Understanding the render settings

In this section, we will open our Compositing Blender project from Chapter 13, Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage, and configure the final render settings so that we can render or save the final animation to individual image files. Each frame of our animation will be rendered as an image file. Let's get started:

1. Open the Blender project that you saved in Chapter 13, Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage.
2. Click the Layout tab at the top of the interface to switch to the Layout workspace.
3. Click the Render Properties tab to the right of 3D Viewport to view the render settings.

Blender has two main render engines – Cycles and Eevee. We will make use of the Cycles render engine for our final render as Cycles is Blender's unbiased, realistic render engine.

4. Under the Render Properties panel, set Render Engine to Cycles.
5. If you have a dedicated...