Compositor FX

A Complete Finishing Toolkit for Blender’s Compositor

Blender’s compositor is powerful, but it lacks many of the optical and finishing tools that real VFX pipelines rely on. It has no true film-presets, no accurate optical diffusion, no high-quality grain or halation, and very little control over real lens behavior. The result is simple: even strong renders can feel digital, sterile, or unfinished.

This FX toolset fills the gaps. It gives you the missing nodes professionals expect in a finishing pipeline and lets you preview nearly all effects directly in the viewport. Every tool is built for practical use, predictable control, and real photorealism.

Optics

Tools that simulate how real glass behaves.

Mist Filter
Accurate lens-mist diffusion that softens highlights and lifts low end without destroying contrast. Includes two film-inspired presets plus density and scale controls.

Chromatic Aberration
A complete CA system that goes far beyond Blender’s native option. Control scale, rotation, offset, and color weighting to match everything from subtle lens shifts to harsh vintage fringing.

Random Aberrations
Procedural micro-imperfections that introduce the subtle irregularities real lenses have. Adds life and physical grounding to renders.

Lens Distortion
Fully customizable and stackable distortion that mimics real optical paths. Delivers truer curvature and field warping than the built-in node.

Color

Film stocks designed for real finishing.

Kodak 2383
A reliable film-print look with dense blacks, rich color separation, and predictable highlight rolloff.

Kodak E 200
A classic slide-film palette with cooler midtones, tighter contrast, and clean saturation.

Aperture

Tools shaped by real camera physics.

Diffraction Bloom
A physically informed glow that reacts to aperture characteristics, creating natural highlight expansion without fake softness.

Vignette
A clean, flexible vignette to frame your shot without muddy gradients.

Image Plane

Film behaviors that digital renders usually miss.

Camera Shake
Gate weave, micro-jitter, handheld shake, and motion-blur-aware offsets. Adds physical instability that sells realism fast.

Flicker
Exposure fluctuations that mimic film or imperfect electronic sensors.

Grain
Per-channel, photoreal grain with proper blending. Behaves like real stock: structured in the shadows, cleaner in the highs.

Halation
Accurate film halation with scale and intensity controls. Creates that red-fringe glow around bright sources that CG rarely captures.

Bonus

Instant Slap-Comp
A full, ready-to-use finishing chain that stacks everything correctly. Drop it in, tune a few sliders, and get a believable plate fast.

Why It Matters

High-end VFX finishing is built on small optical cues. Diffusion. Imperfections. Grain structure. Stock characteristics. Aperture bloom. Real drift and flicker. These details separate “good CG” from work that feels photographed.

Blender doesn’t ship with these tools. This pack gives you all of them in one place.

You get a compositor that behaves more like a film lab: grounded, flexible, and capable of real shot finishing. Most nodes run directly in the viewport, so you see your look evolve as you work.

For artists serious about photorealism, film emulation, and broadcast-level polish, this toolset becomes indispensable.