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Lens Effect
A long time ago I did a funny discovery. It totally slipped my mind until MoGraph was announced.
Here is the result, read on to discover how it is done.
Follow up:
Well actually it is quite simple.
Place a plane just in front of the camera.
Add a transparent texture with some refraction (1.5) and with a bump-map. The bump-map will make the effect, so play around with noise or textures or even images.
You can also add an image to the transparency channel to get weird effects like this.
This one is done with Cell noise;
VL Noise;
Sema;
Hama;
Electric;
and so on
Enjoy!
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Comment from: Gordon Stewart [Visitor] : 2006-05-05 @ 19:18
Are you using 9.6 to animate the noise? I'm not getting anything near this effect.
Comment from: Gordon Stewart [Visitor] : 2006-05-05 @ 19:30
I would really appreciate it if you could send me the scene file, I feel like an idiot but I just can't get this working.
Comment from: Kutkin [Visitor] · http://sweb.cz/animos_pc : 2006-05-05 @ 23:12
Hi guyz, nice trick,
like deformation maps in postproduction...
Anyway, to make it work you need to up your refraction value in transparency channel...
cheers
like deformation maps in postproduction...
Anyway, to make it work you need to up your refraction value in transparency channel...
cheers
Comment from: base80 [Member] 
: 2006-05-06 @ 04:57
: 2006-05-06 @ 04:57
the refraction is necessary to make this working.
Comment from: Matt Peacock [Visitor] · http://anonymous1.com : 2006-05-08 @ 15:00
Great tip! It works great in other 3d apps as well. (Carrara 5 Pro)
Comment from: Vincent [Visitor] · http://www.wipix.fr : 2006-05-23 @ 20:54
Great job my friend !
Since that you left fc4d family, you made me very unhappy ...
So, come on master ... We need you !!!
Since that you left fc4d family, you made me very unhappy ...
So, come on master ... We need you !!!
Comment from: nauble [Visitor] : 2006-06-03 @ 17:58
GREAT Tip once again. Great tool to play around with THANKS MAN!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!
Comment from: 3dCody [Visitor] : 2006-06-08 @ 09:00
Could you please advise me how you render out with the greay and orange look.
I am trying to achieve this but i am stumped.
Anyones help would be great.
Many Thanks
Cody :-)
I am trying to achieve this but i am stumped.
Anyones help would be great.
Many Thanks
Cody :-)
Comment from: base80 [Member] : 2006-06-08 @ 13:44
: 2006-06-08 @ 13:44
do you mean this http://www.base80.com/index.php/2006/01/25/make_an_even_background_c4d_basics
Comment from: 3DCody [Visitor] : 2006-06-10 @ 09:28
Yes that's what i meant :-)
In that tutorial, you note to write to you for a tutorial on how to change the actual color.
Could you please show us newbies how you create your .gif animation outputs....you know the ones like the piston....just how you render them out and the colors applied to the objects and how the grey background is achieved.......eg: Light setup....etc etc.
Thanks Base 80 you rock !!
Cody :-)
In that tutorial, you note to write to you for a tutorial on how to change the actual color.
Could you please show us newbies how you create your .gif animation outputs....you know the ones like the piston....just how you render them out and the colors applied to the objects and how the grey background is achieved.......eg: Light setup....etc etc.
Thanks Base 80 you rock !!
Cody :-)
Comment from: Dragan [Visitor] : 2006-08-27 @ 19:18
Good tip, may i am wrong but couldn´t you use this technique for lenses. For example distortion or fisheys?!
Many thanks
Many thanks
Comment from: base80 [Member] : 2006-08-27 @ 23:16
: 2006-08-27 @ 23:16
I think you could use this to do lens distortions
Comment from: c4dcafeuser42 [Visitor] : 2006-10-06 @ 09:53
I'm in r8.2 and am having trouble with the animation starting from the "stopped" position, no effect, and going forward to full effect.
what param(s) are you animating in this?
TIA
what param(s) are you animating in this?
TIA
Comment from: c4dcafeuser42 [Visitor] : 2006-10-10 @ 03:38
OK. i figured out my mistake. i assumed that the noise needed to be animated in its property page, but keeping the noise still (not animated) and animating the bump map strength gave me restults closer to yours.
Thanks again for sharing.
Thanks again for sharing.
Comment from: Candy [Visitor] : 2006-12-22 @ 01:33
Which texture did u use to make an alectric efect?? A don't have any "Electric" in Noise textures.
Comment from: Nick [Visitor] · http://nickmeister.deviantart.com : 2009-06-21 @ 15:29
this is a handy effect, works great to use a bumpy displacement like this over geometric objects rather than just a flat plane. For simple displacement effects I would personally use After Effects
Comment from: chat [Visitor] · http://www.chattube.net : 2009-11-14 @ 13:24
excellent job. ı want it for my site. can u do it for me .