@bsky.app video test! I've had a chance to try an upcoming photorealistic Lens Sim plugin for Blender, by Håvard Dalen, and in fact I prepared an extensive review of it that will be out soon. In brief: once Lens Sim is out, photoreal #3drendering will never be the same. #b3d 🧵 1/? - ThreadSky

glebalexandrov.bsky.social • 97 days ago

@bsky.app video test! I've had a chance to try an upcoming photorealistic Lens Sim plugin for Blender,
by Håvard Dalen, and in fact I prepared an extensive review of it that will be out soon.

In brief: once Lens Sim is out, photoreal #3drendering will never be the same.

#b3d 🧵

1/?

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nathitappan.bsky.social•97 days ago

Very exciting! I'm one of those that was into filmmaking before 3D was in my world, so I always dig into all the camera settings, sensor sizes, stuff like that trying to emulate the real world cameras and lenses we love.

This looks very promising!!

myriadfold.art•97 days ago

I had extreme obsession level brainrot for all things cinematic and photography before diving in to blender. Love photorealism, so this would be a great tool to have at hand 👌

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

Oh, Myriad, then you'll be like 🤯🤯🤯 when you try it, I guarantee. It's some kind of magic, what the author did with the help of some new Cycles nodes and *crazy* math & optics knowledge.

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

Nathi, even though we've had *some* (limited) capabilities of simulating these things faithfully in Cycles, this add-on represents a huge step forward in this direction. Maybe it's possible without it, with some tinkering with the RayPortal node, but I can't even imagine what it'd take! :D

nathitappan.bsky.social•97 days ago

I can't wait to play with it when its fully published! That does sound pretty amazing

eliousent.bsky.social•96 days ago

Hype! I love lens simulation addons they also make the camera animation part of working a lot more fun to me

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•96 days ago

Oh for sure, that's a big part of the fun.

tbaumann.bsky.social•96 days ago

This looks soo good! I usually always take the time to set up the lens and lens dirt just to have some nice bokeh this would a nice upgrade. 👀

paarsec.com•96 days ago

WOW

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•96 days ago

Cool, right? 😊

sjonsjine.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yeah!!!!!

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

For whom it'll be most useful:
* If you're into high-end photorealistic rendering in #b3d
* Photographers, filmmakers and cinematographers having any interest in #3d (or even NOT having!). It'll be an amazing reference tool (it's based on the popular vintage lenses schematics like Helios 44-2)

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glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

* I've mentioned that, but will do it again: if you like the swirly bokeh of Helios 44-2 and if you're a sucker for lenses with character (vintage, soft, anamorphic etc).
Vivitar Series 1, German lenses from 1936, Kodak Petzval, Konika Minolta Hexanon and so on.

🧵 3/?

dangergoodidea.bsky.social•47 days ago

I LOVE using old lenses. The manual nature is a great change of pace.
I had a great time at Christmas playing with my lenses and hugin too. I think you'll like it of you haven't used it already.

https://hugin.sourceforge.io/

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

* If you like to experiment with the cinematic effects like smearing your #lens with Vaseline for a dreamy look or applying an extreme amount of weird distortions in #blender3d

🧵 4/?

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

I'll tell you more about all of that in the video that is coming out in a few days. Stay tuned. Håvard Dalen did an amazing job coding that commercial #b3d add-on and emulating all these vintage lenses schematics (using the new Ray Portal node btw).

🧵 5/5 Thanks for reading the thread.

glebalexandrov.bsky.social•97 days ago

p.s. All Blender scenes are ours :D

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