Category: Nuke

In this week’s class, we got extra material to work with. Gonzalo gave us a nuke file where we got an example of the different techniques we did over the last few weeks. He gave us this video where he removed and added different parts. On the left, you see a word added on the heater, in the top middle the emergency exit gets removed and on the lockers you see the yellow poster getting removed. and lastly, a paper on the board gets removed. I removed the only paper that is still on the wall and added a different poster on the lockers. In the video, you will see these changes happening. Even though we got given these different tools to erase or add different things, I still had a littlest of a difficult time. I feel that over these weeks we learned a lot of different things and I feel myself growing in the understanding of this new program I learn to work with called nuke. Even though I learned a lot I still feel that I am not nearly as good as I want to be. I have to practice more of these kinds of things so I can create whatever I like.

For this week we had to work with 2.5D tracking so we could follow the area the poster was going while the camera was also panning around. This was quite the same technique as the tracking we did to the phone in an earlier class. There was a difference in this one by the pole going in front of the poster. So this class we kind of relearned the correct way of planar tracking and adding an image to this track. For the pole, we did a simple rotoscope and connected this to the planar tracking so the pole will follow the camera movement and still overlay the extra image we inserted in this video. I struggled a little with the planar tracker here, you can see this if you look closely at the bottom right corner of the added poster. You can see it moving differently from how it is supposed to look.

I have started to create my own composition for the hot air balloon festival assignment. I added different elements to see what would happen to the composition and to make it a bit more interesting. for now, I decided to go with the extra element of having sea animals in the sky. The idea of sea animals moving around in a different place than the sea is something I enjoy seeing very much. This idea started from the music video of Coldplay, in this video they have multiple sea animals going through the sky. It starts off with a sea turtle going through a subway station, and after that you see big whales going through the sky. I love the video for all its abnormalities and differences in sizes, see below images of these animals shown in the Coldplay Up & Up music video.

There is still a lot that I have to change, like the color is not matching with all the elements and I also want to add particles to the sea animals as they swim through the sky. The hot air balloons I use are the once I made during the Maya classes, everybody had to make one of these hot air balloons. I still plan on remaking this hot air balloon so I can look up better references and sketch my own hot air balloon. so looking at this image now I still have a lot to do to make is more like the way I want it to look.

This is the first sketch (layout) of how I want my hot air balloon festival to look. So the template is made out of 3 different sea animals swimming with the 3 hot air balloons in the sky. I also added an extra element in the back, this is a building that is supposed to get destroyed by the orca in the background. this is where I want to use the particles for to create a connection between the orca and the building. It is a video that I found that already had the building breaking now I only need to make it so the timing is right and recoiler it to fit the rest. also, the building looks a bit lonely by itself so I feel the need to add extra buildings so it will look more like a city.

For this week’s Nuke, we got some homework next to the hot air balloon festival. Again we had to rotoscope some areas in a video given to us. But rather than trying to correct every camera movement step by step, we got to use the planar tracking tool. We used this tool two times, First, we used it to cancel out the movements that the camera makes (as seen in the video) and after we rotoscope everything and put in the correct material, we put the movement back with a different baked planar tracker. I added my own Instagram to the phone, so whenever you press play you will see the person scrolling through my Instagram post.

This week we learned about coloring. We got shown different nodes in nuke that give you the ability to change certain colors in an image. As an assessment, we have to change the left image so that the plain and the background match the overall composition. I have used the Color correct node and the grade node to get the right airplane image. I still have to learn a lot about how to do this the way I would want to do this. for now, I feel like I just made the airplane and background darker to make them fit in with each other. It works but is missing a lot. So I really want to grow in this part of nuke.

In last week’s class, we learned how to rotoscope, for this week everybody had to have a finished rotoscope of the running man over the bridge. In this class we learned an extra step to rotoscoping, the rotoscope tracker: this is an easy way of rotoscoping a specific area of a video. This technique of rotoscoping is mainly used for larger areas that move simultaneously. So for one of this week’s assessments, we had to track the rotoscope of the bridge. For this, I made a few different tracks that connect to certain parts of the bridge. So just like the running man, this was not rotoscoped in one roto. This was a fairly easy assessment since the movement of the camera was not a large amount and we got introduced to the tracker rotoscope.

After the assessment of the running man over the bridge, we got introduced to the beginning of the hot air balloon festival. This will be an assessment that would combine with the hot air balloon we are making in Maya. For the beginning of this project, we started with what we have already learned. So we started with a rotoscope from the mountain, this is where we could put the hot air balloon both in front and behind the mountain.

During the Maya classes, we have been busy with creating a hot air balloon for this hot air balloon festival. The end result is the purple balloon shown in the image below, for me this balloon is still the first version since it is made while I hurried to follow the class. But looking at the rotoscope I have done for the mountain I think this will work very good in my hot air balloon festival.

Rotoscope animation describes the process of creating animated sequences by tracing over live-action footage frame by frame. Though it can be time-consuming, rotoscoping allows animators to create lifelike characters who move just like people in the real world.

For nuke, we now started to learn about rotoscoping. In class, we learn about rotoscoping and how to translate this into the nuke file. We got a file delivered in which we had to make the rotoscope, this is a file of a man running over a bridge. While looking at the video you might think that it would be easy since the camera doesn’t seem to move by itself. but if you look really closely you will see that it shifts a bit to the right.

We got the assessment to firstly rotoscope the man running towards us. He showed us how to start with the basic Rotonode, I made 5 different Rotoscopes of the man running. This is because a lot of his body moves in different ways which, if you would do it in one rotoscope, would make it a very difficult assessment. So I did the 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 feet, torso, and head separately so I could also jump from frame 20 to frame 40 and it would still look quite nice. this way I only needed to adjust the Rotoscope a little bit. The rotoscope, in my opinion, could have been done a little better but it is mostly for me to understand how the tool works. For my first time doing a rotoscope, I think I quite get the hang of how the tool works.

As an assessment, we had to do about the city, and I choose to be more specific in a category: people and nightlife. A city is made through the people living in it. People make the city during the day you will see many different people on the streets. but mostly people that are in a hurry, in their car, or walking to their destination.

Since I am from the Netherlands I don’t know too much about London life and especially London nightlife. a lot of people really are alive during the nighttime. they go out, go clubbing, and do other fun things with their friends. You see a lot of different types of people during the nightlife which I find very interesting. In this video, you see a lot of the nightlife of the city, the city in the dark. But if I were to reflect back on it I would more directly make the video about the people. I regret not asking for a close-up of these unique people. because in my mind every individual makes a place.

Time is an illusion created by the human mind, We created this term time to define life. As I think that if we were immortal, the term life wouldn’t exist and we didn’t have to live by the design of time.

As I show in my pictures I have different pictures of how my mind defines time in a moment. The top two pictures show how something from it’s little seed to become a big leaf and then decay back in to the earth, this all as time passes by.

The third and fourth picture shows how many humans define our surroundings by different tools. as time passes by many humans have created different art forms on the walls as for year ago it could have looked totally different.

The last 2 pictures are related to time passing by through a day. In the evening somethings will look different then during the day.