What do artists mean when they talk about rendering?

Question

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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Answer 1

Exporting your final work from the software you created it in.

I doubt people who work with paints are using it in that sense. You can ‘render’ a scene as in creating a ‘rendition’ but that’s a different usage to “make computer spit out a file’.