Chappie

The shot focuses on establishing a cinematic sci-fi look using atmosphere and lighting, with volumetric haze added to create depth and scale.

Eye flares were created in NukeX using the Flare node, along with lens distortion and subtle chromatic aberration for realism.

The final grade uses a Kodak LUT for a gritty filmic look, finished with camera shake and cleanup of noisy specular passes using Hisi’s Vector Frame Blend node.