So, I employed the method in Daz Iray, and wouldn't you know it - IT WORKS.īasically, set up a completely black mesh that absorbs all light, cut an oval in the middle, put it in front of the camera as close as possible so that there's a black border in your camera view.

PHOTOGRAPHER 4 addon for Blender by chafouin

But hey, who needs Octane if it can be done in Iray, right?Ī while ago, by sheer accident/luck, I discovered the method by which the PHOTOGRAPHER 4 addon for Blender by chafouin uses for its bokeh effects - a physical obstruction in front of the camera to emulate the 'failings' of a lens barrel in real life. Where or not it has a bokeh setting I cannot remember. But the plugin implementation was so half-assed and anti-user, I could not be bothered to give it a honest try. (There are probably methods that doesn't have the ghosting problem, but I wasn't able to find one.) There are obvious ghosting around the subject edges, bokeh exposure needs constant babysitting and so on.Īs far as I could tell, after a rather extensive set of testing of settings as well as different post-processing methods (photoshop, blender compositor, etc), the ghosting effect while minimizable to an extent, is not avoidable with the slew of options I had.

In my case, I used a bokeh plugin in After effects, feeding the depth pass and adjusted the Aperture Ratio.Īs can be seen here, while it can be somewhat workable, the effect is nowhere near the desired look. Since there are no render settings like the Aperture Ratio in Blender (other names/settings in other render engines), that can easily turn the bokeh into an oval shape, I first tried the post processing method - using a depth pass with a post process capable of producing anamorphic bokeh. This is a detail write up on the experiments I've done and the methods with which you too can easily achieve the coveted (by select cinematography nerds like myself) 'Anamorphic Bokeh' in Daz Iray.Įver since I started my Daz3D journey (roughly a year ago), I've been trying to find a way to achieve the 'anamorphic look' with Daz Iray. Below is a copy/archive of the Deviant Art Journal I posted.

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