There is a lot you can customize in the Nuke interface using Python and many new nodes you can create with gizmos, expressions, and Blinkscript. There are also many limitations that can only be lifted by digging deeper and getting into the world of the Nuke Development Kit (a.k.a. NDK), the C++ API for Nuke. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Even though I usually like to post about Compositing, I’m doing a little exception this time. I recently had to help a student create Fur for her personal project, and I got surprised how few tutorials were present online for the Xgen/Vray Combo. Some sort of Bug prevented us to make any progress for a long [...]
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. […]
Until very recently, I thought making a Matchbox for Flame would be a long and painful task. I had looked into it a couple years ago when the documentation was very limited, and gave up without really giving it a chance. I looked into it again a couple of weeks ago, and discovered that I [...]
