Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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UPDATE 2023: There's a new version of this tutorial remade for Blender 4.0: youtube.com/watch?v=B0J27sf9N1Y&list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&index=1

Blender tutorial on understanding all the render settings of Cycles and Eevee. We'll discuss samples, noise thresholds, the biggest time speed up (SSS OFF!), motion blur, DoF (depth of field), and Eevee render settings.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:49 Cycles Rendering: Samples
05:25 Noise Threshold
10:31 Subsurface Scattering: OFF
12:46 Motion blur
13:38 Depth of field
15:28 Persistent Data
16:18 Hardware Device
17:10 Light Paths
19:53 Eevee Rendering Setup
22:25 Contact shadows
25:00 Screenspace reflections
25:30 Ambient Occlusion
26:54 Eevee samples
27:53 Final render settings

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