Toolkit 2: Lighting and Rendering: Stand Ins (Proxies)

Part 1

Opening the scene and selecting the node

Exporting it as a stand in

Making sure the scene's empty after deleting the character from it

Re-importing the export as a stand in

Duplicating and positioning the stand ins to fill the shot

Running a test render to see what the stand ins actually look like

Part 2

Reopening the scene with a single stand in and changing the viewport's draw mode to 'shaded' instead of 'bounding box'

Running another test render to see what it looks like