$npx -y skills add arjun988/blender-skills --skill compositingBlender compositor workflows for beauty stacks, render passes, color grade, glare, and delivery outputs via MCP.
| 1 | # Compositing |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Pass-aware beauty stack. Subtle grade. Delivery-ready outputs. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ## When to Use |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - Final beauty composites from Cycles/Eevee |
| 8 | - Grade, glare, vignette, chromatic subtlety |
| 9 | - Pass recombination (diffuse, glossy, volume, cryptomatte) |
| 10 | - Shot delivery plates |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ## Workflow |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ``` |
| 15 | Enable passes → Render multilayer EXR (or needed passes) |
| 16 | → Compositor graph → Grade → FX (glare/fog glow) |
| 17 | → Output viewer + File Output → Validate exposure |
| 18 | ``` |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ## Recommended Passes |
| 21 | |
| 22 | | Pass | Use | |
| 23 | |------|-----| |
| 24 | | Beauty / Combined | Base | |
| 25 | | DiffCol / DiffDir / DiffInd | Relight flexibility | |
| 26 | | GlossDir / GlossCol | Spec control | |
| 27 | | Volume | Smoke/fire isolation | |
| 28 | | Cryptomatte Object/Material | Isolations | |
| 29 | | Mist | Depth grade / fog | |
| 30 | |
| 31 | ## Beauty Stack (Default) |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ``` |
| 34 | Combined |
| 35 | → Exposure / Color Balance (AgX-aware) |
| 36 | → Glare (fog glow / streaks sparingly) |
| 37 | → Lens distortion (subtle) |
| 38 | → Vignette (subtle) |
| 39 | → Output |
| 40 | ``` |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ## Grade Rules |
| 43 | |
| 44 | 1. Fix exposure before creative grade |
| 45 | 2. Prefer lift/gamma/gain or color balance over crushed curves |
| 46 | 3. Keep skin/product hues plausible |
| 47 | 4. Match reference stills with side-by-side |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ## Outputs |
| 50 | |
| 51 | - `OUT_Beauty_[Shot]` |
| 52 | - Optional: `OUT_Alpha`, `OUT_CryptoID` |
| 53 | - Prefer EXR for archival; PNG/JPEG for review |
| 54 | |
| 55 | ## Constraints |
| 56 | |
| 57 | ### MUST DO |
| 58 | - Grade on view transform–aware pipeline (AgX) |
| 59 | - Keep creative FX reversible in node graph |
| 60 | - Document exposure/look settings |
| 61 | |
| 62 | ### MUST NOT DO |
| 63 | - Crush blacks to hide lighting problems |
| 64 | - Over-glare every bright pixel |
| 65 | - Flatten multilayer to JPEG as only archive |
| 66 | |
| 67 | ## Reference Guide |
| 68 | |
| 69 | | Topic | Reference | Load When | |
| 70 | |-------|-----------|----------| |
| 71 | | Pass Stack | `references/pass-stack.md` | When needed | |
| 72 | | Grade Presets | `references/grade-presets.md` | When needed | |
| 73 | | Delivery Outputs | `references/delivery-outputs.md` | When needed | |