18 Rendering Tips: Faster with Cycles

Whether through light bounces, samples, denoising or other routes: In this video, you will learn more than 18 methods for rendering faster with Cycles.

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Anyone who felt like using Blender again after the recent teaser for “Agent 327: Operation Barbershop” can watch a few rendering tips here. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the various render settings of the open-source renderer Cycles to shorten your render time. Alongside GPU use, tips on adaptive subdivision, denoising, light bounce and 14 other methods are explained.

Rendering with Cycles

In our DP issue 07 : 2015, with the thematic focus “Renderers,” we introduced Cycles as an open-source render engine and a good example of path tracing. Anyone who wants to know more about the renderer can also read the detailed documentation on all features here.

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