How to make a fake Exponential Glow in Nuke

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A simple tutorial showing how to make a 3 step glow for a fire glow in CG or stock footage.
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[@innanoshe]

Dude I repeat I could watch your tutorials for hours.

[@HugosDesk]

Well I am on Twitch twice a week for hours! Haha

[@DhexTube]

Great stuff as always!

[@HugosDesk]

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[@fotuoh]

Bro, your channel is freaking awesome. Love ya Hugo. Thanks again bruv

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[@micky6038]

Pure gold thank you, love your videos :)

[@cheryldowse6055]

Gorgeous work! Thanks Hugo! Will definitely share this with my colleagues!

[@HugosDesk]

+Cheryl Dowse Thanks so much. You are too kind.

[@noyanbayman8806]

this channel really motivates

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching

[@wnazgul]

Oh, the glit was some cool advice, great vid !

[@leevfx]

Some lovely little glints of info there. Really ignited my love of comping. I hope it spreads. Hot stuff!

[@HugosDesk]

+Lee Watson Thanks so much. I was burning to show you guys the light...

[@MontyBurgess]

Fantastic.

[@apmanti12]

good that you are back!

[@HugosDesk]

+apmanti12 Thanks mate

[@ronydey2696]

GREAT STUFF SIR

[@CompositeNation]

Amazing man thanks for this!! Great explanation!

[@glmstudiogh]

Hello Hugo, thank you so much for these tutorials, I use fusion studio at the moment but I watch your tutorials and apply in in Fusion because I believe tutorials are supposed to teach you bout the tools used.

[@newart47]

Niiice dude, great tutorial. I'm glad that i found your channel.

[@HugosDesk]

+newart47 Thanks so much.

[@pseudopod77]

what you're doing is fantastic. thank you so much. I just subscribed.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for your kind words. Means a lot.

[@Carteblanchefx]

1000 thanks! Useful as always. ;)

[@HugosDesk]

+Carte-Blanche Channеl Glade to know. Thanks

[@cameron_mitchell]

Really helpful video, thank you!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks for watching

[@3d41pedro]

great!

[@shivas4831]

Thank u Hugo....Like Always

[@basiliasTG]

Cool tips bro!

[@HugosDesk]

+basiliasTG Thanks mate

[@AB-mv1mb]

thanks!

[@HugosDesk]

+AB186 Thank you for watching

[@PeterJansen]

I'm a big fan of exponential glows, they look the most photographic to me :)

[@HugosDesk]

+Peter Jansen Yes absolutely, they work so much better. I made a gizmo out of what I make in this video so I don't have to repeat it. Thanks for watching

[@bennorth4024]

Hi, when using the element do you use a blend mode for the fire or use a matte? If so do you need to add that glow to the matte also? Great tutorials also btw.

[@Volodyademar]

Nice shirt;) and great tutorial!

[@HugosDesk]

+Vladimir Korneitsev Ha ha ha, He-Mannnnn...

[@Volodyademar]

Yeah! I have the power!!!)))

[@toooooor]

nice video :)

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you

[@Jazsvir]

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. Indeed this is best technique to work with fire elements. Could you please upload video on smoke elements. How to keep high detailed smoke element.

[@LearnFunTvv]

Sir U r monster in nuke techniques

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. You are too kind.

[@LearnFunTvv]

welcome sir :)

[@user-dr5wg7td7m]

Hey, Hugo I like to watch your tutorials and I always get motivation from them I want to learn vfx and compositing art in Europe. What schools or courses you believe can help me to get a great start at this direction? I recently finished my law bachelor course It would be nice if you could give me a piece of advice

[@siddharthvasisth4050]

As always top of the notch, can we have the next one as, You have to be better ...at matching foreground to background (CG and live plate)

[@mayankdahekar5620]

Thank you for all the great tutorial. Can you please guide me in which order I should start learning vfx. I have basic knowledge of nuke. M just looking to make a career change into it. Thanks

[@Advection357]

Hmm... is it the lens spilling the light or the smoke released from the fire causing a volumetric scatter around the flames? Both contribute to the effect I think ;o I didn't get a notification btw! Just randomly clicked to see what Hugo has been up to ;D

[@HugosDesk]

+Advection357 I have noticed KZbin is terrible at notifications. Sometimes it does not do it. Strange

[@pedromsl7842]

Hey Hugo, the amount of comments here for the view count should show how good your videos and tutorials are. As an editor going into compositing, these are helping me way more than any other tutorial on the web. I love the "Deconstructs" and these episodes. I hope you could get into some more detail about keying and some other more technical aspects later. Really hoping for an advanced nuke class on fxphd or something like that. How can we help to make that happen?

[@HugosDesk]

+Pedro Msl Thanks so much for the kind words. I am so glad you are enjoying the videos. Regarding FXPHD, I have done a class before for them. Years ago when I was still at The Mill. It was a nuke studio class. Maybe someday I will do another class for them. Thanks so much again for watching.

[@glmstudiogh]

is there anywhere that I can find a list of the names of the nodes in nuke and how they're named in fusion please?

[@akhilshekar8427]

Love from India ❤️

[@slobodanjankovic9581]

Thanks for the tips :) .... How about tips for green screen keying?

[@HugosDesk]

+Slobodan Jankovic It's on my list. Soon. Thanks

[@kingempirer4049]

HEMAN!

[@HugosDesk]

Haha

[@thewhat308]

Dude.... R U GOD??

[@HugosDesk]

Nope, just 40 year old overweight Portuguese artist... haha

[@thewhat308]

well as an overweight greek -trying to be- artist, I thank you so much for this tutorial. SUBSCRIBED.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the sub, really appreciate it.

[@mikkelmelby]

ohh i miss nuke now

[@kim-qp2df]

reduce noise, where is download?

[@mostlyharmless88]

Jr comp 101

[@HugosDesk]

+upstartmike Yes it is 101. But I have meet lot's of people that still comp glows just on top as a plus. Thanks for watching.

[@LifeLine45]

how to export your video in 4k

[@HugosDesk]

+Life Line Sorry what do you mean? The tutorial is playing in 4K in KZbin

[@LifeLine45]

how to make your video in 4k

[@HugosDesk]

+Life Line Just select 4k from the options in KZbin. (In The HD icon)

[@LifeLine45]

how to render your video

[@0ur0]

honestly I don't see the point. You are just adding glow to footage which is already correct as the fire sits in his natural context...it would have made more sense if you integrate this very fire with another footage that has a different exposure, , so extra glow might be needed, or CG fire.

[@HugosDesk]

+0ur0 It is the concept of making a exponential glow. Sorry you are disappointed. Thanks for watching anyway. Maybe the other videos in the channel could do something for you? Thanks

[@spider853]

10:30 "shitty after effects plugin"... really? :/ you can do the same stuff in AE as you did here...

[@HugosDesk]

What I mean is we don't use a lot of Plugins in the VFX industry. We prefer to use your own methods and pipelines so we have total control over all aspects of the VFX shot we are trying to make. In large scale VFX project, you can't depend on plugins. You need to control your images 100% this menas controlling the values, the exposure, etc. And yes you can do this in After Effects but if you do it manually in Nuke you will know and understand what you are making to the image, Plugins are terrible for a compositor. They make you lazy!

[@reginaldpoofta5]

@@HugosDesk Dude... your glow looks terrible. It's not about plugins, its about the result no matter what software was used. I would never approve this kind of glow.

[@HugosDesk]

@@reginaldpoofta5 That's ok! I can approve it! haha

[@reginaldpoofta5]

@@HugosDesk Of course you can, KZbin doesn’t have quality standards ;)

[@HugosDesk]

​@@reginaldpoofta5 Forgot to mention that this is just a simple tutorial and I was making a joke. I am a VFX supervisor with 20 years of experience and not a KZbinr! And I understand where you are coming from. I'm just showing an exponential glow created n nUke. It's up to you to make it work for your own shot!