Depth of Field
What is Depth of Field (DOF)? In my opinion, camera only focuses within a specific range. See this picture. Between these three balls, camera focus in most left ball and other ball seen blurry.
How to create this effect in Autodesk Maya?
Create object like picture bellow.
Select camera1 and check Depth of field. Like my opinion about DOF, this effect depent on range between camera and object. How I know range between camera and object?
To know the range between camera and object, you must activates object details (see picture below).
After object details active, you will see this text on scene.
Now you must select the camera (this is important!!!).
After you select the camera, now select the object. You will see the distance on scene (in my scene distance between camera 1 and ball 1 is 4.3).
Distance between camera 1 and ball 2 is 12.3.
Distance between camera 1 and ball 3 is 18.3.
I want focus on ball 1, so I must set Focus Distance 4.3 and for F Stop I always do trail and error in this case I set F Stop to 7.
Focus Distance 4.3, F Stop 7.
Focus Distance 12.3, F Stop 4.
Focus Distance 18.3, F Stop 4.
aren’t there ways (expect PS or crap like that) to make the blur more ‘high quality’? now it just looks like a lump of crap…
- SDFP
Lots. Select higher quality. Go Mental Ray. Anything like that.
Thank You
hi,
i was just wondering,
is there a way to animate with depth of field?
say you want to zoom in, loose focus, but then after zoomed in:
it gets back its focus.
thx
@danny
for animate dof usually I combine between camera position, Focus Distance and F Stop.
for example(I use this tutorial and in my opinion you already understand about key framing):
1. my target is ball 3 and animate in 24 frame.
2. frame 1: set key camera position, Focus Distance and F Stop (i use condition focus on ball 1).
3. frame 24: move camera forward to ball 3 (zooming) and set key camera position, change focus distance and f stop until focus on ball 3.
That’s it. I hope this can solve your problem.
thanks alot,
my only problem is that i can’t seem to set a keyframe for focus distance or F stop. ( i press ‘S’ for set key, but i doesnt set a key for focus distance or f stop ). i think im doing something wrong here
@danny
if you want to set keyframe on f stop, right click on top of it and keyframe it not use ‘S’.
thx a million this really helped me out
some tuto’s charge 70$ For this thanx for the tip
You could render them out individually in an animation and drop them in After Effects as layers. Put a Gaussian Blur, motion blur, what have you, individually, and adjust them. Pull them forward, backward, side to side, adjust motion blur. The render time is half in most situations and you have full Control in Post.
Thank you so much for this nice and ‘easy to understand’ tutorial. Really helpful!!
Cheers!
-A
Really nice tutorial. simple and clear understanding. Thanks alot