A Blender rendering guide for producing images with Cycles or Eevee, Blender's two rendering systems. It covers cameras, lighting-related settings, image quality, render layers, colour handling, and optimisation.

Use it for portfolio and cinematic renders, real-time previews, compositing layers, turntable previews, and checking whether an asset's visual style is working.

It helps choose suitable render settings and check how a scene will look before producing the final images.

rendering — Skill for Claude Code by arjun988/blender-skills

About the project

Blender Skills is a collection of 94 specialized skills that direct coding agents to perform Blender tasks across modeling, production, technical art, and export workflows. It is for Blender artists and users of Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, and Codex, with execution through Blender MCP. The catalogue entries provide the skills, instruction, MCP integration, and plugin used in that agent-driven workflow.

arjun988/blender-skills · 2,220 stars · on GitHub · blender-skills.vercel.app

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add arjun988/blender-skills --skill rendering

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arjun988/blender-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blender-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 94 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,131 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00042	$0.01131
Opus 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00452
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00226
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00113

Measured yesterday against content hash abf41a30b17a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rendering scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/rendering/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rendering

Appropriate engine selection. Optimized settings. Production render passes.

When to Use

Final portfolio/cinematic renders
Look development validation
Render pass output for compositing
Game asset preview renders (Turntable)
Style validation (realistic vs stylized)

Engine Selection

Engine	Use When
Cycles	Final quality, realistic, portfolio
Eevee	Real-time preview, stylized, game look dev
Eevee Next	Improved real-time quality (Blender 4+)

Workflow

Camera Setup → Render Settings → Sample Tests → Full Render
    → Pass Output → Color Management → Delivery

Camera Setup

Naming: CAM_[Shot]_[Number]

Focal length: 35mm (environment), 85mm (hero detail), 24mm (wide horror)
Depth of field: subject distance focused
Composition: rule of thirds; leading lines
Turntable: empty parent rotating 360° for asset preview

Cycles Settings

Setting	Preview	Production
Samples	64–128	512–2048
Denoise	OpenImageDenoise	OpenImageDenoise
Max bounces	8	12
Caustics	Off (default)	On if glass/water hero

Eevee Settings

Setting	Value
Screen Space Reflections	On for metals
Ambient Occlusion	On
Bloom	Stylized/ emissive scenes
Shadow resolution	2048+
Contact Shadows	Ground contact

Render Passes

Pass	Use
Combined	Final composite
Diffuse Direct/Indirect	Relighting
Glossy	Reflection control
Normal	Compositing effects
AO	Contact shadow enhancement
Z (Depth)	DOF, fog in comp
Cryptomatte	Object masking
Emission	Screen glow effects

Color Management

View Transform: AgX (Blender 4+) or Filmic
Look: Medium Contrast (default) or High Contrast (dramatic)
Exposure: Adjust in compositor, not by blowing lights

Render Optimization

Use render region for test crops
Adaptive sampling (Cycles)
Disable unseen objects in render layers
GPU rendering default when available
Persistent data for animation sequences

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday First seen · 155 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A abf41a30b17a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rendering is a skill published in the GitHub repository arjun988/blender-skills (2,220 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,131 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-07.

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