Category: Advanced & Experimental

For this task we were asked to remove the green screen from the actor plate, as well as any film noise or green despill. We were shown several ways to accomplish this in Nuke, including KeyMix, Primatte, Ultimatte, and by using gizmo nodes.

For this weeks Nuke project, we were tasked with compositing a rendered car plate onto our choice of three environments. We also had to colour match several different channels to incorporate the car further, trying to match the tone and colour scheme set by the surroundings.

This task was interesting as lighting and colour grading are some of the processes which I most enjoy working with in composition, so the tools in Nuke were quite impactful when editing a scene with ability to match white and black points, grading each individual channel, and balancing shadows, as well as much more.

For this weeks Nuke task, we were given a short video plate with tracker points, and our job was to track the scene using 3D Camera Tracking using Nuke’s 3D toolset. We learned how to import geometry and work in Nuke’s 3D editor using Cards, Axis’, and setting origins by selecting Camera Track Points to identify ground planes and setting grids. We also used the LensDistort node to correct distortion between the camera and plate sequence. I also wanted to try importing 3D geometry into the scene, so I exported a base model from Zbrush and imported the model into the script.

For the next part of this task, we were asked to remove the trackers in the clip with the use of Rotopaint, Roto, and 3D Camera Tracking.