Blender Rendering Workflow

Treat a render as a reproducible deliverable, not a screenshot that happened to look acceptable once.

Establish the render contract

Before changing the scene, record:

• the intended audience, view distance, reference mood, and required story beat;
• still, turntable, image sequence, or video deliverable; resolution, frame range, frame rate, and output format;
• render engine, device assumptions, time/noise budget, and whether the result must match an engine or compositor downstream;
• required cameras, hero and diagnostic views, render passes, alpha, and color management requirements;
• which lights, world, materials, volumes, and compositor nodes are part of the authored result.