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Volumetric Windows 10 logo effect
Emulate light scattering using a volumetric emission shader
Using Volumetric scatter produces the most accurate results but required a considerable number of render samples to get satisfactory ...
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Rolling shutter effect
Everything in Blender is artificial. (lighting, shading, ...)
Blender Cycles has the rolling shutter functionality. Go to the scene settings and enable motion blur. In the Shutter Type, select Top To ...
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Blender Eevee how to render Bloom effect when using transparent background
I found a workaround with compositing:
1- Enable Bloom pass in View Layer before rendering
2- In Compositor, Add the Bloom pass to the Alpha of the image, use a ColorRamp node to control the bloom ...
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Blender halftone pattern filter
By inverting the RGB channels before splitting them I was able to create a working setup that is also easier to understand.
Here is the new node setup:
There are a few things that can probably be ...
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How to make pixelated censor effect?
Compositing can be used to create a pixelated effect. Masks can be used to control where the pixelation occurs. The animation below shows an animated pixelated window.
Steps to create a pixelated ...
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Volumetric Windows 10 logo effect
You should look at the sunbeam node in the compositor - after render, you can add several filters and color mix nodes, but a really good way to get this effect seems to be with the sunbeam node to ...
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stormy rainy window effect
A polygon-rich approach
I gave it a go with a shower of particles. This may be a little bit too resource-intense for just a background feature though.
The setup
I created a simple "room" ...
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How to make a circular rainbow effect?
This is a post effect as it occurs inside the lens. I have used a mask to create the ring, then added some noise from a cloud texture, this is distorted radially to make streaks (that you could ...
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How can I do a monitoring/guard CCTV camera effect with blender?
If you are trying to achieve this effect on the right:
Use the compositor and distort the source image with a Lens Distortion Node in projector mode. This can make it appear like a fisheye lens. ...
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How to use Halftone Python Shader node?
The post you reference in your question is almost 10 years old and appears to rely on Blender features and APIs that are no longer available.
The code is definitely not for an OSL shader - so using a ...
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Emission: Red glow while the object itself is white
If you really want to use Cycles: Add a box which encloses the entire scene, add a principled volume shader to the box and play with Density and Anisotropy:
In comp you can add a Denoise node to save ...
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Emission: Red glow while the object itself is white
From a physically based rendering point of view, the problem you are running into is that Blender's HDR tone mapping is trying too hard to be helpful.
The effect you see in the reference image occurs ...
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Adding Imprints On Objects
There are various ways to accomplish this. I will share two methods that I've found work well.
1. The Transmission Mask Method (for stills)
This method involves modeling a simple foot object that ...
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Scan plane "shadow"
Similiar to icYou520's answer you could create a special lamp and add a volumetric container. Since this is very render-intense here comes another hack.
Model by jahjavjaz
Is is a planar ngon which ...
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Atmospheric Trail
For a cartoonish effect trail create a dummy object for your trail smoke, in this case I used an icosphere.
Create a particle emitter attached to you moving object, in this case I used a simple plane....
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How to create reeling (spool) effect?
You can probably achieve better results with animation nodes similiar to cegaton's second linked answer. This answer will be the inaccurate, fast method. If you followed the linked tutorial, you can ...
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How can I create a silhouette using HDR in cycles?
In addition to the dynamic range of the light coming from the surrounding environment, also consider the dynamic range and exposure level of the camera.
If your HDRi is significantly brighter on one ...
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Creating Disney-style circular fireworks
You could create a long cylinder for your trail, with a big spherical head, give it the following modifiers: Subdivision Surface, Curve, Displace (to give it a bit of bumps), also give it a particle ...
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How to produce glitch effects
I used particles with refraction shader, with random rotation in Global Y axis.
The particles were rectangular planes, and their material used the "Object info > Random" value to randomize what each ...
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How to add a ghostly "Glow" effect?
Create a Glow Layer
You separate your render into two, the normal render and a glow render, both layers with a transparent background, in the glow layer set all the objects to have the same material (...
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Can you replicate Optics Compensation in VSE?
You can directly undistort footage in the Sequencer, once you have it set up correctly in 2.8.
Open up the movie clip editor and open your footage.
To properly choose some distorsion value, we will ...
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Emission: Red glow while the object itself is white
That's actually quite challenging. I wonder if the maker of your reference image used some compositing.
At least I think separate lights were used for the background objects.
And to answer your ...
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How can I do color keying using the VSE?
Option 1
The VSE cannot do a chroma key by itself. You can however make a simple key with modifiers. In this example I have:
The foreground strip (source A) at the bottom to serve as key source
Then ...
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How to produce glitch effects
That can be done also with Cycles nodes:
The idea is to use a generated texture (say a noise texture for instance) and to offset each line by the amount give to the corresponding line of the ...
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Toon Style Explosion
Somethink like this ? (Using similar, not same teqniques?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZjhESZPxA
At the firs place, its not my tutorial, originally its from Pierrick Picaut
and his P2Design. ...
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How to make a metal emboss?
No, there's no addon that I know of that can do what you want automatically, you will likely have to do it by hand, one way or another. There are a few workarounds that can fake it, though.
It's an ...
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How to create a strong halo light effect?
Use the compositor Glare node with the type set to 'Fog Glow'.
Ensure you have a suitable emission material behind the 'windows' to ensure there is a bright area for the glow to act on. Add a 'Glow' ...
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