From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film

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Shuffle node and scene setup

Shuffle node and scene setup

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Shuffle node and scene setup

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- [Instructor] Now to get good at something, it's important to repeat it, and in this case we're going to try to import our PSD file in again. This time we've renamed the PSD file, so let's do that. Sometimes when you've got more than one, you will come up as a sequence so you can click that and turn that off. Let's pick 08_02 this time and open that, and click on it, press one, break out the layers and look at that, lo and behold. Now let's go to these merge nodes and see what they do. The first one mode is the sky over the far backgrounds, and in the following, merge the layers over the top of each other. You can see there's our mist layer and so on and so forth, getting slightly darker until we get to our closest most layer. Now when working in new compositing it's almost imperative to have two screens. One of your screens should be color correct. Now that's so that you can have this viewer on the color correct screen and you can be working in your nodes and properties on the other…

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