Film Look Generator is an easy-to-use compositor tool that brings the authentic look of classic analog film to your projects. Instead of building complex node setups, you can quickly emulate the feel of vintage film stocks like 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8. With a simple panel, you can customize organic details including realistic sprocket holes (vertical, horizontal, and outlines), analog film grain (with color and brightness control), physical damage (like dust, hair, scratches, and splice marks), and professional color balance grading (Lift, Gamma, Gain). It also features vintage lens effects (like red halation and bloom) and realistic camera movement (such as gate weave and frame stutters) to completely transform your digital renders.

Compatibility: Blender 5+

Render Engine: Eevee & Cycles.

IMPORTANT INFO: Because this add-on simulates realistic analog film behavior procedurally, it can slow down viewport navigation and increase final rendering times depending on the number of active effects. For a smoother workflow, it is recommended to keep the effect toggled OFF while editing your scene, and only turn it ON when tweaking the look and rendering the final output.

KEY FEATURES:

- Realistic Mechanical Motion: Simulate organic gate weave, breathing, and abrupt vertical frame jitter (stutter/enganche) for natural camera/projector movement.

- Advanced Emulsion Grain: Procedural multi-layer RGB grain structure with custom scale, intensity, speed, chroma grain mix, and luma response (suppressing grain in absolute shadows and highlights).

- Photochemical Color Fading: Emulates chemical dye degradation (Vinegar Syndrome) where cyan fades first, resulting in a realistic, non-linear magenta/red cast.

- Physical Damage & Artifacts: Add customizable procedural scratches, hair/dust particles (with light/dark options), and realistic splice marks with flash frames.

- Optical & Vintage Lens Simulation: Emulate retro lens characteristics with halation (red-edge emulsion glow), bloom/haze, chromatic aberration (radial color fringing), and lens distortion (barrel/pincushion).

- Sprocket Holes & Burns: Mathematically generated sprocket perforations (35mm, 16mm, Super 8, outlines, and horizontal strips) with corner roundness, edge wear, vertical scrolling transport speed, and margin burn glows.

- Custom Gate Matte & Framing: Framing overlay with organic edge roughness, vignette shading, and defocus/soft focus controls.

- Integrated Color Grading: Pro-grade ASC-CDL Color Balance (Lift, Gamma, Gain color wheels) along with saturation, contrast, and brightness adjustments.

- Real-Time Compositor Support: Fully compatible with Blender's Viewport Compositor for instant real-time visual feedback.