The first collaboration between MPC Shanghai, MPC London and MPC Bangalore. We created a full CG dinosaur, digital matte paintings and assembled it into this cool commercial in just a few short weeks. It was an interesting challenge to figure out the best workflow between 3 different locations in 3 different time zones. […]
Last week I wrote about how to make your first little plugin for Nuke using Python. It was a good start but it was missing a few functions to be fully done. The biggest issue was that once a preset is created, you had no way to edit or delete it, without going to change [...]
We’ve looked at a few examples of Nuke code in my previous posts, and hopefully, you’re starting to get around to reading Python code. Today I’d like to take you through the whole process of making a small python plug-in. We will start by defining the project, think about different solutions, define the main structure [...]
In my previous article, Getting Started with python for Nuke, I threw a link to the official nuke python API reference at the end, without much explanation. In this article, I’ll try to give you a bit of guidance on HOW to use that incredibly useful documentation. […]
(Edited 2021: Starting with Nuke 13, and VFXplatform 2020, Python 3 is now the standard! This article has been edited to reflect that new standard while trying to keep the original content from 2015. The code examples will be updated to be compatible with both Python 2 and 3, and I'll be putting a few [...]
