Hi

I'm trying to make a close-up scene of an object embedded in some sand but the material nearest the camera always looks terrible and pixelated.

The object is 17/18 cm from the camera so I've changed the focus of the camera to 17cm thinking maybe this will help but no! I think I've got the camera's focal length at 25mm.  I've rendered it in Broadcast quality thinking maybe that would help but again no!

Here's what I've got so far...

and here's kind of what I'm trying to achieve, i fudged this in photoshop...

Is there some option in the material editor that makes it look good when viewed close-up? Any ideas?

Cheers!

try scaling down the material...   if its at 1 for example, scale it down to 0.05

http://www.geekatplay.com/tutorials2.php

tutorial #52 , changing material based on how close camera to the object

Ah that worked a treat, thanks Rich!

:)

no probs, you should also check out volters tutorial though... :)

Fantastic tutorial. I will work with it also. :-) Thank you both. I love it when I learn a new trick. :-)