Basics Of Rotoscoping | NUKE FOR NOOBS!

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[@harshitrao8729]

My brain just exploded Information overloaded

[@AlfieVaughan]

😂😂

[@ar12.]

Legend you explained something in 8 minutes better then most 30 minute videos do always helpful for uni.

[@AlfieVaughan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kyleheilig255]

Alfie: "I know what you're thinking" Me: "nah" *proceeds to tell me exactly what I'm thinking Me: "Get out of my head"

[@AlfieVaughan]

Hahahaha 😂

[@billkage4279]

This tutorial is very good! As a flame artist, I just realized that Nuke is really painful to (learn and) use with all those extra nodes needed just to complete certain operations (premult, transforms, etc.) It's the industry standard and yet it's not that intuitive - just my opinion. Great tutorial though. I hope through your channel I could learn and understand how to use it effectively. Thanks!

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks Bill! I use Flame a bit at work and feel the same way about going from Nuke to Flame! I think a lot of it is less about the software and more just about what you learn first. After that anything different feels odd

[@ewilsonalva805]

wow you just saved my life. literally a recap of 3 years of uni in 8 mins XD

[@sajidulhasan2027]

Brilliant for learning several short codes

[@MohamedAlaaEzzat]

very useful, do more with complected shots please

[@deep8673]

This was so helpful, thank you so much !!!

[@AlfieVaughan]

No problem!

[@HowardCabalfin]

Kudos for demonstrating the concepts of "rotoing thru occlusions" and "one roto node for each roto layer". Specifically, you roto'ed the pick and roto'd the shape as if it wasnt covered by fingers. And you separated the roto of the pick from the roto of the pick "occlusions"/ the fingers. These two techniques give the Compositor more edge treatment flexibility with multiple mattes versus many tutorials who teach the roto artist to do the subtraction in their roto. I also am a believer of creating moblur thru Nuke's roto node. I would choose some different techniques on applying the tracking, rotoing without connection to the plate, and creating roto overlay checks but this video has some valuable foundational techniques.

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks Howard. I know the basics but to be honest I skipped a lot of the stuff junior artists do in traditional training and went straight into compositing at the studio I learned at so I never really had to get very good at it!

[@HowardCabalfin]

@AlfieVaughan Understood. There are definitely different approaches to roto influenced by how long you roto. For compositing, anything goes to make it work. But for roto specialists, we have some more structured guidelines. Thanks again for your posts. I will forward this to my artists.

[@elijahmurphy4980]

Thank you for the simple explanation.

[@AlfieVaughan]

Glad you liked it

[@mahen9394]

excellent well explained. Thank you

[@AlfieVaughan]

Glad you liked it!

[@robvfx1711]

very helpful tutorial thanks!!

[@AlfieVaughan]

No problem!

[@rafaelpozo4307]

Thanks, you 're welcome Regards Rafael

[@ronydey2696]

Great 👍

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks!

[@sandyjy8792]

hi, love ur videos! im just starting learn vfx and hveone question what is the difference between mocha boris and nuke software also the workflow itself? would appreciate it if you could spare some time to answer it. thank you~

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks! Mocha is specifically for tracking. It's very good. Much better than the tracking tools in Nuke. But it doesn't do all the other stuff. Nuke is a full compositing software

[@whistler9726]

Hey bro upload fast plz, my whole career is waiting for your videos

[@AlfieVaughan]

Haha! There's one coming every few days

[@whistler9726]

@@AlfieVaughan gg

[@hitlafilms4631]

Hey bro how are you doing I love all your tutorials just came across your channel now and I’ve subscribed and turned on post notification, could you please upload Nuke tutorials from beginning to advance please

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks a lot! Yes I've already uploaded a few. There will probably be more at some point

[@hitlafilms4631]

@@AlfieVaughan ok cool, thanks so much I can’t wait to see

[@MBSer]

super

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks!

[@karizmaharjan7882]

i see how u are doing but does it make any difference in adding motion blur and extending the feather of the the roto

[@AlfieVaughan]

It's the same sort of effect but I wouldn't recommend feathering the roto to take the motion blur. It's quicker and easier to let Nuke do it for you. Unless it's just not working. Then you could do it manually

[@CanberkSezer]

Hi Alfie, although i draw a mask, connect it to the viewer node, when I press "a" rather than showing only selected are white, it shows full screen white. But whenever I hit replace on properties it only shows the selected area white. Also when I don't connect it to the read note I don't see anything white if I press a even if I activate replace on properties. Why do you think this could happen?

[@AlfieVaughan]

Yes that's correct. That's how nuke works you're not doing anything wrong. When connected without replace on it combines the drawn alpha with anything else above it. When you hit replace it overwrites it all and just uses the mask

[@cristianobregon3583]

what are the keys to see in alpha and also what are the keys to go back to regular viewing?

[@AlfieVaughan]

Press A once to look at the alpha and press it again to toggle back

[@ShotReverse]

Hey wanted to follow along with the project files, but can't seem to find them on your patreon anymore. Are they still up?

[@AlfieVaughan]

I'm afraid at this time I was only uploading the blender project files on my Patreon. It wasn't until a few months after this video I started making the nuke scripts and footage available too

[@kgdllc]

Its Nuke supposed to be more efficient than AE? I guess the all have their bonuses.

[@AlfieVaughan]

It depends what you're doing but for stuff like multipass compositing where to have EXRs with a lot of channels then it's much faster

[@THECODGENIUS]

i dont even use nuke but i found this tutorial helpful xD

[@AlfieVaughan]

Hahaha! There's some good generic tips in there 😉

[@MysticMinds]

We need more Please :')

[@AlfieVaughan]

There will be more coming soon :)

[@MysticMinds]

@@AlfieVaughan can't wait sir , thank you for taking out time to reply

[@tmadms]

You'll work a lot faster and efficiently if you stop using bezier and use B splines instead, unless you need cusped for hard surface objects. A lot less steps needed to get a consistent result.

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks for the advice Tim. I use both but personally I just prefer bezier curves. I came from after effects so I guess it's just what I'm used to!

[@convonation4644]

Hey Alfie!! shouldn't we be worried about hardcore and softcores while setting things up ? and how much should we zoom to get things correct ?

[@AlfieVaughan]

That's more advanced. This is just the basics of roto. There's no specific amount to zoom for the best results. I think you just naturally learn how detailed you need to go when you start working with the roto a bit. It also varies depending on the shot

[@convonation4644]

@@AlfieVaughan thanks :)

[@lockinvfx]

02:23 how about using EdgeBlur and not Blur for the piece roto

[@AlfieVaughan]

Edge blur is destructive. It takes the colour value and of pixel on the edge of the alpha and spreads it out more. So you end up with a flat colour around the edge. It's good and I use it after premults sometimes to soften keys etc but it wouldn't be the right thing to use here

[@user-rq2lv6ln5b]

Hello .I use the roto node to create an alpha but it just wont do it. When I press A the whole image remains white. Could you please help?

[@AlfieVaughan]

You need to either unplug it from what's above and have it on its own so there's no alpha going in or tick the box called "replace" which will remove any existing alpha

[@user-rq2lv6ln5b]

@@AlfieVaughan Thanks Alfie

[@rafaelpozo4307]

Ok good job...! Are you Richard Vaughan's son from Texas? A Master English Teacher who lives in Madrid, Spain since over 45 years ago.....? Regards Rafael Pozo from Madrid Spain 🇪🇦

[@AlfieVaughan]

Thanks! No relation to Richard Vaughan haha

[@ANigerianPrince]

I don't think this footage file is available on your patreon.

[@AlfieVaughan]

These videos were made before I started putting the footage on Patreon I'm afraid. I only started it for more recent videos. Before this I was just uploading Blender projects

[@OnemenaOfurhie]

@@AlfieVaughan No worries. I shot something similar myself and I followed along. I love the tutorial. Going to the next on the list now.

[@pranjalkotwal4529]

Aye, I have the same google wallpaper....

[@AlfieVaughan]

It's a nice one for late at night because it's not blindingly bright!

[@ayantikkundu]

Can Nuke even run on Mac as good as it does on Windows ?

[@AlfieVaughan]

Yep! It runs fine on windows, Mac and linux

[@ayantikkundu]

@@AlfieVaughan Thanks man 🙏

[@vfxhealing]

Pin point

[@faisalahmadkhan1181]

Sir! Why you don't use After Effect.

[@AlfieVaughan]

Because nuke is used in almost all professional VFX studios in the world

[@faisalahmadkhan1181]

@@AlfieVaughan Sir Can i get Your Email address??

[@AlfieVaughan]

Sorry I don't give out my email! You can contact me on discord or Instagram or just in the comments

[@faisalahmadkhan1181]

@@AlfieVaughan Ok Sir I wanna ask something about blender on Instagram