This gave me an interesting fish-eye-like effect that looked like this: Initially I started with the UV distortion from the aforementioned shadertoy.
The rest of the effects were mainly UV distortion with some random lines moving along the Y axis and some additional noise on top in various forms a subtle grain noise on top of the whole thing, some noise lines going up and down and some more noise on the top and bottom edges of the screen. In old video footage the edges aren’t very sharp and it seemed as if the colors bleeded into each other.Ī great reference was also this shader from shadertoy:įrom which I also got the UV distortion code. The main thing that stood out to me was the color bleeding at the edges: Effect elementsįirst off, I gathered a bunch of references to understand what makes a video look like it’s from the 90’s, while also looking very closely at the screenshots from “September 1999”. Needless to say, I got a bit over-excited with real-time GI and bounced light, as this is all lit just using a single point-light, not even using any ambient lighting here. I brought the scene into Unity and, using some textures from and some minor post-processing from Unity’s PPv2 (mainly bloom, AO and Vignette), I got this little scene: I started by setting up a small room in Blender using the pretty awesome “Archimesh” add-on, which looked like this:Īs I wanted to get a similar look to this moment from “September 1999”: My result, in motion, looks like this: Setup My main inspiration was the game “ September 1999” that had a really intense and realistic VHS effect and I really wanted to see how close I could get to that feel and to basically erase the pristine details of a normal 3D scene. I, being quite a big procrastinator, started working on the challenge the night of the last day, and thought I’d try a VHS video image effect, which I wanted to try for quite a while. This week’s theme was “Retro shaders”, given by Simon Trümpler, and was a very neat and open-ended theme that gave a lot of food for thought to the participants.
More on these challenges on the first tech-art challenge digest, which should be coming soon. Recently, in my Discord server, some members had the idea of starting a small and chill tech-art jam event, with different themes, to produce results around anything in tech-art be it tools, VFX, shaders etc.
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