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.
In: 37
In art, it’s in reference to ‘rendition,’ a word which means a performance or interpretation. An artist’s render is where they take the ideas and inspiration that they’re visualizing and put it to canvas through whatever medium.
In engineering, rendering is the process of displaying an image on a screen through pre-programmed instructions. Same idea as above, but instead of an artists’s imagining of what a finished piece looks like, we’re talking about the ones and zeroes that describe what the finished image is supposed to look like.
Due to their high demands for resolution and graphical fidelity, cg production studios for movies will have ‘render farms,’ similar to a crypto farm, but the computers are being used to render frames of, say, a pixar film. In video games, most modern 3D titles are rendered in real time on your machine, but pre-rendered cg animation is still used for big budget cinematic cutscenes, [Final Fantasy being the most common example.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7EVDWz3tics)
Latest Answers