In this article, we’ll see how to create an image render not with the use of external renderers but with Blender’s native internal renderer.  We’ll look at how powerful the internal renderer is and how we can achieve similar results with that of dedicated renderers from tweaking light settings until the final compositing.

Strategies for efficient preview rendering of stills and animations in Blender.

Preview rendering is an important part of your workflow and needs to be as efficient as possible. It’s important to have strategies and techniques for the earlier stages of scene development that facilitate a smoother workflow.

In this Blender tutorial, we’ll take a look at how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting. Applying a texture to a light is generally the same as applying a texture to an object. The only difference is that we’ll be projecting the texture into the scene based on the light settings.