08 Tutorial to make a breakdown of your Nuke composite

This tutorial shows a simple way to make a labelled breakdown of your composited sequence. This would be useful if you are making a showreel and want to show how you made a visual effect or alterations to original filmed footage. Made for my students at Greenwich University to make breakdowns of their projects during the Coronavirus term extension allowed through April.

Grading Principles

Comping Multipass CG renders in Nuke

Breaking down and comping a single 3d render using Nuke. The multipass 3d render is separated out into the various constituent passes - diffuse, specular, shadows, ambient occlusion. Then they are layered up one at a time over the background footage. This tutorial uses Maya with Arnold and NukeX

Planar tracking tutorial using Nuke X

Video tutorial on planar tracking using NukeX . Part of a series of basic skills for VFX work. This video is an english language version of a video made in Hindi by learning lab. The free to download footage is from Hollywood camerawork

Nuke Chroma key tutorial / exercise using two keys

This tutorial was recorded at Greenwich University in 2020. This lesson was to demonstrate a VFX method for making a good chromakey combining a good subtle key for edge details and hair plus a hard key for keeping interior details. Learn to get a good edge key using Keylight. Also using Keylight you can make and add an InMatte . Using a Roto shape you can make an OutMatte garbage matte.

Roto-splining the Flying Carrots

This tutorial was recorded at Greenwich University in 2020. This lesson was to demonstrate a VFX method for making a magic flying bowl of carrots. This is a basic lesson covering ROTOSCOPING, CLEAN PLATE use and MERGING to remove unwanted elements in the footage.

Herd Immunity

Nuke Tutorial - Clean Plate Prop Removal - The Levitating Colt 45 Pistol

A simple tutorial for merging through to a clean plate to make an object fly. We will remove the unwanted prop and hand of the operator to make the pistol appear to float into the air. This tutorial will teach skills in clean plate production and rotoscoping as well as simple grading and image manipulation

Intro to 3d Compositing and Projections in NukeX

Lecture at Greenwich University for the VFX Principles module 2020. Recreating a 2d still background in a 3d environment. Adding a chromakeyed person to the scene and making a 3d camera move into the scene. The tutorial is an introduction to the basic 3d nodes and to cards and projections within the 3d environment. Footage can be found and downloaded at the Hollywood Camera Work website . www.hollywoodcamerawork.com The warehouse can be found on Google