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How To Create A Blurry Background In SFM
By Landeyx
A blurry background is a pretty cool effect for SFM posters, today I will explain you how you can create a blurry background, or improve it.
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Intro
Hello everybody, my name is Landeyx and today I bring you yet another SFM guide.
Today I will explain how you can create a blurry background, and refine it.
In the end, your posters will look somewhat like this:






How To
Tip: do this after you've posed your camera and model.

Step 1: With your model spawned and a camera ready, right click your animation set editor and click "create animation set for existing elements"


Step 2: Click on camera (x) in the window which appears.

Step 3: Whilst in the motion set editor, click the camera and move your focal distance slider in the animation set editor until the purple square thing is clipping in your model.

Step 4: Slide the aperture meter all the way to the right.


Step 5: Make your render settings depth of field 1024 override and turn motion blur off.

Step 6: Export your poster and enjoy the result!


45 Comments
Скот_2010 4 Dec, 2024 @ 4:29am 
It`s easy but idk about this before your tutorial! Thanks you!
Grug 20 Oct, 2024 @ 5:01am 
Grug
Game Glitcher 17 Oct, 2024 @ 1:25pm 
@TrashPay2Play #gamelage.tf There is a way to do it, just adjust the focalDistance so it's behind the model and not on them.
Trashpay2play 4 Aug, 2024 @ 1:34am 
Is there any way to invert the blur making the character blurry and the background clear?
LilAngie 30 Sep, 2023 @ 11:11pm 
Thank you for posting this! I'm an SFM newb and I want to git gud! XD
Victor the Dragon 15 Jul, 2023 @ 12:47pm 
damn why no one told about "create animation set for existing elements" its awesome
LaPoule 4 Jul, 2023 @ 11:20pm 
ty
Gustavo Frings 1 Feb, 2023 @ 6:43am 
am new to sfm and really there is some guide i think that animating is an amazing thing and people who are animating are nice some helped me ect:steamthumbsup:
TheGoldenTerror 28 Jan, 2023 @ 9:16pm 
nvm my sfm was slow i see the square now
TheGoldenTerror 28 Jan, 2023 @ 9:07pm 
whats the purple sqaure thing i dont see anything like that