Blender + Nuke | A.I Enhanced Digital Matte Painting Workflow

Learn to use A.I as a tool in your Digital Matte Painting workflow. This video explores new methods for creating a digital matte painting of a cliff - extremely quickly - by enhancing details in a low resolution sculpt asset.
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00:00 Intro and Explanation
01:01 VR Sculpt Blockout
04:25 Lighting + LowRes Texture
07:03 Krea.Ai
09:37 Magnific.Ai Upscale
10:54 Re-Project in Nuke
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[@paoloricaldone6273]

This is exactly what I was looking for. More contents about AI images uses in Nuke workflow are welcome!! I have almost all your courses and I always look at those. Good job.

[@lumiin3d]

This is amazing. Excited for the Blender + Nuke workshop

[@basiliasTG]

Amazing! I would love to see more stuff and courses with nuke/blender workflow!

[@Jasmine-cn4wc]

feels like a game-changer for matte painting🔥thanks for sharing!

[@tryptamedia7375]

More of this content! Youre the only one really putting stuff like this out

[@engerek3024]

Thank you. This is so helpful for new era with A.I.

[@ImReadyD151]

Man I’ve been waiting for a video that shows how to use geo in nuke! You’re always coming in clutch

[@RonnieMirands]

I´ve been doing something similar but using Krita and Fusion. Just using image planes. Of course if the camera moves too much, i will go to geo like you made. But in general, SD does a good job in matching light and colors.

[@GabrielMendezC]

"After Effects it's the wrong tool for great CG Comp". Love that phrase 😂 Totally Agree.

[@bliccer9319]

Great great content. So cute to see how you talk and move your hands while talking. Proper POV lecturer mode =)

[@FetaleKetones]

Yeeeesss finally thank you sir

[@FetaleKetones]

You are a genius!!!!

[@Gireshahid33]

Awesome

[@natemosemann7628]

Really cool thought process and makes me want to learn Blender. Also kinda looks like that shot from Alien Covenant with the lasers and stuff!

[@CompositingAcademy]

I did reference alien covenant! I worked on that movie as well. Ridley scott is a beast and loves smokey scenes - which I've been studying a lot recently just because I've been filming various smoke elements. Although the lasers I played them up a bit here probably slightly overdoing it on purpose cause it looked cooler, wouldn't be very stealthy with these lasers haha

[@natemosemann7628]

@@CompositingAcademy Cool! Haha well the lasers look really cool regardless. I also love adding interactive smoke to everything, but sometimes I feel low skill cause it can hide my mistakes and whatnot haha. Anyways, much respect.

[@otisfuse]

Crazy to see what can be done with AI

[@JayronimoFilms]

This was a really interesting approach! Did you still end up rendering out sequences of other elements such as the floor and puddles out of blender to accurately capture the reflections?

[@CompositingAcademy]

Yep! The floor is rendered out so all the specular still is there with moving reflections. If I wanted to be super picky you could re-project the A.I in blender for the reflections in the ground, but since it's almost the same color / glossy reflection you can't really tell. Definitely this approach wouldn't work on a super specular surface - but neither would a normal DMP workflow.

[@JayronimoFilms]

Gotcha, I totally agree. I think the AI did a really good job creating detail on the cliffside, but I think the floor and puddles had plenty of great detail as they were, its a great strategy combining both of these methods for sure

[@twistedjourney]

Super cool workflow! Does the new course and techniques apply to Unreal Engine 5 as well?

[@CompositingAcademy]

Thank you! I think it will apply, nothing is really software specific, although the workshop does show some other techniques around building 3d assets quickly. Usually unreal is paired with maya or blender if you need to build an asset. However, all of the comp portion which is still the primary focus of the workshop definitely will work on unreal renders, and the assets all can be used too. It’s really geared toward CG filmmakers or people doing full cg projects who want to make their stuff not look like video games purely out of the renders. Cheers!

[@twistedjourney]

@@CompositingAcademy thank you. I will definitely pick this course up, I’m shifting my content towards 3D now using Unreal engine and Blender with mixture of completely in CG and live action and CG

[@albertneuteng9862]

Amazing! Is it possible to project texture to deforming model? I'm new to Nuke. For example, I make a character speaking using metahuman,then enhance the details on face by AI. Can I project the AI result to my animation face?

[@CompositingAcademy]

It's possible! Look into Position pass projections on nukepedia, I believe there are a few gizmos and tutorials for it

[@fraserwoodhouse4606]

Cool wotkflow, thanks for sharing. Some honest feedback from a beginner is it felt like you skipped over the useful bits and rambled over repetitively in other areas

[@CompositingAcademy]

Thanks! I agree, sometimes the pacing is hard to get right on my end, trying to improve on various aspects with it

[@chrisnrs354]

please show how you did the lazers

[@CompositingAcademy]

hey chris, there's a bunch of techniques involved there, they can be found in the course if you're interested! Cheers

[@roadstudiosproductions]

really want that shot for our movie tutorial please for blender and after effects

[@ImReadyD151]

Do yourself a favor and learn Nuke. Trust me you’ll never go back

[@roadstudiosproductions]

@@ImReadyD151 oh okay

[@luten4824]

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[@aegisgfx]

Blender has really robust sculpting tools, you don't have to use Adobe products for anything...

[@CompositingAcademy]

true! I just like doing it in VR because it's easier / more fun to place things. But you can totally do this in blender

[@aegisgfx]

@@CompositingAcademy gotcha

[@aegisgfx]

@@CompositingAcademy you can also check out a stable diffusion tool called stable projectorz, does something similar to what you're doing here but it's far more powerful.