The Essentials and Beyond
Rendering is the way you get to show your finished scene to the world, or whoever will stop and look. Nothing is more fulfilling than seeing your creation come to life, and that’s what rendering is all about. And in this chapter, you learned how to set up and render your scenes out to files. In addition, you took a tour of raytracing and cameras.
Rendering may be the last step of the process, but you should travel the entire journey with rendering in mind, from design to models to animation to lighting.
Additional Exercises
- Try rendering different resolutions and qualities for your scene, and make note of the times each frame took so you can better evaluate what settings work best versus time involved in processing ...
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