Rendering

Table of contents

1. Shortcuts
2. Settings
   1. Render Properties:
   2. Output Properties:
3. Stitching PNG sequence to video
4. Turnaround camera

Shortcuts

Settings

My settings are the following: (I have a 3060Ti)

Render Properties:

• Render Engine: Cycles (you can use Eevee but this will change other available settings).
• Device: GPU Compute if you have a better GPU than CPU.
• Sampling: increase the Render sampling if you want.
• Denoising: check Render and select OptiX if available.
• Film: Check Transparent if you need transparent backgrounds.
• Performance: Tiles: increase to 256px.
• Color Management: make sure View Transform is set to Standard.

Output Properties:

• Dimensions: Resolution X and Y: 2048 px.
• Output: File format: PNG for images, PNG or FFmpeg for animations .
  • PNG animation frames will have to be stitched back together later but if Blender crashes during rendering, you won’t lose the already rendered frames.

Stitching PNG sequence to video

• File > New > Video Editing.
• In the Sequencer, click Add > Image/Sequence.
• Select all your PNGs (press A to select all) (this step is skipped for privacy reasons in the gif below).
• On the right, open Transform and set the Scale X and Y to 1.
• Change the Dimensions to fit, and the n. of frames.
• In Output choose FFmpeg.
• Render Animation (Ctrl+F12) (you can use Eevee for this).

Turnaround camera

Using the inbuilt add-on Animation: Turnaround Camera:

• Add a camera.
• Select an object to be the focus of the camera.
• Go to N panel > Animate.
• Change the End frame (you can set it lower, somewhere between 60 and 150 for example).
• Click Turnaround.
• In Output properties, you can keep PNG or switch to FFmpeg if you don’t want to have to stitch together the PNGs afterwards.

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