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Add depth of field in Arnold

Add depth of field in Arnold - Maya Tutorial

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Add depth of field in Arnold

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- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at how to create depth of field in Arnold. Now depth of field is a camera effect so you will apply it to a camera. And let's go ahead and just take a look at this scene here, and I've got just a couple of objects here and they're lined up so we can get a good depth of field effect. Now if we go into Arnold, Render View, and do a quick render, by doing Run IPR, you'll see that while everything's pretty much in focus, but we can change this by going into the camera. So I'm going to go ahead into my viewport and go Select Camera, go into the Attribute Editor, and now we have our camera attributes. Now this is a reasonably long lens. It's a 75 millimeter lens, and that should enhance the effect, and you would do the same thing with a real camera. You'd probably use a longer lens. Now if we scroll down to the Arnold tab, you'll see that we have Enable Depth of Field. And then we have a number of attributes here. The first one is Focus Distance. Where in…

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