When I first started playing with Nuke's Python API around 2012, one of the first things I made was a tool to align nodes in the node graph. In fact, I wasn't the only one, and a quick look on Nukepedia will reveal dozens and dozens of implementations of alignments tools and tools to download. [...]
After 7 years away, I am moving back to Vancouver. This was the decision my wife and I made, after much deliberation and pros-and-cons lists. While the few people over there who I've stayed in touch with frequently knew about it, the vast majority of my past colleagues did not, and as the date was [...]
The recent release of Nuke 13 brought along the update from Python 2 to Python 3. After all, Python 2 has been officially dead since January 2020, and Python 3 has been around since 2008, so that update was due. Python 3 comes with quite a few improvements and a few changes that can easily [...]
After doing a little bit of thinking about UI in part 1 of this article, it would be great to start producing some actual pictures of stars. As I often do in my posts, this isn't a tutorial that gives you the final answer (though you could skip ahead and grab the final result), but [...]
One task compositors are often asked to complete is to create a starry night sky. Whether you are working on an Epic Space Odyssey or the newest Rom-Com miniseries, you might be asked to sprinkle some stars in the sky. Some directors are a bit pickier than others, and you might be asked to ensure [...]
Update June 2020: Version 1 has been released, and this article edited to reflect some of the changes. Added text will be in italics, and removed text will just be crossed. Original: Almost 2 years ago, Mathieu Goulet-Aubin released a set of tools to work with vectors and matrices in nuke on Nukepedia. Having my [...]
This post if for the artists who have been dipping their toes in the water of Python development and are considering taking it to the next level. We will cover some of the points that differ between an artist/amateur level of development and an entry TD level. I’m covering quite a few subjects in this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
