Creating Beautiful Animated Sets in NUKE and Photoshop
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process of masking photographs and creating an animated set with them in NUKE. Software required: NUKE 8.0, Photoshop CC 14.1.2, After Effects CC 12.1.0.168, CINEMA 4D R15.
What you'll learn
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process of masking photographs and creating an animated set with them in NUKE. We start by creating a value sketch of what we want the shot to look like, and then we'll begin the masking process for the photos that fit in with the features that we made in the sketch. After preparing the images, we bring them into NUKE where we create a 3D setup that will support realistic parallax. We also composite moving grass in NUKE that was created using the hair system in CINEMA 4D. This tutorial is a mini-pipeline of the steps you need to complete for creating an animated set from start to finish. By following along, you can learn more about how this process works and ways that you can save time. By the end of this course, you'll know how to use CINEMA 4D hair to make grass, how to quickly mask images in Photoshop, and how to create an animated set in NUKE. Software required: NUKE 8.0, Photoshop CC 14.1.2, After Effects CC 12.1.0.168, CINEMA 4D R15.
Table of contents
- Creating Thumbnail Sketches in Photoshop 12m
- Gathering and Beginning the Masking Process for Your Images 11m
- Saving Your Masked Image to Use in NUKE 6m
- Creating Other Elements in Photoshop for Use in Your Scene in NUKE 15m
- Animating and Rendering the Wind Turbine in After Effects 8m
- Creating a Rough Comp of Images in Photoshop 14m
- Setting up Your Read Nodes and Building the Shot 9m
- Placing the Cards in 3D Space 13m
- Continuing to Move the Cards in 3D Space 10m
- Color-correcting the Read Nodes for the Mountains 14m
- Finishing the Card Color-correction for the Mountains 10m
- Fixing the Mask for Our Mountain in Photoshop 4m
- Positioning the Set Dress Cards 7m
- Animating the Camera 10m
- Creating Grass in CINEMA 4D 12m
- Continuing to Tweak the Look of the Grass 13m
- Adding Turbulence to the Grass in CINEMA 4D 6m
- Rendering the Grass 5m
- Placing the Grass in NUKE 14m
- Adding Fog with Noise 13m
- Finishing the Color-correction for the Mountains 12m
- Final Cleanup 12m
- Writing out Your Scene 4m
About the author
Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more