I prepared a very small tutorial that will show you how to add motion blur effect to your image rendered in Yafaray. Before we go any further I can tell you that it's best to don't use this method if you have sunlight in your scene, as far as your camera isn't moving, there everything will be blurred (f ex during an animation)

Here you can see the image rendered in YafaRay:

Pirates

(the making-of)

In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show you how, starting from this picture...

First of all, before changing DOF-Settings in the Yafaray camera-menu or the AA-settings in the rendertab-menu,
create an empty-object and position it where the focal point of your scene should be.
I think this is the best way to control the focal-point.

Positioning the Empty-Object:

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will see different possibilities to light objects in a room, a closed environment.

Which lamps to work with, the different light rigs, and effects such as reflections, caustics, Depth of Field or

volumetrics to enhance the quality of your work.

Introduction

Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion

pictures or screen display. It is the evolution into the digital realm of optical film compositing (Wikipedia)

Compositing is a very important aspect of CGI work. In a production environment, you rarely use a straight raw render.

Compositing can be helpful to speed up the rendering process and give a richer result at the end.

Introduction

A clay render is an effective solution to show a model, and especially its topology.
Every object of the scene is untextured and is defined by only one material: a warm grey matte, which remind clay.
The result is a monochromic picture.
The clay render is often used by 3D artists specialized in modeling or sculpting, with still frames or turntable animations.

INTRODUCTION

When I was trying to get deeper into YAFARAY I never really knew how exactly the settings affect the rendering. I decided to create set of example renderings to show the same scene rendered with different values for each settings. And because I did not see anything similar to this concerning YAFARAY, i decided to share it here.

First of all, before changing DOF-Settings in the Yafaray camera-menu or the AA-settings in the rendertab-menu,
create an empty-object and position it where the focal point of your scene should be.
I think this is the best way to control the focal-point.

Positioning the Empty-Object: