Digital Tutors - Creating Beautiful Animated Sets in NUKE and Photoshop

Duration 3h 56m Level Intermediate Project Files Included

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 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.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Creating thumbnail sketches in Photoshop

3. Gathering and beginning the masking process for your images

4. Saving your masked image to use in NUKE

5. Creating other elements in Photoshop for use in your scene

6. Animating and rendering the wind turbinee in After Effects

7. Creating a rough comp of images in Photoshop

8. Setting up your read nodes and building the shot

9. Placing the cards in 3D space

10. Continuing to move he cards in 3D space

11. Color correcting the read nodes for the mountains

12. Finishing the card color correction for the mountains

13. Fixing the mask for our mountain in Photoshop

14. Positioning the set dress cards

15. Animating the camera

16. Creating grass in CINEMA4D

17. Continuing to tweak the look of the grass

18. Adding turbulence to the grass in CINEMA4D

19. Rendering the grass

20. Placing the grass in NUKE

21. Adding fog with noise

22. Finishing the color-correction for the moutains

23. Final clean-up

24. Writing out your scene