<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cast &amp; Render — Journal</title><description>Cast &amp; Render is a 3D object studio. Six kinds of mesh, one render farm, and a queue that starts before the sun does.</description><link>https://castandrender.example/</link><language>en</language><item><title>All-intra, and why our hero scrubs instead of plays</title><link>https://castandrender.example/blog/all-intra-and-the-scroll-scrub/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://castandrender.example/blog/all-intra-and-the-scroll-scrub/</guid><description>Every frame a keyframe costs eight times the bytes and buys you the one thing a scroll-scrubbed hero needs: an instant, exact seek.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>motion</category><category>pipeline</category><category>web</category></item><item><title>Topology before beauty</title><link>https://castandrender.example/blog/topology-before-beauty/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://castandrender.example/blog/topology-before-beauty/</guid><description>A mesh that renders once only has to survive one render. A mesh that ships has to survive three agencies, a rebrand, and whoever opens it in 2029.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>modelling</category><category>process</category></item><item><title>Why the studio opens at four</title><link>https://castandrender.example/blog/exports-at-four/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://castandrender.example/blog/exports-at-four/</guid><description>The farm is quiet, the licences are free, and a frame that fails at 4am can be fixed twice before a client is awake.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>studio</category><category>process</category></item><item><title>A shader is a promise about daylight</title><link>https://castandrender.example/blog/a-shader-is-a-promise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://castandrender.example/blog/a-shader-is-a-promise/</guid><description>Matte has to read as matte on a phone at noon. If it only works in the dark room where it was signed off, it is not finished.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>look-dev</category><category>colour</category></item></channel></rss>