(If you're just here to find the tool, scroll straight to the bottom. If you want a little bit of the history of how this tool came to be, read on.) Over the year, I've tried my hands a few times at getting better results doing relighting in Nuke. As much as I love working [...]
Even though it’s the compositor’s bread and butter, Keying can still be a particularly painful subject. I’ve been pulling keys for over a decade, yet it is often scarier than comping a full CG realistic shots with projected matte paintings and volumetric smoke. One can never have too many tools on their belt for pulling [...]
Last week we started playing with Higx PointRender, and we saw how it wasn’t really a particle system as we’re used to. Let’s dive a little deeper to understand what differs between this method and Nuke’s particle system, see how we can get our points to behave more like particles, and what are the limitations [...]
For the very few of you who have missed it, the talented Mads Hagbarth recently released his Higx PointRender. While the tool is not free, it’s pretty affordable compared to what some others might charge for tools that can accomplish this much. There are a few video tutorials on the official website, plus some experiments on [...]
Since I discovered that Nuke was concatenating Transform nodes for me, I liked to break out my transformations into multiple nodes to give me a bit more flexibility. I would do a stabilize, some keyframe animation, scale up a bit, rotate for a while, matchmove, re-scale, in different nodes. Nuke was smart about it, and [...]
While Vray is remarkably intuitive for some daily operations, others might require a much more convoluted process. The creation of non-standard render passes, and especially the “Pref” pass is one of these (read that P-ref, like you’d read T-Rex). A few tutorials cover how to render custom render passes (a.k.a. AOVs) such as this one [...]
Alright, that’s a long title, but that’s the shortest I could come up with to describe this tutorial. It’s not rare that someone, somewhere, provides us with an element (logo, UI, motion graphics, precomp, anything really) with a nice alpha, but with a white or colored background. Of course it’s not ideal, but that’s nothing [...]
To complement last article about the Vector tools, I’m going to post 4 mini-tutorials to inspire possible uses for these Tools. […]
I just published a suite of Vector tools on Nukepedia (Download and Quick description here). In this post I will to run the more nerdy of you through the math involved, in part 2 I will include mini-tutorials of example usage of these tools. […]
I was reading the excellent blog DoingThatWrong by Dan Sturm (who I don’t personally know) and saw his article about Rounded Rectangles. As I was reading the article and downloaded the tool, I wondered how I would have made a similar tool, and how to get around the limitations Dan is pointing out in his article. My [...]
