V-Ray Camera Simple Focus Pull Rig in Maya

Creative Director & Senior Motion Graphics Artist, Tobias Steiner shares a tip on how to create a simple focus pull rig in Maya for a V-Ray physical camera.

Quick tip on setting up a V-ray camera in Maya 2016 to have an automatic focus pull rig.

You may have seen this technique before, which uses the Maya measure tool to feed values to the correct channel in the camera.

It is slightly different with the V-Ray camera (physical), with the correct channel being hidden until you turn on the V-Ray camera “treat as physical” attributes.