From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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Simplify AO

Simplify AO

- [David] In this week's Blender's: Tips, Tricks and Techniques, I'm going to show you a really quick way to speed up your scenes. Now, I have to give credit where credit's due. This comes from my colleague Mike Pan. He's well known in the Blender community for making a few of the demo scenes like the car. And he also helped us out on Man in the High Castle, making some pretty awesome stuff for that show. So he shared this tip on Stack Exchange, and I thought it was awesome. And we just need to share it with everybody. So with that, thank you, Mike Pan. Now, before we begin, we're gonna need a demo scene to really demonstrate the full effects of this render tip. So I'm gonna go to blender.org, download demo dash files, and I'm gonna come down here. And I need a scene with a lot of bounce lighting, so I'm gonna go to this Class room scene by Christopher, download that, and open it inside of Blender. So let's go ahead and do that. Now once you're inside of Blender, you may see an…

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