…Compositing applications such as nuke, afford us the possibility of pushing…our art around at a much easier render time than in maya.…Here's how this plays out.…For example in maya, if we render depth of field,…it's baked in that image, and while it may look wonderful.…It's also an increase in our render time, and it's very hard to tweak afterwards.…It is rendered in.…If we bring in a beauty pass, and a depth…pass here at nuke, adding on depth of field is easy.…And, we have an inner activity possible that's simply not available in Maya.…
That coupled with a smaller render time,…allows us a great deal of artistic flexibility.…So, as long as we have that flexibility built in our pipeline, we can work…fluidly in a compositing application like nuke and…really fine tune the look of our imagery.…I'll start out here in Nuke by reading or importing in…my images, clicking in the node graph and pressing r to read.…I browsed into the images folder in the chapter six nuke folder, in the…compositing folder in the exercise files, and now I'm going to read in my images.…
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4/8/2014- Creating and applying materials with luster and shine
- Creating a mental ray Daylight system
- Casting light from interior fixtures
- Lighting with sky portals
- Creating an ambient occlusion rendering pass
- Fine-tuning Final Gather and lighting
- Compositing in Nuke and After Effects
- Adding depth of field, highlights, and glow
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome37s
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Using the exercise files1m 59s
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1. Creating and Applying Materials
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Adding luster to wood5m 24s
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2. Lighting in Direct Sunlight
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3. Lighting Night and Dusk Shots
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4. Lighting with Sky Portals
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5. Lighting and Rendering Additional Passes for Compositing
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6. Compositing and Post Effects in Nuke
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Adding depth of field4m 27s
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7. Compositing and Post Effects in After Effects
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Adding depth of field2m 49s
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Conclusion
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Next steps49s
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Video: Importing the imagery and arranging the layers