compositing

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Blender compositor workflows for beauty stacks, render passes, color grade, glare, and delivery outputs via MCP.

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Added on2026-10-24

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Compositing

Pass-aware beauty stack. Subtle grade. Delivery-ready outputs.

When to Use

Final beauty composites from Cycles/Eevee
Grade, glare, vignette, chromatic subtlety
Pass recombination (diffuse, glossy, volume, cryptomatte)
Shot delivery plates

Workflow

Enable passes → Render multilayer EXR (or needed passes)
  → Compositor graph → Grade → FX (glare/fog glow)
  → Output viewer + File Output → Validate exposure

Recommended Passes

Pass	Use
Beauty / Combined	Base
DiffCol / DiffDir / DiffInd	Relight flexibility
GlossDir / GlossCol	Spec control
Volume	Smoke/fire isolation
Cryptomatte Object/Material	Isolations
Mist	Depth grade / fog

Beauty Stack (Default)

Combined
  → Exposure / Color Balance (AgX-aware)
  → Glare (fog glow / streaks sparingly)
  → Lens distortion (subtle)
  → Vignette (subtle)
  → Output

Grade Rules

Fix exposure before creative grade
Prefer lift/gamma/gain or color balance over crushed curves
Keep skin/product hues plausible
Match reference stills with side-by-side

Outputs

```
OUT_Beauty_[Shot]
```
Optional:
```
OUT_Alpha
```
,
```
OUT_CryptoID
```
Prefer EXR for archival; PNG/JPEG for review

Constraints

MUST DO

Grade on view transform–aware pipeline (AgX)
Keep creative FX reversible in node graph
Document exposure/look settings

MUST NOT DO

Crush blacks to hide lighting problems
Over-glare every bright pixel
Flatten multilayer to JPEG as only archive

Reference Guide

Topic	Reference	Load When
Pass Stack	`references/pass-stack.md`	When needed
Grade Presets	`references/grade-presets.md`	When needed
Delivery Outputs	`references/delivery-outputs.md`	When needed