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Depth of field and lens distortion

Depth of field and lens distortion

- [Instructor] The Redshift camera tag offers additional options for depth of field and lens distortion that aid in creating a more realistic scene for compositing CG elements into real-world footage. Let's take a look at some of these options and see how they can improve our scene. With depth of field, we already went over the basics of bokeh in the first few lessons, but we'll just touch on this real quick. So if I come to the Bokeh tab in our Redshift camera and select Override and enable it, we'll start to get some depth of field happening already. Now we do need to go ahead and focus in our focus distance of the camera. I'm going to go to our top view and zoom way out and then grab my focus distance handle and bring it back to my robot's head. If I come to our side views, I can see that plane of focus and where it's lying. That looks about right. So now we go back to our perspective view and make sure that…

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