Chromatic abberation (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 02:22 (3859 days ago) @ electricpirate

Bleh, not my favorite effect. That dude looks great in motion though,

I was thinking the same thing. On the initial shots where it was outdoors it looked good, but in low-light conditions it seems over-exaggerated and unrealistic. I'm not even sure that a real chromatic aberration would be that visible in low-light. Certainly the scale of the colour phasing seems excessive here:

The little flecks of light aren't just showing aberration — they're completely separating out into the three colour channels, creating three flecks from one. Same with the vertical lines. I have to imagine when it's running at whatever resolution it runs at natively, without any supersampling, this effect isn't going to be so extreme, but right here it looks like it needs toning down a bit.