Animating with Blender

Color Correction and More Post Effects

Before we begin creating new scenes for each shot and adding Scene strips to the Sequencer, we should finish the basic composite network for the first shot. We will add controls for color correction and any other postprocessing effects that we would like to control on a shot-per-shot level. In The Beast, a glow was added to each shot. While this glow could have been added in the composite setup during the initial render, effects like this are destructive. Even though they enhance things visually, they irretrievably change the information that was contained in the raw render. If you added effects during the render stage and later changed your mind or saw that the effects did not work well from shot to shot, ...