Major Project: Maya Camera Distortion Tests & Focal Length Animation Tests

I wanted to play around with some of settings on the camera within Maya 2018/Arnold because I think that adding some distortion this way could be interesting. I initially played around with the different camera types such as perspective (default), fisheye, spherical, and cylindrical. I also played around with some other settings such as the FOV, focal length, aspect ratio, and lens squeeze ratio.

Default Perspective Camera

Perspective Cam - Aspect Ratio 10

Perspective Cam - Aspect Ratio 4.65

Perspective Cam - Aspect Ratio 10, Squeeze 3

Perspective Cam - Focal Length 2.5

Fisheye Cam - Not Cropped

Fisheye Cam - Cropped

Fisheye Cam - FOV 120

Fisheye Cam - FOV 150

Cylindrical Cam

Spherical Cam

Orthographic Cam

I then made two animation tests using the focal length. One animation I animated the focal length from 35 to 2.5 while the other animation test the focal length is at 2.5 but I moved the sphere and camera around. I found these tests quite interesting and I wonder what else I could do to the camera to give some other interesting results.