"Volvo S90 on Bridge" Anamorphic Lenses in Unreal Engine

"Volvo S90 on Bridge" is a sample render using anamorphic lenses in Unreal Engine 5. I developed a library of anamorphic lens emulations using the "Lens File" calibration plugin, STmaps and lens distortion grids. It's a collection of rented cinema lenses, from new and modern to vintage and rarities, that has been shot against a lens grid to capture their lens distortion. These lens grids has then been converted to STmaps in Nuke, but also back to Lens Distortion grids as images. The images were then imported into Unreal Engine where I setup a cine camera actor with lens back settings to emulate an ARRI Alexa35 cinema camera shooting in 1:2,39 aspect ratio. The lens grids were then overlaid on top of a digital lens grid where each lens was carefully calibrated to match its distortion and FOV using the lens component. The profiles were saved together with their respective focal length. You won't get the genuine chromatic aberration, color reproduction or lens flares using this pack, but you get the overall look and feel. Instead of manually typing in the focal length in numbers of each lens you can also just hot swap the lens (in the details panel), more like a real DoP would do. I composed the render to show the effect of using the lens profiles.
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