Post details: Lens Effect

Lens Effect

Tips & Tricks, Textures - by:
May 5th, 2006

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.

paint-effect

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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.

setup

You can also add an image to the transparency channel to get weird effects like this.

painteffect

This one is done with Cell noise;
paint-effect-box
VL Noise;
vl
Sema;
sema
Hama;
hama
Electric;
electric
and so on

Enjoy!

19 response(s) to Lens Effect

  1. Gordon Stewart [Visitor] says:

    Are you using 9.6 to animate the noise? I'm not getting anything near this effect.

  2. base80 [Member] says:

    It works in R8.0

  3. Athlon [Visitor] says:

    very nice
    last one is the best ;)

  4. Gordon Stewart [Visitor] says:

    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.

  5. Kutkin [Visitor] @ http://sweb.cz/animos_pc says:

    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

  6. base80 [Member] says:

    the refraction is necessary to make this working.

  7. Matt Peacock [Visitor] @ http://anonymous1.com says:

    Great tip! It works great in other 3d apps as well. (Carrara 5 Pro)

  8. Vincent [Visitor] @ http://www.wipix.fr says:

    Great job my friend !


    Since that you left fc4d family, you made me very unhappy ...
    So, come on master ... We need you !!!

  9. nauble [Visitor] says:

    GREAT Tip once again. Great tool to play around with THANKS MAN!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!

  10. 3dCody [Visitor] says:

    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 :-)

  11. base80 [Member] says:

    do you mean this http://www.base80.com/index.php/2006/01/25/make_an_even_background_c4d_basics

  12. 3DCody [Visitor] says:

    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 :-)

  13. Dragan [Visitor] says:

    Good tip, may i am wrong but couldn´t you use this technique for lenses. For example distortion or fisheys?!

    Many thanks

  14. base80 [Member] says:

    I think you could use this to do lens distortions

  15. Vincent [Visitor] @ http://www.wipix.fr says:

    Excellent !!!!

  16. c4dcafeuser42 [Visitor] says:

    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

  17. c4dcafeuser42 [Visitor] says:

    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.

  18. Candy [Visitor] says:

    Which texture did u use to make an alectric efect?? A don't have any "Electric" in Noise textures.

  19. base80 [Member] says:

    Electric is part of C4D R.9

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