


When you see a character hanging onto the edge of a building by one hand, their feet dangling 200 feet above a busy New York street, Hollywood magic is used to create that shot. Compositing is most often used in the world of visual effects (VFX). Oversimplified, any time you stack up images or videos to make a new image you are compositing. Each vertical slice of this image shows a different KeyShot render pass What is compositing? So, a render pass is an image that, when combined with other render passes add up to the final output of the rendered image sometimes called an rgb or beauty pass. Render passes actually make available to you the results of each of these calculations as individual images. The software compiles the results of these calculations to serve you with a complete image. When you create a rendering, lots of different calculations take place. Download Project Files For This Tutorial What are render passes?
