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Open Color IO is one of the most important standards, when it comes to color and video, which appeared within the last few years. It allows you, to match videos from different cameras or CGI normal Video, which can make high-end editing and VFX easier than ever before. It can also easily transform Linear Images from 3D Software for example into sRGB Images. The only problem with this new technology is that information is rare at this point in time. Which is the reason I write this article to make it easier getting started with this technology inside of After Effects.

Converting thoughts into images within seconds is a Curse and a blessing at once. Many people lost their Jobs over the last months, and it takes the adventure out of it and makes art meaningless till a certain degree. On the other side, it makes things so much easier. In this article, I want to give you a quick overview of the tools that are available. Because even they all do the same. Some are better for specific use cases than other or just overall better.

Since Blender Version 3.2 we now have the possibility, to create Shadow Caustics which can dramatically improve scenes with a lot of Glass or water without a lot of afford or a high increase in render time. Here you have a guide to find out, on how it is done.

In this article, I want to give you some Tips at the hand to get more realistic Renderings and also explain why you should use them and what they actually do, to give you some deeper knowledge. Everything here can be applied to CG in general, but it is written specifically for Blender.