From the course: Compositing a Sci-Fi Force Field in NUKE

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The door animation

The door animation

- In our last movie we had cut the door hole in our hallway and now we're ready to animate the doors opening and closing. So with our viewer attached to both these premults you can see I've got the isolated left and right doors. So let's start animating them. First thing I want to do is composite them over the background so we can see what's going on. So I'll select this premult and add a merge node. And well put the left door over the right door for now. And then let's add another merge node here. And I'll hook it up to the hallway that had the door cut out. So put that up here. And then we take our two doors and composite them here and we're ready to start animating our doors. So to start, let's select this premult and add a transform node by typing "t" on the keyboard. Now, these doors are not square to the camera. There's a perspective built into them. So we cannot just animate them sliding left and right. We're going to have to scale them towards the vanishing point. So to do…

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