What does the term "bake" mean?

I hear people talk about baking a scene, animation, model(?), etc.

Any different versions of "bake" is acceptable to me (if there are different versions ...

I've got a problem with flickering lights in an animation I rendered. I'm using one directional light to light up my scene with depth map shadows on and no light linking to the objects. When I...

What about if you want to have two hands holding the same object like a rifle or a sword?

My first completed face! I've been working on/off Maya for awhile
never really finishing anything. Most of the time was spent learn'in it.
Thanks to Darkware for lett'in me know about the Depth...

Thanks, Darkware!
Waaha!:D

Got a lighting problem.
I used a point light to light up a face I made. The problem is the light is passing throught the inside of the face to the other side.
The inside of the mouth and right...