From the course: 3ds Max: 3D Camera Techniques for ArchViz
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Focus and depth of field - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max: 3D Camera Techniques for ArchViz
Focus and depth of field
- [Instructor] Depth of field and focus effects can crate a lot of visual interest in your scene. They blur the image as if part of it is in focus and part is out of focus, and this can also help guide your audience's eye into what's important in the scene. So here I have a basic camera setup, and the front part of this image is kind of a little busy, if we want to focus the eye on this portion, we might want to use a focus effect. So we can do that simply by working with a physical camera. So when you create cameras for focus effects, it's a good idea to create a physical camera. Now this camera here that we already have selected called Cam_interior is a physical camera, so let's just go ahead and select it. Now if we go over to the modify panel, and you'll see we have a lot of our basic and physical camera parameters. Now focus effects are essentially done in the physical camera rollout. We have two places we need to pay…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.