Chapter 10: Rendering Sculptures for Your Portfolio

We've worked hard to learn many interesting sculpting tools, tips, and techniques, and now we've got some awesome sculptures to show off in our portfolios! But before we upload any images of our artwork for the world to see, we should make sure that our sculptures can be seen in the best light – literally! We should add lights to the scene and set up materials for the sculptures so that they look amazing! Once we have our lights in place, we can render the artwork.

Rendering is what our computers do to calculate the appearance of 3D objects in the scene. Rendering can be done with varying quality, depending on our needs. Technically, our computers are always rendering our sculptures into the 3D Viewport. Viewport rendering is usually done with relatively low-quality settings so that our computers' processing power can be dedicated to the sculpting tools instead of the rendering process.

We learned a little...