What is rendering with respect to animation? Why is it important to keep in mind the rendering process in video games?

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If you don't use rendering it can make an image seem flat and an example of that is this; you see a character walking in the woods and you see a tree go across the screen but using rendering it look like the background and the character doesn't look like its going through it but past it.

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