Fish-eye?

[griffdrc]

a sphere with the refraction turned up... but the rendering takes a while... u could also fool around w/ widening the camera angle (how a fish-eye lens works)

[Carm3D]

Probably best to do this as a post-process effect.

You could map your rendered animation to a multi-faceted plane and use the pole tool to warp it into a fisheye lens shape. Place that in front of a camera and re-render. I suggest you make your original render 2x the needed resolution so that it holds up when deformed.

[tais]

SPECIAL PROJECTION ENGINE 1.5:
http://www.arrakis.es/~juanj/

[AstroSanchezz]

the way i've done this before was just as grffdrc said
use just a ball with reflection 100%
and diffuse 0% worked good :D

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