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ChainsawAsh
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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19-Nov-2008, 1:49 AM
Kurgan said:

BUT if you're going to add any, I suggest making them the oval style of reflections you'd see from an anamorphic camera lens (as the films were created in) rather than the trite "round" lens flare you see in every movie and video game...

Agreed, but here's something to keep in mind.

Any shot where the lens flare itself is to be created by what would have been an optical effect at the time the movie was shot should be a round lens flare, since that would have been shot using horizontally-run 35mm film with a spherical lens (like the original Star Wars) or 65mm film (like Close Encounters or Blade Runner), also with a spherical lens.  (I don't know how ESB and ROTJ's opticals/composites were done)

Any shot where the lens flare itself is to be created by something that would have been shot on-set should have an ovular lens flare, since that would have been shot using an anamorphic lens.

Although personally, I'm a fan of using ovular lens flares for every such flare in a "scope" film, regardless of whether it was shot using anamorphic lenses, super 35 spherical, or 70mm - the circular flares in the IMAX scenes of The Dark Knight bother me, for example.