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What I'm trying to do in Blender is a blur effect in a way that, whenever something is not behind the crystal of the glasses, it should be blurred. That means, the sentence "Saw you there" should be clearly defined meanwhile "And I thought" should be blurred. Any ideas?

Thank you!

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  • $\begingroup$ I need to clarify that it is an animation: "Saw you there" comes from the bottom of the scene and stays behind the crystal. The same with "And I though" but it comes from the top of the scene $\endgroup$ – Jose Bellido May 15 '18 at 21:38
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    $\begingroup$ This does not answer your question really but could you render out a "everything blurry" render and another "everything clear" and composite the two videos with a mask of some sort? I am sure this could be done in Blender without compositing but you will have to wait till someone who knows the math nodes better than me to help there. $\endgroup$ – icYou520 May 15 '18 at 21:49
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    $\begingroup$ Sounds like the work for postprocessing in the compositor $\endgroup$ – Duarte Farrajota Ramos♦ May 15 '18 at 22:09
  • $\begingroup$ I know a way to achieve what you want through object masks and the compositor, but I'll have to post my solution later on in the day. $\endgroup$ – masterj2001 May 16 '18 at 0:00
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Set the lenses object pass index to a value of 1 Lens

Then under the layers panel use the passes dropdown and enable Object Index

Object Index

Render that out and then head over to the compositor. Create a node setup as illustrated by the image below: Compositor

As you can see by this render, I believe it resolves your problem. Final

Hope this helps.

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Put a refraction shader on a plane everywhere exept the glasses' lenses.

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