How to make a CG shot in Nuke and Redshift - Dawn of Titans Loki Production Deconstruct

This week I Deconstruct the Dawn of Titans Dead game trailer (Loki shot). Enjoy.
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[@LibreLobo]

These videos are never too long! Great explanation and great breakdown. Thank you!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks​, glad you like them.

[@Belfrahn]

My god this is THE BEST multipass CGI compositing video I've seen in all my life! Just WOW! Thankyou! Obrigado!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks mate, glad you like it. Make sure to check out my other videos and maybe subscribe in Patreon. Thanks again.

[@joaovictorcunhadesouza3212]

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Thank you, Hugo! This one was awesome!

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, thanks so much

[@ericprochnow7584]

I Love these detailled breakdowns of your projects - fantastic work on this one 💪🏼 thank you so much for sharing all of this for free

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, glad you like them. Thanks for the kind words. If you want you could support the channel in Patreon: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@morrisabramian2276]

great stuff ! so glad that i found your channel

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you, so glad you like it.

[@sohamdutta9612]

Superb explaination i love your content

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching.

[@wnebe]

Amazing experience of compositing, wanna sse more same videos. THX!

[@lameiraangelo]

The frost effect was amazing. Loved it.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching. Yes, I had a lot of o fun making that shot. Maybe consider supporting the channel on Patreon for $1? www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@mjparent222]

Very elaborate ! and well presented. Thank you.

[@MHTutorials3D]

Superb video Hugo !

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. You are too kind.

[@satyajeet8686]

oh I love this long length case study videos. Helps to learn things easily as a non-pro. I finally got the fog occluding the geometry with depth pass, which i didn't get in previous shortlength walk-through of comps. Thanks

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked it.

[@allandm]

Meu Deus. I really love how u get so much done in Nuke. Thanks a for sharing !!

[@HugosDesk]

No problem. Glad you liked it.

[@Mirahor]

Thank you, learned a lot of technics!

[@jussivalter]

Speechless..

[@GianfrancoDAlessandro]

Ohhh very nice video!

[@sethweber2224]

Amazing. Although I am budgetarily restricted to Fusion, you have the most thorough and comprehensive compositing tutorials/breakdowns. The technics are for the most part universal, but really helpful for learning "how" to think. Also, they are fun to watch! Everything is lit so well I just want to look around at everything on your desk haha!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for you kindness. I thought of making a video about my desk since I have so much equipment on my office. You think I should? Btw Please consider supporting the channel for $1 Per month in Patreon so I can continue to make these videos. Thank you: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@offshot1st]

Always enjoy these, really wish I could get into this full time

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks​, You mean KZbin?

[@offshot1st]

Hugo's Desk I mean compositing :') Finished my degree but my reel is a bit lacking aha

[@mikkelmelby]

thanks for going pretty in depth, new to 3d but u make it easier :D! keep it up

[@stainedart1696]

This is great! Im learning alot from your chanel

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching my friend

[@chrystielira6044]

pretty cool ! tnx for sharing !

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, thank you for watching. Consider subscribing, I have a lot more video coming soon.

[@monocore]

That. Was. Amazing.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks mate

[@FURIOUS_KAIN]

I love your content man, always a blast to watch it, I also had a question, is it also possible to do the the light form the sword with a colormatrix?

[@lewiswright4038]

Thanks making a video explaining why this is brilliant way to break out CG renders with AoV ie rebuild it like the 3D renderer would including raws aovs I've tried and failed to explain the infinite benefits and flexibility of going this way instead of taking something out grading it and putting it back in 😅 you can even fix a lot of things here to that's backed into the beauty

[@marceloali5696]

good work ! bro, hello from Bolivia.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks, mate, Bolivia? Cool man. Never been in Bolivia. Maybe one day. Be sure to watch my other videos.

[@farzadrabei1261]

Thank you

[@rdoetjes]

Hugo, I love your deconstructies. And even learn some new little nick nacks, that I’m like: “wow, that’s clever I need to remember that”, such as the light from the swords doing it in Nuke with lights attached to axis. It’s a quick clever hack that avoids going back to 3D. Very clever! And I love your voice it’s very comforting and relaxing to watch. I also like cinematics because they are stylized which I like. I don’t have the patients to play video games. But Iike watching people play and seeing the cinematics.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I do always try to make up simple hacks, it’s something I picked up while working at The Mill. A lot of hacking going on there. Really appreciate it. About my voice, well you are too kind, I have a terrible Portuguese accent, lol

[@rdoetjes]

Hugo's Desk the accent isn’t annoying, because you are easily understandable. Beside, in Dutch, we have the trademark Stone coal miner accent ;)

[@apmanti12]

awesome, i was waiting for this tutorial. btw, do you plan to do some tutorials on nuke's particle system? there's almost no in-depth tutorials on this subject, but it is so important to be proficient in it.

[@HugosDesk]

I guess I could make one. Make sure to be part of my Patreon so you can suggest​, vote and join the conversation for the next videos. www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@thenout]

Huge thanks Hugo, as always. One question: you left the shutter offset of your scanline render node at "start". I learned that "center" gives the accurate filmic response. Also, I wonder how RedShift would approach this. Thank you! EDIT: Oh, and one thing I would have done instead of animating the frost merge mix is an animated noise for the alpha input of the merge, so as the noise size increases over time, the frost grows. Just for throwing something into the ring here.

[@arbikerimov]

Thank You!

[@HugosDesk]

NP

[@tiarasparks12]

One of the things that I love about you Hugo is that your super organized with your templates. Can I get a downloadable version of your template?

[@HugosDesk]

Hi, thanks so much. Yes I keep it organised so we can share shots between artists. This is something I picked up while I was at The Mill. I do have these scripts available for my $20 + Patreons. Thanks

[@khosoos1619]

Thanks Hugo , more like this video please….

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks, am trying to make more but permissions from clients sometimes is an issue. I will try to do more in the future.

[@zuzamilos]

Hi Hugo, nice breakdown as always. Like your workflow and mindset on the compositing. I have a brief question if you have time for it, why the log to lin before the lens distortion?

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I usually do a Log2Lin when I do extreme transforms (like a lens distortion of a wide lens) this is just a safety measure to make sure I don't get any pixels below 0. If you do sharpen and transforms without some kind of "lift" on black you can get a lot of black edges and negative values. Maybe I should make a video about this someday.

[@zuzamilos]

Thank you for your response Hugo, I encountered similar problems in the past and I have use it, but not like this, thanks for the tip ;) Keep up with what you are doing, you are very good at! Have to share a tough with you... (It refers to people who are mostly doing things just for money). Do you know why you will never be the best in what you do...? You just cant compete with people who love what they do ;)

[@marianosegat6479]

Can I ask why did you use the log2lin before the lens distortion? What's the reason for transforming the gamma curve before a lens distort? . Your videos are a great value to our community, I hope you don't stop uploading great content now that you also have a private course! Of course I hope you do really well with them, but there will always be people willing and able to pay for your time even if you make some great free tutorials too.

[@TheVirusbrains]

Hey Hugo, that's very interesting composite out there, by the way, what is that device with vectorscope on to your right?

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. The scopes are these: www.blackmagicdesign.com/dk/products/smartview/scopes

[@EricTello]

Hugo, could you show how the Y_Ramp and Z_Ramp are made in Redshift?

[@JohnAnderson-yy1uo]

muito maravilhoso!!!!🏆🇧🇷😎

[@XtaaZ06]

Hi, thanks again for this video! I wonder why on the frost effect (and other scanlineRender you use), you don't use vectorBlur to rendre motion blur, as it is supposed to be faster than rendering it directly in the scanlineRender node ? Great video once again, keep going :D

[@HugosDesk]

Yes, it is faster but the motion blur is less exact than the scanline. The Vector Blur goes a bit nuts with Z Movement. I really recommend the Motion Blur from the RayTracer. It will match the CG more than​ the Vector Blur.

[@XtaaZ06]

I see, my thoughts were good so. Thanks a lot!

[@avtpro]

I bought Endorphin from Natural Motion before they went solely into games. Amazing company at the time. They no longer commercially offer software.

[@noyanbayman8806]

node tree looks sooo scary :D

[@HugosDesk]

It's not as complicated as it looks. lol

[@noyanbayman8806]

I'm beginner probably because of that :D

[@flamered_images]

Great Stuff! Can i download you knowledge please, so i can plug it in to my head and save a heap of time! Keep the videos flowing!!!!!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching. Do you mean the Nuke Script only? Without the assets?

[@flamered_images]

Hi Hugo! it was more comedy suggestion with the idea of importing you skill-set via USB to my own memory :) But keen to get more of a crossover to Nuke from using After Effects for 15 years...Really need to get more of experienced work flow rather than the self taught technique. Any other Tutorials on from your AE2NUKE class 1 - After Effects to Nuke 101?

[@HugosDesk]

Hahaha, well you will be happy to know that I am launching an AE2Nuke course in Kickstarter very soon. Keep on eye on my Patreon for more info. www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@cgchoco]

Best multipass tutorial ever. Is it possible to know how much is the cost of this shot? How much did you evaluate it? Thank you

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for saying that. I am sorry but am afraid I can’t comment on the budget

[@davetedeyev]

24:49 how did you attach lights to the geo?

[@thandapaniedits]

Hi hugo I am try to move compositing. what is the basic things and important things now I am prep com junior can you give any idea or tips!

[@Omarencarnacion1]

wow man! thaaanks for a complete video like this, love it!!...i have a question, maybe a long one, i'm so so confused, i can model (80%), can rig (49%), can animate (70%), can do some compositing in Nuke (20%) and AE (60%), but i'm confuse, i'm trying to get a lot of information, trying to learn more about modeling, animation, rigging, redenring and compositing, but as we all know there's a looooot of things to learn about that, what do you recommend to me to focus on?, i love modeling, but i love animation too, but heey i really love compositing (VFX)...you as a VFX artist, you know all that (animate, modeling, etc) or just you got all your focus on compositing (vfx)? pls need your help on that

[@apmanti12]

im not as experienced as hugo, but i can tell ya, that if you plan to work in a real vfx house, you will need to focus on something specific, like nuke compositing, vfx companies dont use ae for compositing. if you wanna go freelance route then learn little bit of everything.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks, It depends what you are after. If you want to work in Film then you need to pick one and specialize. If you are in a commercial​ facility then being a generalist is great. So the question is: What do you want?

[@Omarencarnacion1]

thanks for the advice :)

[@Omarencarnacion1]

thanks to you for answer my question, i have to sit down and take my time thinking about it

[@caueandrade4374]

Hello Hugo, love it this! Can u said what u workstation setup? Wich cpu, gpu do u used? Thanks!

[@HugosDesk]

I have 3 workstations in my office so I can work on many shots at the same time and also have email, youtube, etc. I have 1x Mac Pro 2014 (full spec) - 12 cores at 2.7Ghz with 64GB ram and dual AMD D700, then I have 1x Mac Pro 2010 with 12 cores 3.4Ghz and 128GB Ram and dual NVidia Quadro K5000s. Last but not least I have a Mac Pro 2009 with 12 cores 3.0GhZ with 64GB Ram and an NVidia Quadro P5000. (One of the Mac Pros is dual boot with Windows 10 and Mac OSX) I also have 2 Mac mini Servers with 4 cores and 16GB Ram to help the party.

[@satyajeet8686]

Man!! looks like u make insane money to afford all that plus all the 4K monitors and stuff. I dont't know if vfx artist can make lot of money. Do u have any other income source or its just vfx compositing?

[@HugosDesk]

Well not really, those machines are quite old now so they pretty cheap to get second hand. But I have been working in the Industry for 20 years so I guess I charge a good rate these days. Also don’t forget I work as a VFX Sup and Director so not only comp. thanks for the support mate.

[@caueandrade4374]

Thanks a lot for u answer Hugo! :)

[@LucianoCequinel]

Suggestion: put the name of your crew on description so we can find other detailed jobs from them.

[@HugosDesk]

You mean of my team?

[@LucianoCequinel]

Yes. I'm a nuke compositor, but I'm curious and always like to know other artists and roles to get inspiration.

[@chenahhhA]

What node did you use to add lens distortion? Thank you

[@HugosDesk]

I calculated the distortion with a real lens grid filmed onset and applied it with a STmap.

[@LucianoCequinel]

More long = More Cool!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the support.

[@studiopost9762]

Love your tuts! but please brother! use more the zoom screen tool! :)

[@HugosDesk]

Sorry mate, I am future proofing my videos so I make them in 2.5K or 4K. Thanks for watching

[@allandm]

Hi Hugo. Where would I be able to get an image like your 'iris_spots'? For a better depth of field

[@HugosDesk]

That’s from Optical Flares. They have a folder with loads of Iris.

[@allandm]

oh I see. Thanks

[@LINHOSPECIAL360]

Hi how do you change the color UI in maya to yellow ? Thanks.

[@HugosDesk]

Haha, that was a glitch in the capture software. I had the monitor set​ to 10-bit and the capture does not like that. I forgot to change it to 8-bit. So it was a glitch.

[@ajithmohan.n]

how you add lens distortion please discribe in your next tutorial Thanks

[@HugosDesk]

Ok, thanks for the suggestion. Join my Patreon and vote for my next videos: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@simoneventuri]

Did you animate the clouds on the matte painting at the end?

[@HugosDesk]

Yes I did. They are moving. It’s a layer in PSD. Thanks for watching

[@simoneventuri]

Hello Hugo! Is there any way to contact you with a private message?

[@HugosDesk]

Sure, you can contact me in Patreon , in fact we have a private group in Facebook and Discord if you support the channel at: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@sahilprabhu4140]

can i get this file to practice??

[@user-pn4wt3xm2r]

谢谢 就是没有字幕

[@graphicman1465]

how to export axis animation from maya to nuke tutorial pleas

[@HugosDesk]

It’s pretty simple, you can use a Alembic export from Maya to Nuke (file type is .abc)

[@graphicman1465]

@@HugosDesk thank you very mach

[@ady7d77]

how much memory ram do you have, and cpu, and ssd you have_?

[@HugosDesk]

At the time of that video I had using a Mac Pro 6.1 with 12 cores, 64gb Ram together with a 32TB Caldigit Raid 0 and a 4 m.2 blad Raid for scratch and cache.

[@naifox1]

his nickname makes lol

[@marcusdryden930]

is this script anywhere to look at

[@HugosDesk]

Yes you can Support me on Patreon and have acess to my scripts. Thanks

[@marcusdryden930]

I do !

[@GOLD-jb5pw]

plz add auto translate...

[@topkek670]

who dislikes this video? :D

[@HugosDesk]

I always get about 1% dislikes, lol. So there is always someone. Haha

[@topkek670]

Hugo's Desk i'd be so curious to see why. its free. its on point and not boring. well, it is what it is i guess! :D

[@sohamdutta9612]

And you need to get a haircut lol

[@HugosDesk]

Done that