Gurmukh Bhasin · Concept Artist

Well, no matter what render you do, if you're doing animation or if you're doing still images, still images definitely take into Photoshop and take them to the next level. Images straight from render are usually a little flat and lifeless, but if you do a couple tweaks in Photoshop, you can bring them to life. And then for animations, you just use After Effects pretty similar to the way you would use Photoshop and bring your animations to life. But I think that's one thing that a lot of people don't realize when they're first starting: you have to add an extra layer of information to your renders in Photoshop. A lot of people think that your render is your final output, and no, you definitely want to add that last 10%. It really does a lot for the image.