Maya: Autofocus for Depth of Field

When you render an animation for a professional output like TV or KZbin or cinema, you need to apply Depth of Field (DOF) to the final scene during rendering. It's one of the main tools in 3D animation which mimics real cameras and, in this case, helps create a "cinematic look".
Maya provides "Measuring Tools", one of which is the "Distance Tool". I spend some time in this tutorial on the "Connection Editor" where we feed the distance value into the focal settings of the camera. The result is an Autofocus camera!
If you want to see some beautiful images rendered with DOF, check out this tutorial: • Maya: An Experiment of...
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[@mjparent222]

I will share this tutorial with my maya learning friends. More friend for you, more creative people around, with clever tutorials. Thank you.

[@arifulislamsunny2992]

Great tutorial. Very nice and clean. Thank you.

[@raol635]

Bravo, and thank you for this amazing explanation. I appreciate your work.

[@Uhr24]

thank you! it's my pleasure.

[@Baluprime]

Perfectly what am looking for... Thank you very much for clear explanation...

[@Uhr24]

i wasn't sure if it was clear enough. glad you can use the info.

[@Baluprime]

I searched many tutorials for this info... Every tutorial that I watched was on still frame where there is no movement in camera and objects... Am glad that I found your video... Thank you once again...

[@mjparent222]

Such a great explanation, useful informations. Thank you.

[@hellotanjun86]

very useful and clever tips, thanks!

[@artvisionproduction4773]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I have been looking for this kind of information all over the net. I really appreciate it..thanks again.

[@Uhr24]

you’re very welcome!

[@user-gj6kf6nb5i]

Amazing, my problem is over ! Thank you !

[@ronnelpanciles3805]

Thank you for this! Wonderful tutorial :D

[@Uhr24]

with pleasure, ronnel! --maximilian

[@Jsfilmz]

what if you have a moving camera and subject?

[@Uhr24]

well, keep meditating about this. constraint?

[@roxtube123]

thank you for sharing this :) just helped me with something im working on !

[@Uhr24]

you‘re very welcome.

[@gauravjitvirk2613]

just signed in to the yt account click like and leave the comment. Brilliant tutorial thanks

[@abinashsarangi5936]

Very helpful and easy tutorial , Thanks

[@Uhr24]

you‘re very welcome!

[@abolfazlfazlikhani6313]

very useful, i appreciate you. Thanks

[@Uhr24]

my pleasure!

[@cartoonbracket7150]

thankyou so much .....for this tutorial

[@Uhr24]

you‘re very welcome!

[@nadanahas3672]

very helpful a huge thank you!

[@Uhr24]

hi nada, there's actually a new tutorial coming up today where i massively use DOF for aesthetical reason. best, ----maximilian

[@avidsaeed8160]

Well done! Very useful Thx!

[@Uhr24]

glad it was helpful!

[@paulcunningham4147]

fantastic

[@NewCrafter201]

Nice thank you for this tip. It’s very usefull. :)

[@ayushbaral8269]

thank you so much

[@user-tn1bs8th4c]

thanks a lot!

[@UrbanExplorationYT]

Спасибо тебе мужик. Thx man!

[@gmilindchand]

Thanks a lot, God and also you my friend, Stunning buddy!!! This really helps us a lot...

[@Uhr24]

my pleasure.

[@leecaste]

Maya's default units are centimeters not meters

[@Uhr24]

very helpful indeed! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIXXZZyMapebeKs

[@stasnikitin1456]

why Maya and Arnold so complicated ( For example in Octane (3Dsmax) i can just pick focus point and camera automatically adjust focus. In Maya i have to spend at least 20 min. Anyway thanks for help

[@Uhr24]

stas, i need to concentrate on ONE piece of software. ----maximilian

[@egemen8946]

Can we do it with camera aim?

[@Uhr24]

do what?

[@egemen8946]

@@Uhr24 camera aim’s distance to Camera. Instead of locater. Sorry for my bad English

[@Uhr24]

same DOF-procedure for the camera aim.