This tutorial is very good! As a flame artist, I just realized that Nuke is really painful to (learn and) use with all those extra nodes needed just to complete certain operations (premult, transforms, etc.) It's the industry standard and yet it's not that intuitive - just my opinion. Great tutorial though. I hope through your channel I could learn and understand how to use it effectively. Thanks!
Thanks Bill! I use Flame a bit at work and feel the same way about going from Nuke to Flame! I think a lot of it is less about the software and more just about what you learn first. After that anything different feels odd
Kudos for demonstrating the concepts of "rotoing thru occlusions" and "one roto node for each roto layer". Specifically, you roto'ed the pick and roto'd the shape as if it wasnt covered by fingers. And you separated the roto of the pick from the roto of the pick "occlusions"/ the fingers. These two techniques give the Compositor more edge treatment flexibility with multiple mattes versus many tutorials who teach the roto artist to do the subtraction in their roto. I also am a believer of creating moblur thru Nuke's roto node. I would choose some different techniques on applying the tracking, rotoing without connection to the plate, and creating roto overlay checks but this video has some valuable foundational techniques.
Thanks Howard. I know the basics but to be honest I skipped a lot of the stuff junior artists do in traditional training and went straight into compositing at the studio I learned at so I never really had to get very good at it!
@AlfieVaughan Understood. There are definitely different approaches to roto influenced by how long you roto. For compositing, anything goes to make it work. But for roto specialists, we have some more structured guidelines. Thanks again for your posts. I will forward this to my artists.
Edge blur is destructive. It takes the colour value and of pixel on the edge of the alpha and spreads it out more. So you end up with a flat colour around the edge. It's good and I use it after premults sometimes to soften keys etc but it wouldn't be the right thing to use here
You'll work a lot faster and efficiently if you stop using bezier and use B splines instead, unless you need cusped for hard surface objects. A lot less steps needed to get a consistent result.
hi, love ur videos! im just starting learn vfx and hveone question what is the difference between mocha boris and nuke software also the workflow itself? would appreciate it if you could spare some time to answer it. thank you~
Thanks! Mocha is specifically for tracking. It's very good. Much better than the tracking tools in Nuke. But it doesn't do all the other stuff. Nuke is a full compositing software
Hey bro how are you doing I love all your tutorials just came across your channel now and I’ve subscribed and turned on post notification, could you please upload Nuke tutorials from beginning to advance please
I'm afraid at this time I was only uploading the blender project files on my Patreon. It wasn't until a few months after this video I started making the nuke scripts and footage available too
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It's the same sort of effect but I wouldn't recommend feathering the roto to take the motion blur. It's quicker and easier to let Nuke do it for you. Unless it's just not working. Then you could do it manually
These videos were made before I started putting the footage on Patreon I'm afraid. I only started it for more recent videos. Before this I was just uploading Blender projects
That's more advanced. This is just the basics of roto. There's no specific amount to zoom for the best results. I think you just naturally learn how detailed you need to go when you start working with the roto a bit. It also varies depending on the shot
Hi Alfie, although i draw a mask, connect it to the viewer node, when I press "a" rather than showing only selected are white, it shows full screen white. But whenever I hit replace on properties it only shows the selected area white. Also when I don't connect it to the read note I don't see anything white if I press a even if I activate replace on properties. Why do you think this could happen?
Yes that's correct. That's how nuke works you're not doing anything wrong. When connected without replace on it combines the drawn alpha with anything else above it. When you hit replace it overwrites it all and just uses the mask
You need to either unplug it from what's above and have it on its own so there's no alpha going in or tick the box called "replace" which will remove any existing alpha
