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Motion blur "results when the image being recorded changes during the recording of a single exposure, due to rapid movement or long exposure." The can be caused by either the camera or objects in the scene moving. Blender can add motion blur to animation renders by comparing the position of objects in sequential frames. Use this tag for questions about Blender's motion blur rendering option.

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Inconsistent results in rendering light tree motion blur

Currently I'm working on kinda heavy car animation project (2.2GB) I'm using motion blur, cycles, light tree, 1024 samples, denoise. (Rest default). On some frames (65/300, 21.(6)% ) there are issues ...
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Cycles Animation Render Flickering (Motion Blur Artifacts)

I need some help with removing flickering in the final animation render in Cycles when motion blur is enabled. https://youtu.be/47KbA0EvxOA Here’s what I’ve tried so far: Increasing render Max ...
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Metaball particle system not showing motion blur (Cycles blender 3.0.0)

I am making a particle system that uses a metaball as a its object instance particle and its working rather nicely. I have enabled motion blur in render properties, however, when I try to render out a ...
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Motion Blur makes smoke significatively more opaque

I have a smoke simulation already baked. When I try to render the image without motion blur, it renders normally, but when I enable motion blur, the whole scene turn into smoke. I tried everything, ...
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Motion blur rendering not capturing time-dependent shader changes

I'm encountering an issue with motion blur rendering in Blender where time-dependent shader changes are not being captured. Here are the details: Setup: I'm using Blender to render an image with ...
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motion blur not affecting certain armatured object even in motion in EEVEE (demo video attached)

I'm working on animating character rigs, but i've noticed that some rigged character won't appear to have motion blur even when it's moving. At first i thought it was a material issue, but when i ...
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Cloud rendering issue, Car is blurry and I can't figure out why

I am rendering this animation on garage farm as my m1 Mac is too slow. The animation renders fine on my computer but every time I upload it to a cloud render the car seems to disappear in a blur. I ...
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blender compositing - 2d motion blur when using a transform node?

I am attempting to use the blender compositor and am adding a post move of a camera shake to my plate/cg composite. If I were using a simple 'transform' and/or 'rotate' node within the compositor, how ...
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Eevee motion blur messing up the animation

I have a simple geo nodes explosion setup with a geo nodes system which spwans points on given mesh then with sim nodes theres is added physics for debris i just instanced some rocks on those points ...
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How to add vector blur for particles produced by Mantaflow?

I'll briefly explain my setup here: I am trying to render an animation including sand movement produced by a falling object. I have made the simulation using mantaflow as a source for the particle ...
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How can I add motion blur to a pre-rendered (existing) video clip?

I have some videos recorded at 48fps (which is to say, I'm not exporting objects modeled in Blender, so general motion blur tutorials I've found don't apply) and want to use the "inbetween" ...
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Motion blur makes whole scene completely blurred

I followed a tutorial from "Blender Made Easy" of a stormy ocean scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysCSbhXYBo&t=2s&ab_channel=BlenderMadeEasy When I render the animation, the ...
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Strange Cycles Area Light artifact when using Motion Blur in animation

I've discovered a strange Cycles artifact when using Area Lights in combination with Motion Blur in an animation. Per the attached screenshot, two astronauts are at the windows of a moving spacecraft. ...
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Random rectangles 'missing' when rendering with optix + motion blur

When I render a scene that uses motion blur with optix, there are randomly rectangles/sections where it skips straight to the background. Its random and only exists in some frames, and does not appear ...
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Alternative to motion blur for deformed objects?

The documentation for Cycles in Blender 2.79 is very explicit about deformation motion blurs: An object modifier setup that changes mesh topology over time can not render deformation motion blur ...
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Product Render RGB Lightning Setup

Does someone know how to make this RGB lightning blur on a fan in Blender? Or you suppose to do it in another software? Does it have to do something with motion blur setup? Thank you in advance:-)
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Render time increasing exponentially each frame

I’m trying to render out a complicated scene, with motion blur, depth of field, volumetrics and lot of vertices. When rendering image sequence, the render time drastically increases from frame to ...
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Why are objects which are stationary with respect to the camera motion-blurred?

Why is everything blurred? My camera is a child of the vehicle illustrated below, and is travelling at the same speed, so why is there so much motion blur on the whole vehicle, instead of just the ...
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Is there a way to include material color changes in motion blur?

In both Eevee and Cycles, changes to the material color are not rendering in the motion blur. For example, if there is a moving cube that is red on frame 1, and keyframed to transition to blue on ...
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Motion blur with vector in compositor

I'm trying to follow along this tutorial here. It's a simple tutorial where the instructor ends up adding motion blur on a blue monkey, but without using the "motion blur" in Render ...
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Can Cycles' Vector Pass + Vector Blur node be used to create "smear" (instead of motion blur)?

Can the Cycles Vector Pass in conjunction with the Vector Blur compositor node be used to create "smear" instead of motion blur? To be clear, by "smear" I mean this sort of ...
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Artifact with Lights and Motion Blur

I came here with this issue because i cant find any sources online that address this, in this clip there is a spaceship, more specifically a tie fighter moving at different speeds throughout the ...
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Help with collections, compositing, and masking

I'm not sure what I need to use, collections, compositing, masking or something else. I want my final render to include two objects. One object has motion blur. The other object is the same dimensions,...
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I followed Blender Made Easy's tutorial and rendered this first frame and it's blurry as heck

I followed the Blender Tutorial - Creating a Stormy Ocean by Blender Made Easy, rendered the first frame and it's blurry as heck. A photographer said that, in photography, motion = blurry. But the ...
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Motion blur (not) on specific objects (Blender 3.3)

I'm trying to achieve some particle motion blur for a graphic I'm designing. Using cycles in v3.3, which comes with various blur options. I want to be able to control the blurring of different objects,...
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Fast Shutter Speed Effect / Shutter Angle (aka "Saving Private Ryan" effect)

Can anyone think of a way to approach creating a high speed shutter effect in Blender? In film when you want that jerky action motion you can increase the speed of your shutter, thereby decreasing ...
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Is motion blur possible for grease pencil objects?

I have some grease pencil line art and have a camera move across it. Is motion blur possible for the grease pencil strokes?
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Motion blur glitching out on random frames

I am making a scene with a character spinning something around at high speed but for some reason when I use the motion blur located in the render properties This happens But it is supposed to stay ...
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How to use new Blender 3.2 volumetric motion blur [closed]

So I did a simple volumetric animation (animated using map node) , but when I render the image I can't see any motion blur. I used cycles and enabled motion blur in the render settings and made the ...
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Motion Blur not working for newly imported SVGs

I returned to an older project because client needed a revision. Originally I had 2 imported SVG files of some typogaphy and those blur fine, but when I returned a month later and needed to update the ...
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Motion Blur keeps causing weird artifacts and making items dissapear

Enabling motion blur causes weird artifacts and making some planes disappear for a single frame. Video Render without motion blur : https://i.sstatic.net/LKZFl.jpg | Video Render with motion blur ...
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Motion blur is affecting non-moving parts

Without Motion Blur With Motion Blur The elements in the foreground are stationary. Link to blend: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15RwIEsUxgMJDbkD29R1llmPtU81jgVCA/view?usp=sharing
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How to fix shaky frames that appear when rendering with motion blur?

When I render my animation without motion blur it looks the following: But when I render it with motion blur it comes with weird appearing frames: I noticed that the frames that don't appear as they ...
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Motion Blur artifacts keep appearing in some of my frames, even when I don’t move erratically

I am currently using cycles on Blender 3.0, and as for camera animation, I actually use motion data from my phone. Now, for some reason, in my renders, I keep getting weird, unusual motion blur ...
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How to set up a good motion blur and shutter speed

So here's my problem, I recently moved on Blender, and I'm currently learning it (I mean, I know how to animate and stuff, but I need to learn it using Blender). So, I would like to get a good render ...
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Lower motion blur for some objects?

I want to know, how to lower motion blur for some objects in an animation. Camera is moving so fast, its making an object too blurry to tell what it is.
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Particle Systems + Motion blur on causes GPU memory issue

Blender version 2.93.3 GPU: GTX 3080 RAM: 32 GBS CPU 9700k Rendering in Optix+Motion blur on causes the error "Failed to build OptiX acceleration structure" and "System is out of GPU ...
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Adding Motion Blur to a Plane

I have a simple scene in which the camera is moving backwards away from the stage over the "crowd". The crowd is being represented by a plane with Voronoi Texture and Color Ramp nodes. My ...
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Blur differences between camera move vs object move?

I'm planning for a larger animation. And in this animation there will be a lot of camera travel. Now I wonder what's best. Should I move the static scene and the objects or the camera? Does it differ ...
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Models Twitching Randomly (Render Only)

SOLUTION: w/ thanks to Rich Sedman: The use of the array modifier was the cause. Since it used very large values to cover a large area, it essentially created huge meshes, which are difficult for ...
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How to apply Motion Blur to objects in Cycles?

I am wanting to apply Motion Blur but seems like I can get the blur only on the car. I am wanting to apply motion blur on the rendered background with no blur to the car except the wheels (to show the ...
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Auto Update Render Window on motion blur properties change?

Is it possible to have the render view update automatically instead of pressing manually F12 every time as I change motion blur effect properties? This is concerning Render view only and has nothing ...
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how to adjust motion blur to background in cycles blender

Creating video using image sequence. I want to express the speed using motion blur. For example, add strong motion blurs to wheels and backgrounds and add a little less to the main object. What can I ...
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Rendering frames off sequence

Okay so the gist is, I'm rendering an animation in Eevee with motion blur, the problem with that is whenever I make a jump cut, the 2 transition frames get blurred, so I re-render those 2 without ...
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Motion blur compositor

Motion blur in compositor doesn't blur poles. It is not the fault of the material because base of the pole has the same material and it is blurring just fine.
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Use volume float vector velocity field for motion blur in Vector pass

I simulated a pyro sim in houdini that generated three vector field (vel.x, vel.y, vel.z) and then merged them into one velocity field that I exported to a vdb. I applied a basic shader to the volume ...
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How to script the motion blur shutter curve?

I am trying to script the motion blur shutter curve (image below) for each frame of a render. I want to control the "openness" of the shutter curve with a list of values between 0 and 1. ...
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Motion Blur in EEVEE creating strange artifacts

I'm new to Blender and I've been practicing some simple animation. When I render out an animation EEVEE random frames through the animation gets this issue. When I turn of motion blur I get no such ...
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(Cycles only) Motion blur is not working in cycles but is working in Eevee

I have an issue with motion blur in cycles. I imported this alembic file from houdini and tried to render it with cycles but the motion blur isnt working. I have attached the screenshot of motion ...
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Motion Blur problems with wheels and Rigacar

I am currently trying to learn how to use rigacar to create a scene of a car racing through the tunnel. I am having issues when I try to add motion blur to the wheels. With no motion blur, the wheels ...
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