Tilt-Shift effect in Papervision3D

About maybe a year ago a colleague of mine stumbled upon a flickr group that used camera’s with tilt-shift lenses to fake a “miniature look”. Next to having such a lens, this effect is pretty easy to fake in Photoshop, by appying a blur on a gradient selection. A little while later, via Keith Peter’s blog, I saw this video apply that same effect on video.

Don’t you just love that effect!? Now for a pet project site I was considering putting that tilt-shift effect on a Papervision scene. This kind of effect is pretty easy to set up, although CPU-processing can become quite intensive.

Maybe I’ll add some little details later, like little car-blocks driving around at the base of the buildings.