From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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Animating a GridWarp

Animating a GridWarp

In this video, we'll see how to use keyframe animation, to animate a grid warp. Then take a close look, at how to warp one image over another, and line it up with the background plate. We'll start, with keyframe animation. Playhead is on frame one, by default, keyframing is on all the time, this button right here. So let's say on frame one, I pull the chin up a little bit, then, I will jump out here to frame 50, and I'll pull the chin down and, give it a little twist, then I'll jump to the last frame, I like to use the jump to last frame button, and I'll pull it up to here. I now have a keyframe animation that plays very smoothly. I'm going to stop that, and jump to frame one. Of course, I can jump to any of the keyframes I want, with the keyframe forward or, the keyframe backward controls. And I can also copy and paste control points. So, for example, here I am on frame one. You see where the chin is? I jump to the last frame, the chin is way up there. Let's say I want the first…

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