Re: Depth of Field

["adrian" <adrian.wyer(at)fluid-pictures.com>]

i find the lens blur filter in afterfx combined with a depth map (not zpic) 
gives pretty good results most of the time
nice and crisp, with bokeh effects to boot....

a

Adrian Wyer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sofronis Efstathiou" <SEfstathiou(at)bournemouth.ac.uk>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:16 AM
Subject: RE: Depth of Field


> Cheers,
>
> Thanks for the BA and Aftereffects ideas, I've downloaded BA shaders and 
> played about with it quickly last night (late).  Ideally I'm looking for a 
> quite a clean, smooth and fast effect, it seems that the BA shader still 
> requires high rendering times to get that clean crip DoF effect I was 
> after, that may just be the perils of DoF rendering though...so I should 
> get used to it.  I really love that bokeh effect that X-DoF promises, I'd 
> have no idea how to create that in XSI with either of the Lens shaders. 
> As Leoung mentioned, X-DoF 3 by Evasion isn't avaialble for XSI 6+, so 
> thats a little disappointing....
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Alan Fregtman
> Sent: Tue 19/02/2008 05:31
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Depth of Field
>
>
>
> I know it's not free, but some aftereffects plugin like Lenscare I
> find much better, since you can control it in post.
>
> Also, instead of using the depth pass preset, just enable the Depth
> framebuffer. It seems to look better.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   -- Alan
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2008 5:27 PM, Stephen Davidson <Magic_FX(at)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > try the BA_DOF shader frome here:
> > http://www.binaryalchemy.de/index_dev.htm
> >
> > It has a nice feature that lets you focus on an object
> > by picking the object name.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >     Steve Davidson
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Of
> > Sofronis Efstathiou
> > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:42 PM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Depth of Field
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > After rattling around XSI Depth of Field shaders, which to be fair, are
> > pretty bad, I  was looking at other alternatives for the students here to
> > use on their projects.  I'll be introducing how to use zpics and the DoF
> > node in the XSI Compositor tomorrow, but I was wondering if any of you 
> > have
> > come across other alternatives?  Has anyone used X-Dof 3.0 with XSI 6.5? 
> > it
> > looks great, hopefully I may be able to acquire a few licenses (if they 
> > do
> > educational Pricing), but I have no prior experience of using it.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Saf
> >
> >
> >
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