NUKE Final assessment

Nuke Session 7 | Tracking part 2

In this session of Nuke we will do a cleanup. We will replace the sky, changing it for another one. The other sky should not be really different from the real one , because otherwise we will need to grade it and relight the whole scene. First of all, we will search a big picture […]

Location shooting task

In this session of VFX Fundamentals, we recorded few pieces of footage in order to do a camera tracking. Camera tracking is a technique which consist in creating a 3D environment out of a 2D footage, recognizing different points of reference in the scene, and following their movement along the timeline. In this way, the […]

TASK | Collaborative Reference Footage with 3DCA

In this session, we worked along 3D Computer Animation students in orer to do a collaborative task. The task consisted in helping them recording different shots, key them out and clean them up so they could use it as a model to do a 3D Animation of it. Planning First of all, we had a […]

Nuke Session 6 | Tracking

In this Nuke session we are going to learn how to do a camera tracking. First of all, we are going to distort the image since it has a lot of lens distortion. Therefore, we are going to move the lens distortion to flat it up. We should do a research if we do not […]

Camera trackinmg shooting techniques

In every audiovisual project it is important to make an accurate planning of everything that is going to be shooted and edited. Specially, when applying VFX into a sequence, is really important to know which effects we are going to apply, in order to shoot the footage according to them. In this way, we make […]

TASK | Multi-shot keying comp

For this task we will need to key different footage of people walking over the same green screen in order to blend them together. Therefore, we will need to do the key of all the footage and then blend them together using a blank background frame as a guide. The process will be the following […]

Nuke session 4 | Keying

In this Nuke’s Session we will show how to do keying. First of all, we will import our footage in the notepad. This green screen is quite messy: in it, we have a lot of green spill, hair and also green clothes. There are different ways of keying, the first we are going to try […]

Good and bad lighting

In this session we are going to explore how to illumiante a scene in order to key correctly. When we are recording a shot in which we are using green screen, we need to guarantee that the green creen is lighted as uniform as possible, avoiding overexposured and shadowed areas, specially around the main character […]

Nuke Session 3 | Roto Painting

Roto painting In this nuke session we are going to explain how to do a roto painting. this technique is useful if we want to remove some elements of the image. First of all, we import our original footage pressing R. if we press S we can see the resolution of the footage, which is […]