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CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart – Caustics
6. Quick Tutorial – Depth of Field
You probably are familiar with the depth-of-field effect from the field of photography. Depending on which
lens is used in which combination of camera settings it can only be focused on one more-or-less small area at
once – everything outside this area is out of focus. This effect is often used as a dramatic element in movies to
draw the viewer’s attention to a specific element in the scene. Of course CINEMA 4D’s Advanced Render Module
also offers this technique – as we will now demonstrate.
Load the scene “QS_DoF.c4d”.
Create a camera object (objects / scene / camera). Place the camera at the following position: X=370, Y=200,
Z=-1500 using the Attribute Manager,. Set the angle at H=25 degrees, P=-17 degrees. In the editor window’s
menu choose (objects / scene / camera). The editor view will switch to the camera’s view. All three figures
should be visible.
Now we’ll make the settings for the depth of field. Switch to “Depth“ in the camera menu of the Attribute
Manager. Set the target distance to 1500 1300 and activate “Front Blur“ and “Rear Blur“ in the camera’s Depth
tab in the Attribute Manager.