Graphics Programs Reference
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make the output seem more believable than the rendered beauty pass, which is
shown as the first image in
Render Passes
.
Compositing also provides tools to grade an image to achieve extreme or fantasy
style outputs. The following screenshot illustrates different types of grades that can
be performed:
Blender's significance as a compositor
Blender is the only open source product with a range of features comparable to other
industry standard commercial or proprietary software. It provides a unique advant-
age of combining 3D and 2D stages of CG filmmaking into one complete package.
This gives tremendous control when planning and executing a CG pipeline. Auto-
mating and organizing data flow from 3D rendering to compositing can be achieved
more easily in Blender compared to other solutions, since compositing software is
separate from the 3D rendering software.
