How to shoot Distortion Grids

Comprehensive step-by-step guide of how to shoot distortion grids. You will see the most common mistakes, and get links to useful materials that you can find in the description down below. We hope that this information will make your pipeline more efficient. Have a good solve! ▼ Timestamps ▼ » 0:02 - Intro » 0:34 - Preparation » 1:53 - Camera setup » 3:09 - Lens setup » 4:58 - Focal Length and Focus Distance » 5:38 - Shooting » 7:04 - Zoom lenses » 7:24 - Macro lenses » 7:37 - Telephoto lenses » 8:10 - LDS (Lens Data System) » 8:37 - Conclusions » 8:51 - Naming of working files » 8:58 - Crop of distortion grid ----------------------------------------------------------------- Director: Andrei Sharapko Editing, CG and Color correction: Anton Goncharov Sound: Artyom Abramyan LKS shootings: 1st AC: Ivan Shilov 2nd AC: Pavel Belyakov Backstage: Anton Goncharov Administrator: Roman Petruk Art director: Olesya Nushtaeva Best boy: Andrei Krasnov Mosfilm shooting: Producer: Aleksandr Lamberg 1st AC: Sergei Petrov 2nd AC: Roman Azovtcev Backstage: Maksim Tverskikh ----------------------------------------------------------------- Supported by: ZHEESHEE production - Green FX - Online-VFX - T-VFX - - Natalia Vanturina Igor Baydak Andrew Divnogorsky Sitdikov Ilya Vyacheslav Khramyshev Vladislav Vernikovskiy Vep Vladimir Korneytsev Egor Chadov Alexey Zaitcev Denis Gordeev Evgeny Yakovlev Denis Kharitonov naumovnan@ Evgeny Skvortsov Special thanks to LKS Rental and personally to Andrei Birukov ----------------------------------------------------------------- Useful links: ► Distortion Grids Database - ► Buy Distortion Grid - ► Print your own Distortion Grid - ► How to crop Distortion Grids (our tool) - ► Focus Distance chart - ► VFX Camera Database - ► Tools for Matchmove artists - ► Text version of this Video Guide - #DistortionGrid #CameraTracking #VFX ----------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Matchmove machine: Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn |