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 […]

TASK | Fortitude Episode One | Design filmic experiences

Fortitude is a psychological thriller television. It is settled in a fictional town called Fortitude, located in the Arctic Circle. Fortitude is consider one of the safest towns on earth. Until a violent crime takes place there, and the peace ends. Narrative vision This series is speaking to a public who is interested in science […]

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 […]

TASK | Track and remove facial markers

Film Language

By speaking about film language we can refer to the technical features -as pacing, editing, compositing and lighting- or the asthetic/thematic, which are going to be developed in this blog entry. Color Colors can be a powerful tool to give a message in cinema. It also comes down to a post production process in coloring, […]

TASK | Research topic proposals

In order to find an interesting topic for my research, I divide the topics in two groups. The first group will include all the topics that are in my comfort zone, which means that I have a basic knowledge about the topic and a defined starting point. The second group will include all those topics […]

Nuke Session 2

Merge In this section we are going to explain how to create an alpha channel and merge two pictures. First of all, we will open out background footage. If we wish to change the dimensions of it, we can press s so view project settings. We can change, for example, the dimension of the picture, […]

TASK | VFX leaps

“There have been numerous technical and creative leaps in VFX and filmmaking, but which two are the most significant? How and why are they paradigm shifts in the way we work?” Nowadays, there are numerous blockbusters in the film industry which clearly make use of VFX. But visual effects were not born with action movies […]