The action of turning a scene into an end product such as an image or movie. If your question is specific to one render engine, please use its respective tag (cycles, eevee, blender-internal, etc).
Rendering is the process of converting a 3D scene into a 2D image or series of images. During rendering, the lighting, shading, materials, and textures are all applied to the faces of the models in the scene and viewed from a camera, resulting in a final image.
Render engines that are available for Blender include:
- Cycles cycles
- Eevee eevee
- Blender Internal blender-internal
- Freestyle freestyle
- Luxrender
- Radeon ProRender
- YafaRay
- Appleseed
- VRay-Blender
- Octane
- Aqsis
- Mitsuba
- POV-Ray
For questions related to the Game Engine, please use the game-engine tag instead.
The Blender Network Render Engine allows you to render a single animation on multiple computers to speed up the total render time. For questions related to the Network Render Engine, please use the network tag instead.
