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Pure entry, Cycles render, 32 samples & compositor denoising in 2.90.0 beta. Golden Triangles composition, 5x8 aspect ratio. Starry night backdrop is procedural. Things I did for this that I’ve never done in Blender before: rendered & composited multiple view layers (wanted the stars to have a bit of blur without blurring Suzanne and the telescope), then used the Glare Node on the stars.
“After so much time, AlLo-1A, loaded with Earth’s and Humans’ items and data, finally arrives to FUR-4234, hoping to find not only life and science, but also good friends.”
I don’t know enough about z depth to think of that – I did consider depth-of-field which I’ve used before, but I’m not competent enough with it to fiddle with it when I’m trying to get something done quickly, and I only wanted a little bit of blur to soften the star noise. Compositor’s Blur Node is something Millani showed me last year, but unlike that time I was unwilling to blur the whole thing. I could’ve easily rendered the backdrop separately and composited in GIMP, but I thought that Blender’s Compositor had to have a way to do it, and it shouldn’t be hard to figure out. Was a bit harder to figure out than I thought it would be. And the compositing would have enough effect on the final that after doing it in another program I’d’ve marked my submission Open, I wanted to keep it Pure.
The Z Buffer/Depth Buffer is (essentially) a B&W image that holds information about how far thing are. You can render it along your main scene and use it as map/mask (between 0.0 and 1.0) to control a Blur filter (or what ever node you want) inside the compositor. Easy. — Of course there’s no right or wrong way to do art, now, you know a bit more about composition!
I’ve never used multi-layer composition, tbh… so, i have no idea (Something else to learn about :D)
A lot of what I do (outside of the Weekend Challenge) is multi-layer, but that usually means multiple transparent-world Blender renders (often of completely different scenes) that I use as clipart in Inkscape and/or to composite in GIMP. This is the first time I’ve used multiple view layers / render layers in Blender to do it all at once.
Depth of field (or the way I do it) is extremely simple, I always put at least a bit. I just check the depth of field box, choose the focus object to be the main focal point object in my scene, and then decrease the f-stop for more blur or raise it for less.
That is strange. It may show a rounded value but the real one should be used when rendering.
Do you see a difference when you lower the value even more?
