Different Lens types for Different Style
Using the Correct Lens to Tell Your Story
Lenses are one of the most powerful storytelling tools CG artists have. Each kind of lens has its own characteristics and it’s important for animators to have a clear understanding of these.
Your choice of lenses helps to communicate the emotional weight of the scene. Choosing the right lens will either communicate your message or confuse it.
Wide Angle VS Telephoto
Wide Angle Lenses create a wide field of view, meaning what is visible in the frame from side to side and top to bottom. These can be exceptionally useful when creating an environment with confined spaces such as the interior of a car or a small room.
Wide-Angle Lenses also stretch space, meaning rendering animation with this kind of lens will look very close and very large. This kind of lens creates an optical illusion known as forced perspective.
Telephoto Lenses are the exact opposite; they have a very narrow field of view, similar to looking through a paper towel roll. Telephoto Lenses compress space and offer a more flattering perspective when rendering close-ups of a CG character, for example. These are often called ‘beauty lenses’ because they make people’s facial features appear proportionate.
Nefertiti with 75mm lens
Nefertiti with 12mm lens.
Notice the forced perspective on her facial features and the grid.
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