FREE Real Anamorphic Cinema Lenses for Unreal Engine 5 (v002)

Add realism to your cinematics and renders in Unreal Engine with 100% genuine anamorphic cinema lenses that Hollywood cinematographers usually rent for feature film productions. These are digital .uasset files, that you can import to your content folder and start creating cinematic looking shots with character and a genuine feel - totally for FREE! More anamorphic for the people.

Genuine? How are these made?

These are a collection of rented cinema lenses, from new and modern to vintage and rarities, that has been shot against a lens grid to capture their lens distortion. These lens grids has then been converted to STmaps in Nuke. The images were then imported into Unreal Engine where I setup a cine camera actor with lens back settings to emulate an ARRI Alexa35 cinema camera shooting in 1:2,39 aspect ratio. The profiles were saved together with their respective focal length and stMap. You won't get the genuine chromatic aberration, color reproduction or lens flares using this pack, but you get the overall look and feel. Instead of manually typing in the focal length in numbers of each lens you can also just hot swap the lens (in the details panel), more like a real DoP would do.

23/12/18 Release note: This has been updated to (version 002) and now uses the stMaps directly from the lenses for a 100% pixel to pixel match of the real lenses. The pack includes ALL anamorphic prime lenses + a bonus two zoom anamorphics. These zooms don't have a focal length in the lens file, only distortion, so you will need to type in the focal length you want in the camera settings. Please read the important notes further down on the page. Thanks.

The version 002 of this FREE pack includes:

1.5x squeeze anamorphics:

• Iscorama Pre36 1.5x
• PS Technik 35-70mm Zoom 1.5x

1.8x squeeze anamorphics:

• Cooke FFi 1.8x

2x squeeze anamorphics:

• Angenieux Optimo 44-440mm 2x
• Arri-Zeiss Master Anamorphic 2x
• Atlas Orion 2x
• Cineovision 2x
• Cooke SFi 2x
• Elite MK4 2x
• Hawk V-Lite Vintage74 2x
• Kowa CineProminar 2x
• Lomo RoundFront 2x
• Panavision AutoPanatar 2x
• Panavision C Series 2x
• Panavision D Series 2x
• Panavision E Series 2x
• Panavision G Series 2x
• Panavision Primo 2x
• Todd AO High Speed 2x

The version 003 (coming shortly - it takes time to convert everything by hand) also includes spherical lenses:

• Arri Signature
• Arri-Zeiss Master
• Camtech Falcon FF
• Canon CN-E
• Canon FDD
• Canon K-35
• Canon Sumire
• Cooke S4i
• Cooke S7i
• Leica R
• Leica Summilux-C
• Leitz Thalia
• Nikon AI-S
• Rokinon XEEN
• Schneider XenonFF
• Sigma Cine FF Classic
• Sigma HighSpeed
• Tokina Vista
• Tokina VistaOne
• Tribe7 Blackwing7
• Zeiss CP.2
• Zeiss CP.3
• Zeiss Supreme
• Zeiss Supreme Radiance

Watch my tutorial/overview on how to use the lenses here:

Important notes:

1. Tested and fully working in Unreal Engine version 5.1.1. and higher.
2. As of version 002, the lenses are made for S35 sensor filmbacks. This means if a lens actually is for Full Format it will display the incorrect focal length. Please be aware of this as I'm going through all lenses, making them as realistic and true to life as possible. S35 shows correct focal length right now.
3. If you're using an 1.5x squeeze lens, please select 1.5x squeeze in the camera settings for correct FOV.
4. I've only included lenses I had the real stMaps for i.e. that some lenses/focal lengths in some sets are missing. An example of this is the Panavision D Series. If you want a 50mm for example you will need to copy the lenses that do exist and change the focal length in the lens file, but keep the old/wrong stMaps for a similar look.
5. It takes time to calibrate all the lenses one-by-one, if you want me to priorities any specific lens series mentioned above feel free to send me a message!
6. These are only used for aesthetic usages for digital cinematics and are not meant to replace shooting a real lens grid using your own lenses if you plan on doing visual effects, please use accordingly.

Thanks and hope you enjoy!

Best,
tiedtke.