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Learning Optical Flares

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Learn step-by-step procedures for replicating and simulating common lens effects—with any VFX software.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction and overview
1. Lens Effects
  • What causes depth of field?
  • How to simulate depth of field
  • Creating bokeh effects
  • Matching a soft focus
  • Adding a vignette
  • Creating anamorphic vignettes
2. Lens Defects
  • Adding spherical aberration
  • Simulating astigmatism
  • The causes of chromatic aberration
  • Simulating chromatic aberration
3. Glows and Flares
  • Adding filter flares
  • Creating diffraction glows
  • Simulating veiling glares
  • The right look and behavior for lens flares
  • The proper math for adding lens flares
4. Layering Order
  • Proper layering order

Taught by

Chad Perkins

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