For anyone trying to follow along in Blender 5.1

[Nick Bordo]

Heres the setup I used if anyone is trying to follow in a newer version of Blender. Found the Glare node worked a bit differently; the relative option is no longer available, and you don’t have to do the texture work around mentioned. I was able to just use the straight up noise texture to create the film grain effect. 

Hope it helps! 

                       +------[Glare]-------+
                       +->o Image        Image o--+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                       |  |              Glare o  |                                                                                     |
                       |  |         Highlights o  |                                                                                     |
                       |  | Fog Glow / Medium  |  |                                                                                     |                                                          +--[Group Output]--+
                       |  | Highlights         |  |                                                                                     |                                                       +->o Image            |
                       |  |  Threshold   0.000 |  |                                                                                     |                                                       |  +------------------+
                       |  |  Smoothness  1.000 |  |                                                                                     |                                                       |
                       |  |  [ ] Clamp         |  |                                                                                     |                               +-----[Overlay]-----+   |
                       |  |  Maximum     0.200 |  |   +---[Ellipse Mask]---+                                                            |                               |            Result o--++
                       |  | Adjust             |  |   |               Mask o----+                                                       |   +-----[Overlay]-----+       | Color             |  |
                       |  |  Strength    0.675 |  |   | Add                |    |                                                       |   |            Result o---+   | Overlay           |  |
                       |  |  Saturation  1.000 |  |   o Mask         0.000 |    |                                                       |   | Color             |   |   | [ ] Clamp Result  |  |
                       |  |  Tint       [___]  |  |   o Value        1.000 |    |                                                       |   | Overlay           |   |   | [x] Clamp Factor  |  |   +-----[Viewer]-----+
                       |  | Glare              |  |   | Position           |    |                                                       |   | [ ] Clamp Result  |   |   o Factor      1.000 |  +-->o Image            |
                       |  |  Size        0.592 |  |   |   X          0.640 |    |                                                       |   | [x] Clamp Factor  |   +-->o A                 |      +------------------+
                       |  +--------------------+  |   |   Y          0.500 |    |                                                       |   o Factor      1.000 |    +->o B                 |
                       |                          |   | Size               |    |                                                       +-->o A                 |    |  +-------------------+
                       |                          |   |   X          0.733 |    |                                                        +->o B                 |    |
+--[Render Layers]--+  |                          |   |   Y          0.600 |    |     +------[Blur]-------+                              |  +-------------------+    |
| Scene | ViewLayer |  |                          |   | Rotation   0.186deg|    |     |             Image o---+                          |                           |
|             Image o--+                          |   +--------------------+    +---->o Image             |   |                          |                           |
|             Alpha o                             |                               +-->o Size              |   |  +----[Multiply]-----+   |                           |
+-------------------+                             |                               |   | Fast Gaussian     |   |  |             Value o---+                           |
                                                  |                               |   | [ ] Extend Bounds |   |  | Multiply          |      +--[Noise Texture]---+   |
                                                  |   +-[Relative To Pixel]--+    |   | [x] Separable     |   |  | [ ] Clamp         |      |             Factor o   |
                                                  |   |                Value o----+   +-------------------+   +->o Value             |      |              Color o---+
                                                  |   o Vector               |                                   o Value       0.900 |      | 3D                 |
                                                  |   | X                    |                                   +-------------------+      | fBM                |
                                                  |   o Value                |                                                              | [x] Normalize      |
                                                  |   |                0.617 |                                                              o Vector             |
                                                  |   |                0.617 |                                                              | Scale      400.000 |
                                                  +-->o Image                |                                                              | Detail      10.000 |
                                                      +----------------------+                                                              | Roughness    1.000 |
                                                                                                                                            | Lacunarity   2.000 |
                                                                                                                                            | Distortion   0.000 |
                                                                                                                                            +--------------------+

[Grady Pruitt]

Nice flow chart… did you know that under Window in the menu, you can save a Screenshot? 😉

[Dwayne Savage]

Side note: as of 5.2 and newer there is actually a film grain node group. If you don’t see the node group assets in the compositor, click view menu and check asset shelf. I don’t remember which ones where available in 5.1. There was like 2 or 4. It may have the film grain one also. 

[Sascha Feider]

The film grain group is new to 5.2.
It simulates analogue cameras like 70mm cinematic or super8. It’s rather specific. For a more generic or digital camera simulation the sensor noise still makes sense to use and offers more control over luminance and chromatic noise individually.

[Nick Bordo]

Haha yup I did know that, but for new posts I couldn’t post an image directly, so instead of linking to something that could expire, I did this instead 🙂 

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