Hello list, in case you will need highest quality water caustics (for the one out of 50 projects)... I made a bunch of them. I started working on it over a year ago when I needed high quality caustics for a project and I didn't find anything that would give me really nice results. So I built them by myself and they were so useful that I decided to make more variations and make it also more versatile und useful for others.
Yes, there are caustic sequences already available on stock footage websites
(filmed and CG) and there are also caustic generators out there, but they
are often in low res, or LDR or not loopable and have no chromatic
dispersion (what is very important to have a realistic look). Filmed
caustics are obviously not useful in general and most of the CG versions
look very artificial. To my knowledge, there is no caustic sequence that has
all these features combined and looking decent at the same time.
I spend a lot of time to make them as realistic and versatile as possible. I
made them commercially available and they might be useful for your upcoming
underwater shots. Even it is quite a niche product.
They comes as 200 frames loopable sequences in 2k exr, with chromatic
dispersion and are suited for different water depths. Four sets are
available: For pool scenes, fishtanks, ocean scenes and 'Miniature'. Each
set contains two versions and each of these contains four depth versions
(1,2,4 and 8m). So you will get eight sequences for each scenario or 32
sequences in total with all four sets. They can be easily combined to get
even more variety. Maybe also useful for comp and motiongraphics stuff, but
I designed them primarily for use in 3D scenes.
You can watch them in action here and you can also download a few samples:
http://advcaustics.imagefront.de/
Best regards,
Sven
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Sven Constable
Imagefront 3D & VFX
Ottobrunnerstr.2a
81737 München
Germany
phone (0)89 442 327 93
fax (0)89 442 327 94
www.imagefront.de
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