Overview
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Join acclaimed instructor Steve Wright to learn how to create an otherworldly alien portal with NUKE, and discover valuable compositing, camera tracking, and lighting techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Compositing the mantis
- Adding the mantis shadows
- Pillar holdout matte
- Camera tracking preparations
- Camera tracking
- Placing the line-up card
- Creating the portal ray animation
- 3D render of the portal rays
- Adding gravity waves
- Creating the inner ring animation
- Creating the outer ring animation
- Adding the portal city
- 3D render of the portal effect
- Trimming the portal to the ground
- Creating a high-density point cloud
- Lining up the pillar card
- Creating a stabilized preview
- Creating the pillar masks
- Adding the pillar lighting
- Adding the ground glow
- Creating the flashing light animation
- Flashing light on the mantis
- Animating the flashes
- Final mantis color and glow effects
- Adding the blue ceiling light
- Final touches
