Overview
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Enhance your NUKE compositing skills as you tackle a fun project. Learn how to use the software's keying, color correction, and effects tools to make a zombie rise from the grave.
Syllabus
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1. Overview of the Project
- Project overview
- Using the exercise files
- Keying the zombie
- Adding a garbage matte
- Spill suppression and color correction
- Enhancing the bloody parts
- Making the zombie eyes
- Tracking the zombie eyes
- Making the zombie fangs
- Tracking the zombie fangs
- Tracking the sky matte
- Clamping the sky
- Day-for-night color correction
- Building the headstone masks
- Tracking the headstone masks
- Timing the headstone glow animation
- Building the headstone masks
- Setting the individual stone brightness
- Adding a photorealistic falloff
- Building the headstone corner masks
- Building the zombie glow
- Positioning the zombie in the graveyard
- Creating holdouts for the hands
- Fixing the exposed arms
- Adding the front glow
- Final color correction
- Adjusting the background green glows
- Adjusting the foreground green glows
- Adding the edge blur and push-in effects
