Quote Originally Posted by RobA View Post
Is it just me who finds it funny that photographers go insane to remove lens flare from photographs, and camera lens manufactures seek it as a holy grail, yet 3D modelers always add them in to scenes?
A director of Stargate SG-1 commented about that, saying that the cinematographers do everything they can to avoid flares, only to have the CG people put them in anyway. But at least a synthetic flare goes right where you want it to and can serve to hide artifacts.

I really need to dig into Vue, also, for matte painting purposes.