I don't know about Cycles either. I've been out of it for 8-9 years.

Vulkan, nope. I don't even know what my current box is capable of. I already know it's cheap and superior to everything I ever used in the studios years ago.

I NEED to check out CC0. https://cc0textures.com/ Looks great.

Compositing is layering images upon images building up to the desired resultant combination image, like Photoshop layers - but in animation and visual effects production it generally implies application over time.

I can't believe how shitty all the Wikipedia articles are - and these are the best ones. It's a very simple concept to visually convey with many variations and none of these have decent examples. After Effects is essentially Photoshop utilizing more powerful layers over sequences of images over time rather than just one image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primatte_chromakey_technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_image_compositing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_After_Effects

I heard about Blender as video editor but I've never tried it. I've been too comfortable with what I know. I want to go FLOSS but haven't had the courage yet.

Gonna check out Kdenlive too.

Thanks for all the recs.