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I have set up a camera projection of a street with buildings. Problem is the photo is way too grainy and my CG car looks too clean. So I need to match the grain on the car to the photo I'm using for the camera projection. I have added film grain using a downloaded overlay before to CG scenes. But now I need to add only to the CG car and possibly its shadow and not the whole scene. How would I do that in Blender? In the compositor? I could easily do that in Fusion, but that would mean rendering different passes from Blender and adding to the render time too. If I can output it directly and finished from Blender, it would be better.

I have tried following some tutorials where they use the Compositing tab, but they are all focused on adding grain to the whole render/scene. I see that my only input option for the Render Layer node in the compositor is Scene. I can’t choose the car there, which I had thought would be the way. But I only need to add grain to the car and possibly its shadow, which is done via a shadow catcher.

I'm totally new to the compositing tab. Have some basic experience with the shading tab.

Thanks for the help.

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This could be done using ID masks inside Compositor Related video on youtube Id Masks (tho it's old I'll add a couple of screenshots where specific settings are located)

Compositor setup: Use color socket in the mix node to plug in your grain

Enable object index and material index before Rendering inside Propertied Tab > View Layer > Passes > Data
Here

Configure the pass index for each object
Here

Or for material if you want
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Now, inside the compositor, under your id mask, configure the index you specified for material or object

Index MA - material pass index, OB - object

And another note: you will need to rerender in order to use new configurations

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