arjun988/blender-skills

compositing

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

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How to use

  1. Copy the installation command and review the source package before installing it in your own agent environment.
  2. Check the source document for required tools, credentials and supported hosts.
  3. Describe your input and desired deliverable; review the output against the source material.
npx skills add https://github.com/arjun988/blender-skills --skill compositing

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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

PassUse
Beauty / CombinedBase
DiffCol / DiffDir / DiffIndRelight flexibility
GlossDir / GlossColSpec control
VolumeSmoke/fire isolation
Cryptomatte Object/MaterialIsolations
MistDepth grade / fog

Beauty Stack (Default)

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

Grade Rules

  1. Fix exposure before creative grade
  2. Prefer lift/gamma/gain or color balance over crushed curves
  3. Keep skin/product hues plausible
  4. 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

TopicReferenceLoad When
Pass Stackreferences/pass-stack.mdWhen needed
Grade Presetsreferences/grade-presets.mdWhen needed
Delivery Outputsreferences/delivery-outputs.mdWhen needed

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