Category: Nuke

Here i have created a sequence tracking and overlaying a background onto a movie poster, this needed to have a swivel and be tracked properly in order to give it the 3D screen look, as apposed to a more basic poster look.

For these weeks I have worked on my rotoscoping skills, as well as colour grading and correction. Using tracking I have placed a castle on the hill just to add an extra dynamic to the clip. The keyframes moving the balloon have been “Beziered” in order to smoothen out the movement of the balloon to make it more realistic. 

Above i have referenced the ability to use other screens as a background, or paste certain layer into other moving shots.

• Starting nuke
• Introduction to nodes
• Understanding digital colours 
• Rotoscope

Beginning

We began to learn how objects are rendered and used within nuke.

This process was interesting as it required us to begin using keyframes that would make the balloon spin there for giving us more creative control once the objets were properly exported into nuke.

Unfortunately i missed the lesson on nuke in person although was able to catch up via the recording and some notes that were sent to me by a classmate. We looked into rotoscoping within nuke.

Personally i found this quite difficult as i am very comfortable rotoscoping with AE as it is something that i do regularly within my personal projects, therefore i found doing it within nuke a little bit out of my comfort zone. although i understand that this process is giving me more knowledge and i was able to see some of the benefits of doing it within nuke regardless of my own personal preference.

The homework was to rotoscope and render a man running from the background.

WEEK 1

• Film fundamentals
• Rules of thirds 
• Aspect ratios 
• Basic camera work 
• Lighting 

WEEK 2

• Exposure 
• Aperture 
• Basic camera work 

The first few weeks of nuke have been reiterating basic camera skills, relearning terminology that may have been lost and ensuring we were up to date on basic understandings of tools and guidelines set within videography, cinematography editing and production.

Below was my Week 2 task homework

So far this week we have not begun learning NUKE our lesson with Gonzales was a warmup where he went into the detail of compositing and broke down some of our questions and gave us some insight into the professional world of VFX such as

• Director and VFX specialist relationship
• Compositing
• Aspect Ratios
• Color grading and Color correction
• shot planning
• rule of thirds
• and more

We were assigned a task to make a collage of ten photos that represented “time”