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Taking Blender to the Next Level
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In this chapter, we're going to focus on compositing. Compositing is the process of combining different parts of your render into one final image or video. Compositing is extremely powerful because it gives you the ability to make adjustments to these different layers of your render without re-rendering the full image, which can save a lot of time. For instance, you can add image effects—such as color grading, hue and saturation, blur, and much more—to a certain object in your scene, such as a character or prop. You can even adjust the look of individual shadows.
In this chapter, we're going to composite our alien character with its walk-cycle animation from Chapter 8, Rigging and Animating Your 3D Cartoon Character, into the live-action scene that we tracked in Chapter 12, Matching Blender's Camera Movement to Live Action Footage.
These are the main topics we'll...