After Effects Depth of Field

This is today's project. A project in adding Depth of Field in post with After Effects rather than during a render pass.

The purpose being to decide if it is quicker to render DoF in post.

The scene was modeled in Maya, one image rendered out, then the Camera Z-Depth was rendered, comped in After Effects and took about 10 mis to render from there. All up about 15 mins render for 5 sec of footage and complete control over the Depth of Field.

Tutorials!

Maya Z-Depth Tutorial here, (starts at step 44, don't bother with the Ambient Occlusion, this guy does it the reeeeallly long way around. Otherwise a good tute)
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-maya/achieving-realism-and-depth-us...

After Effects use of the then created Z-Depth is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbnygzmY6A

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maya
• After
• Effects
• Mental
• Ray
• Depth
• of
• Field
• Compositing

[paules357]

tutorial?

[spagettimanAUS]

@paules357

Hi,

I've updated the description with links to tutorials.

Best of luck,

Cheers!

[paules357]

@spagettimanAUS THX