From the course: Compositing an Alien Portal in NUKE

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Creating the inner ring animation

Creating the inner ring animation - Nuke Tutorial

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Creating the inner ring animation

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- The portal animation consists of three parts, the inner ring, an outer ring, and the inner portal city. Let's start by doing the inner ring animation. We're going to need some more space here, so let's cruise over here, bring my viewer up here. Let's start by adding a Reformat node. Come over to the Transform tab, grab a Reformat, hook up our viewer. Let's set the Reformat for 512 squared, that'll be big enough for all of our animation. Close that. Next, we'll need a Noise node. So, with the Reformat selected, we'll go to the Drawing tab, grab a Noise. Okay now, the settings for this Noise are going to be a size of, let's say, how about 15. We don't want the default Fractal Brownian Motion type, we want to use the Turbulence type. And in order to get our lovely thin threads, we want to invert, and now you can see if I gamma down the viewer, you can see how we get these lovely filaments, that's what I'm after. Gamma viewer back. We'll also need some animation, so let's jump to frame…

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