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Animating focus distance for a rack-focus effect - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Rendering in Arnold 6
Animating focus distance for a rack-focus effect
- [Narrator] In cinematography, a rack focus effect is a change in the depth-of-field focus point over time. Its purpose is to drive viewer attention from one subject to another by changing what's in focus and what's blurry. On a real-world film set, a camera operator or an assistant called a focus puller very precisely adjusts the focus ring on the camera lens while the camera is recording a take. In CGI animation, we animate the camera's Focus Distance attribute, but because of the different types of measurement involved, we need to edit the focus distance function curve in a very particular manner to achieve a natural looking result. Our rack focus animation will start with the background in focus and then shift the focus to the foreground. In the previous movie, we created a depth-of-field effect with the foreground flowers in focus. I've got the Arnold RenderView open, and the frames we rendered in the previous movie…
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