Compositing VRay render passes is an important subject for the purposes of both quality and flexibility in our compositing workflow. Being able to adjust colours, reflections and even individual lights in the scene long after the render is complete is not only exceptionally powerful, but also sometimes necessary for speedy turnaround on client changes. In this tutorial I’m going to get straight to point with quick yet powerful formulas for advanced render element compositing in After Effects using VRay for 3ds Max. The same principles will apply to other compositing and 3D packages as well. We’ll start off with a basic composite using only 5 passes and further on we’ll tackle an advanced method using 13 render elements.