Umm, really? If you watch you those movies, it sure doesn't show. All the flares in there are hopelessly exaggerated and not physically plausible. Maybe he did it for another movie, but clearly the "Star Wars" prequels are examples where someone just went trigger happy on that stuff and it looks rather fake...

 

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Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> hat am 11. Januar 2013 um 03:31 geschrieben:
> Yup!
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> If you watch the Red Giant TV interview with John Knoll, he describes how he built a rig to film real lens flares (might have been for the Star Wars prequels- can't remember).
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> Basically he got a box lined with black velvet, added a single LED, and built a motion control rig to move the box from a computer interface, then pointed a camera with a particularly flarey lens at the box.
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> It sounds like he could keyframe the flares in the same way you would with software like Optical Flares or KLF, but he was actually controlling a rig that created the flare in real life!
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> Interesting that he didn't use his own software, but hats off anyway for being a genius.
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> -Chris
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> On 11/01/2013, at 1:04 PM, Jim Curtis wrote:
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> > You know, it would be cool if somebody made a plug in that recreated lens flares like these.
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> > Oh, wait…
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> > On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Chris Zwar wrote:
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> >> There's a HD vimeo link on this page showing a compilation of real-life lens flares:
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> >> http://blog.domisljije.si/2013/01/03/lens-flares/
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> >> Great resource if you're interested in reality...
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