I hear the term “rendering” thrown around in both traditional and digital art communities like it’s some sort of buzzword, but I’ve never gotten a clear explanation as to what it means.
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Rendering is simply producing an image. An artist can render your dog on paper with graphite by hand. You might call it drawing. But a skilled professional is likely to prefer ‘render’ over ‘drawing’.
Another artist might have different skills and tools. With the skills of a sculptor or modeller and an animator a computer or group of computers (render farm) can produce/render an image or video (a series of images).
You could say my kid rendered the death of Caesar in a diorama for school. You would be lying because I don’t have kids but you could say that.
Lots of artists and lots of computers have rendered images and video without realism or 3D looking shadows or shading.
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