. Node compositing can be a little tricky to understand when you see it for the first time, but when you finish compositing a few scenes with nodes, you’ll like it a lot. Compositing is an important, decisive part of the process, because during compositing, you tweak your scene and take it from a raw render to a nice-looking final render. You can retouch colors, add effects, mix elements, and do anything else you want.
Lighting Your Scene
The first step, whether you’re using Blender Render or ...
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