Category: Nuke

For this task we were asked to match a model to a background plate through colour grading and colour correction. I did not find this task especially difficult as the gray textures of the plane were a good starting point to match the bluish tone of the background. Through working on this task, I developed a basic understanding of the colour-grading and correction nodes, and how each colour can balanced against another, combined with brightness, gamma, highlights, and shadows. By boosting the blue hue, shadowed areas, and toning down the gamma, I attemped to bring a cool hue to both the airplane and the backdrop, whilst trying to maintain the warmness of the horizon. Through this task and others, Nukes ability to combine effective colour grading, rotoscoping, and clean-up tools is very apparent and effective. As for a composition standpoint this was a good task to work on, as there were no extreme changes in colour or lighting, which made balancing the scene simpler, and also easier to understand the toolset.

For this project we were tasked with rotoscoping the bridge area of the short clip. By using trackers the rotoscope follows the minor camera movements and shakes, which would be very difficult to match with keyframed transforms.

Overall this went relatively well, yet a little time-consuming due to the amount of points in the rotoscope, but quicker than matching the movement of the running character, which necessitated changing the shape of the rotoscope for each frame.

For this Nuke project we were tasked with rotoscoping someone running towards the camera. Here we used the Roto node and added curves and points to mask his figure throughout the short clip. This was the first time I have used any type of rotoscoping tool so understanding the process was new to me. I struggled slightly with the smaller shapes such as shoelaces because of the amount of points and interpolation but for the larger shapes I was more able to match his movements.