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Questions tagged [effects]

questions related to the creation of specific visual effects within the compositor or just in general blender usage

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How to make pixelated censor effect?

I wonder how to make pixelated censor effect (which can be animated) in Blender (Cycles or BI). In Photoshop it's quite easy (you select the area, go to Filter-->Pixelate-->Mosaic and that's all. It's still however). I want to achieve the effect…
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I want to make a projector show an image displayed on surfaces

I would like to make a scene where a movie projector displays an image onto a wall but the image will get projected onto obstacles or even characters that pass between the projection wall and the projector. I have no clue how to accomplish this…
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How to make precisely defined trails along orbits in space

I'll be animating a large number of small objects following pre-calculated orbits. I'd like to add glowing trails that follow the orbit with an intensity that drops off with a specified decay function. Actually I'd like to emulate this effect as…
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Create a plasma-like effect in Blender

I found this effect but don't know how it is called, but it reminds me of plasma (don't know why): I'd like to apply this effect to a mesh to create something ghost-like. Something like this, but less opaque: How should I for a workflow to…
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How to add ringing artifacts?

A ringing artifact is one where edges will have a sort of high-contrasting banding pattern across them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts Even better would be to have multiple ringing bands, as seen here using a sinc filter: I…
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How to achieve anime-like smears in blender?

So I'm trying to do an anime-styled animation. I want to do something like a smear over the character when they move really quickly. Something like this: Is there any way to achieve something like this in blender? Edit: I've just tried something…
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More realistic lightning motion in Blender

I used the solution to create animated lightning found here to do the Sith lightning effects for my film (the effect can be seen here). Cool, but not cool enough. Each particle is completely random compared to previous particles, and does not…
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How can I recreate this shiny chrome effect?

I need to know how this shiny almost wet effect with the text. It also appears to have a ring light of some sort seen in the letter. I've tried principled BSDF node with metallic all the way up but it just doesn't look right. I've also tried using…
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Any chance to achieve soapy glass effect?

Well, I can't even image how to start doing it, ideas? Procedurally or not it doesn't really matter until I can modify it enough. Thanks!
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How do I make glowing line?

I have a question here. I'm doing an animation where there's a glowing line coming out from a globe (like what in the video down below), but i don't know how to do the exact effect in Blender. Glowing Line I tried some glowing shader on a curve but…
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How to make a metal emboss?

How to make a metal emboss a reference image attach. Is there any addon to make that effect
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How make a face-shaped desert storm in a blender?

I'm studying effects in Blender these days. The effect I want to make this time is a face-shaped desert storm as shown in the picture below, but it didn't go well even if I followed several tutorials. Could anybody teach me how to do it?
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how to get a Noisy edge in Blender 2.8/2.9 Cycles or Eevee

I am trying to recreate a few animations using 3d. There is a certain technique in After Effects which I love which is to give your 2d vector shapes a kind of a noisy edge so it isn't so clean. See Video here for example:…
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highlighter effect in blender on images

I would like to make vox videos like highlighter effect on images and planes. Like when the animation is started some lines are highlighted from left to right like highlighting the line.
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How to achieve a 3D warp field effect in blender (2.81)

I'm after a way to create an effect such that when an object is placed inside the volume the verticies are displaced based on the localised field value (thinking of it like a density field in physics where the local distance between atoms decreases…
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