Digital Tutors - Animating a Mountain Scene Matte Painting in Photoshop and NUKE

Duration 3h 46m Level Intermediate Project Files Included

Software used

Photoshop CS6, MODO 701, NUKE 7.0v8

What you will learn

Throughout this tutorial we will go from Photoshop to NUKE covering the creative process from a Photoshop 2D file, to a final NUKE

animation.

We will work in MODO to create basic geometry to project our layers. Then we will go through the 3D scene creation process in NUKE

arranging our scene and adding some extra animated spice to bring it all to life.

1. Introduction and project overview 01:12

2. Starting with the document size set up 10:01

3. Adding the mountains and sky layers 10:39

4. Setting up the castle and masking 10:46

5. Detailing the castle mask 11:21

6. Finalizing the castle mask and primary shading 07:44

7. Setting up foreground rocks and the central mountain layer 10:10

8. Creating a new castle dome layer 09:45

9. Using the Clone tool and refining edges 09:15

10. Refining the layer edges 10:43

11. Detailing each layer mask 05:35

12. Shading and correcting the layers 07:35

13. Shading the appearance of the left mountain 07:16

14. Adding new mountain elements 08:03

15. Finalizing the shading of the image 10:14

16. Bringing our image into MODO 11:56

17. Finishing the foreground geometry 06:00

18. Adjusting our geometry and preparing it for export 09:31

19. Exporting the geometry 07:13

20. Preparing the NUKE scene 09:02

21. Setting up the 3D scene 08:27

22. Setting up the castle and other cards 10:00

23. Fine tuning geometry placement and animating the camera 08:42

24. Final layer and geometry placement 08:43

25. Editing geometry and adding extra elements 09:36

26. Color balance and final rendering 07:04