Learn step-by-step procedures for replicating and simulating common lens effects—with any VFX software.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introduction and overview
- What causes depth of field?
- How to simulate depth of field
- Creating bokeh effects
- Matching a soft focus
- Adding a vignette
- Creating anamorphic vignettes
- Adding spherical aberration
- Simulating astigmatism
- The causes of chromatic aberration
- Simulating chromatic aberration
- Adding filter flares
- Creating diffraction glows
- Simulating veiling glares
- The right look and behavior for lens flares
- The proper math for adding lens flares
- Proper layering order
Taught by
Chad Perkins
