How to setup a Matte Painting in Nuke

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Simple tutorial showing how to use the Z and Focal options in Nuke’s 3D cards when setting up a Matte Painting in the 3D system.
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[@claystudiofx]

3:11, actually there's a hotkey to connect multiple nodes at once. First, select all the cards then 'shift' select the scene node, then press 'shift Y' . It will connect all the cards to the scene node. Anyway , thanks for the tutorial. it's really great!

[@timmy7596]

I have been working on Nuke, but never realized the workflow when it comes to Matte Painting. I spent hours playing with positioning and scaling. Thank you for sharing this.

[@aroidpapa]

I love your videos. They are so intuitive and they help so much, especially when tutors don't bother teaching the quick and easy ways of doing stuff that makes more sense!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I am very glad you like them. Thanks for the support.

[@darmelli954]

legend hugo! never aligned the camera setting for the card to the camera before! you've made my life so much easier!

[@HugosDesk]

Glad to be of service. Thanks

[@MrBiswas123]

These tutorials are amazing .Please post more stuff. It's a great fortune to learn from experienced professionals like you .

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words. If you would like to support my channel and have the content earlier than the rest please support me on Patreon, thanks so much: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@MrBiswas123]

Hugo's Desk for sure....

[@cobblesticks]

Love your tutorials. This one was especially good due to the way you explained the different processes, advantages and most importantly the reasoning behind it. Very helpful, more enjoyable and easier to follow than most other long drawn out and over complicated tutorials. Please keep up the good work. Thanks

[@HugosDesk]

+cobblesticks Thanks so much for you kind words. I try my best to be short and to the point.

[@saurabhkadam3050]

Awesome Explanation!

[@mohamedhafeez1166]

Art meets science! Thanks Hugo for sharing.

[@HugosDesk]

Any time!

[@davorkronja4594]

Great tip Hugo. Thanks a lot.

[@makdm1]

Great tutorial! Thank you Hugo!

[@masterchiappa]

Didn't know about this, very very helpful. Thank you Hugo!

[@emis_]

Excelente tutorial!

[@devashyavishwakarma2958]

Oh.. Hugo. You are the best. The way you teach is just awesome. Hope to get some knowledge from you on building up a perfect Portfolio. Cheers!!!!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Probably one of the best tutorials on matte paintings I've personally ever seen. This gives me a great starting point. Thanks so much.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. Glad you like it.

[@Pinionistus]

Thank you Hugo for this tutorial - I always wondered what's with those sliders - will use that next time would have to set matte painting. I think that what you should also cover next is neat thingy with projection with crop off. Projecting something with overscan but having 1:1 base image linked with footage. Very useful if camera moves around a bit.

[@HugosDesk]

+Pavle Milićević Thanks so for the kind words. On my list now. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@AM-rh8jg]

this is beautiful. Thank you for this video it s a great help!

[@PremViswa]

After searching for a long time this is the best tutorial !! Thank you so much :)

[@HugosDesk]

+Vishwanath Diraviam Thanks so much. Don't forget to support the channel in Patron (if you are not already) www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@MrBurkistan]

Thank You so much

[@wanaffendy3413]

Great tutorial!

[@sundarr5653]

Thanks Hugo. Awesome tut.

[@HugosDesk]

+sundara pandian No problem. Glad you liked it

[@sidbore92]

Thank you. A great lesson, master.

[@midlet]

Awesome! Was waiting on this one, Thanks!

[@HugosDesk]

No problem

[@HammerdownProtocol]

I was entrusted with a couple of matte paintings, for John Carter, 10 or so years ago (my duties at Cinesite were mostly textures and sculpts). I presented them to the DMP lads, with a flourish, only for them to ask me to next ,move on to the Nuke phase. Not my finest hour, I must admit. 😄 So, this is really helpful. Lifelong learning, eh? Thanks, again.

[@LuisSOfficial]

I love you guys, all of you supporting this beautiful side of the life, making unreal things real, and all these tutoriales in the web, this tutorial! are just insanely best thing can an artist have now these days to learn something in a real good way!... thankyou so much for helping us and the world to be better!

[@HugosDesk]

You are very welcome mate. I am glad you enjoy my tutorials. Your words means a lot to me and make me very proud. Thank you

[@LuisSOfficial]

@@HugosDesk thanks, i dont even talk English daily, im latinoamerican, from Panama, but I love to learn things so I must watch like all in English and, I really understand like everything! in your tutorial so... Yeah... Amazing buddy :D cheers!

[@HishamAdnan]

Thank you very very much

[@TheJackzont]

learned something new today, Thanks a lot.

[@douaaal-mgoter5260]

Thanks, you are awesome

[@eugenegolubenko]

Excellent lesson! Thank you

[@HugosDesk]

+eugenegolubenko Not a problem. Hopefully it can help.

[@justinlejeau5322]

Nice ! Thanks !

[@AppStarfree]

Thank You.. Its awesome.. I always create matte paintings but never knew how to project properly.. Thank you

[@Carteblanchefx]

Thanks a lot! Very helpful tip!

[@HugosDesk]

+Carte-Blanche Channеl No problem. Glad to help. Please check my other videos. Thanks

[@Pahchii]

this is without doubt going to be useful!

[@HugosDesk]

+Vheanom Hope so. Thanks

[@paulomateus3083]

Obrigado Hugo! Awesome tip!

[@HugosDesk]

+Paulo Mateus De nada. Obrigado por seguires.

[@cordellbriggs4984]

Great video as always Hugo!

[@HugosDesk]

+Cordell Briggs Thanks so much for your words. Means a lot to me.

[@cordellbriggs4984]

Hugo's Desk No thank you for your amazing videos! I'm a self taught, amateur compositor and soon to be compositing student in Vancouver. Hope I can show you some of my work one day!

[@julianpch]

you are great my friend

[@nicholashamilton40]

This video is so good. It has saved me so much time.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching. Glad I could help you save some time.

[@chilimbwe]

Thank you for this. Starting like I know nothing to get best practices at the beginning.

[@HugosDesk]

You are welcome

[@bumgfx_13]

Hi it was a very good tip, previously i was doing it in wrong way, now i came to know the better and clean way to do the things right :) Thanks a lot

[@ggogogohaha]

This is super helpful! Thanks!

[@HugosDesk]

+Ciou Jhih hong Thanks so much

[@javisartdesign]

Don't ever use Nuke but this tip is really great! I see you in a recent video The foundry has recently shared! Very inspiring hugo. muito obrigado!

[@HugosDesk]

Obrigado Javier.

[@AfroSanaa]

Very well explained, even from a BMD Fusion user perspective.

[@HugosDesk]

+ROBIGEMEDIA Thanks so much for the kind words.

[@nov3000]

thank you man

[@naveenprabhu_Vlogs]

You are Genius man, Thanks for sharing great tips

[@HugosDesk]

+Navin Prabhu You are too kind. I am not a genius. Only trying to share some stuff to all of you. Thanks mate

[@anoopashok4406]

cool, thank you!

[@Bart1260]

Oh, that was nice! Thanks! :)

[@Abrahamy2k]

THANK YOU BRO!!! Amazing tutorial!!!!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much

[@naseral-deen6294]

GENIUS

[@HugosDesk]

Am not but thanks for watching

[@mdsahabaz4948]

Thanks Hugo..Your Channel Helped me alot to be a Good Compositor

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words

[@shashank_5721]

thank you sir

[@HugosDesk]

You are welcome

[@SennyMarshall]

you the man hugo.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks for watching mate

[@tarincamarena7488]

Thanks Hugo :) Still learning, but videos like this help alot :D

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for watching

[@AlenaHovorkova]

hi, thanks! such a great help .. in each little tut from you, glad I´ve found your channel ..

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, gad to help. More to come soon. Please share so I can get more support and make even more. Cheers

[@joojosart7772]

You are gold!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. You are too kind!

[@hakaryusuf7950]

very helpfull, thank you !

[@gutandrew]

Awesome!

[@TheJackzont]

Great stuff. Subscribed 👍

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much

[@deep8673]

ThankYou !!!

[@Elizabeth_Postol]

Thank you, very helpfull!

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you for watching

[@zaferfanari9320]

Thank you so much, you are awesome!!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much mate.

[@aajjaymahajan9772]

Thank you so much Hugo for this tutorial, its very useful for real VFX production. It will be really great if you create some video on Color space and how it will work for VFX Matte Paintings? Which color space and process should we follow as a DMP artist for VFX project ?.

[@JADyART]

Fantastic!!

[@HugosDesk]

+Javier Acevedo Thanks

[@ujjwaljoshi7815]

thankyou sooo much

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, glad you liked it. Where are you working? You in London? Btw, Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel for more videos. And if you want extra perks then Support the channel in Patreon www.patreon.com/hugosdesk/

[@focusmaya251]

Great dear friend.thanks

[@luciascansetti329]

THANK YOU

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you for watching.

[@herves.1180]

Hi Hugo. Great... Thanks ! ;)

[@menakhovsky]

God bless you

[@jatinmahajan3162]

Waoo.. thnx alot

[@jjsgametube7113]

nice

[@zuzamilos]

I really appreciate what you are doing.

[@Jaredvic]

Legend

[@HugosDesk]

+elmo274 Thanks mate.

[@keremoganvfx]

i've known it but even so i wathced it, its very useful thanks a lot!

[@HugosDesk]

+Kerem Ogan Thanks for watching. Hope next video is something you don't know yet, lol

[@keremoganvfx]

Hugo's Desk :)) i hope so too:) it doesnt matter i like to watch your videos they are so usefull;)

[@malalasansurz.2643]

wow !!!! thank youuuuuu

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you for watching

[@Arminkenedi]

great VIdeo

[@pablovera4706]

Hey Hugo, great video, so helpful! In case you have time, can you tell me if there's an specific way of setting a matte to fit your camera, in case this one is not on the 0,0,0? I'd like to use this technique for setting Mattes on a tracked shot. I've been trying many things, but couldn't get a good result but manually doing so. Thank you so much!!

[@RishikhantPandian]

Man..you saved me hours..

[@HugosDesk]

+Rishikhant Pandian No problem. Be sure to check my other videos and also support my channel in Patreon if you can. Thanks

[@HugosDesk]

+Rishikhant Pandian Glade to help.

[@michaelbonanno7476]

I really do appreciate you taking the time to do this tutorial for us. Now suppose a few of the matte painting’s PSD layers had Curve or Levels adjustments. If you delete those Adjustment layers and replace them with the new Premult and Crop nodes, you’ll be losing the adjustments. Would you recommend bringing in layers that have the adjustments already applied, or do you have a way of keeping those adjustment layers from the PSD file? Again thanks very much Hugo!

[@sergiomarchelli]

Really nice tutorial!Thanks a lot! What about more complex camera movement? I would do the 3d projection in Cinema 4D (my main software) and then bring it to nuke?

[@radhanathdutta7312]

cooool

[@robotpainter7159]

Great tutorial Congratulation. Maybe you could show some animation how the result looks like.. Next time

[@ASHISH_KR_DUTTA]

@8:42 - can this technique of matching the focal length and aperture on card with the camera, be done on Fusion too ?

[@mjparent222]

This is really good information !!! Thank you so much. I would love to see about the projection 3D now ! Have you done the next part ? I search for it, but did not find it. Is it only with you patreon channel ? Thank you for letting me know. Great work.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. Yes I have a Nuke course with 150 classes that I made for Kickstarter. It will be for sale on Patreon next week. Keep an eye on my social. Thanks for watching

[@RajVaru-fb7zd]

Thanks for sharing need to get learn more about camera projection.please share the concern link

[@goswamigraphic5035]

i am vivek goswami ..you are amazing sir

[@user-wt3cm6kl2t]

I have one doubt how will this trick work with the moving camera that is imported from maya? i tried taking a frame hold for projection camera but it didnt work properly so can you tell me a solution to this i need a perfect scale for my matte painting thanks

[@HugosDesk]

Well you always start with a static camera to line up everything and then have a second camera to animate. Second camera needs to be from similar angle otherwise the matte breaks. That’s that answer your question? Maybe I misunderstood? Thanks

[@i20010]

Great explanation, thank you! So, is this camera going to be the projection camera? Because if I move this camera, the setup breaks, it is not attached to the cards. Are you gonna ad a "Shot camera" now? Thanks again!

[@aaronbradford4569]

You can connect the card's attributes to the camera and it should work if you move the camera or import camera that's not at 0,0,0.

[@yannberte8291]

Thanks * 10

[@ravimaurya4725]

plzz make a tutorial on how to composite matte painting with live action scene

[@offshot1st]

odd question. have you ever found images popping from infront to behind or disappearing for a few frames when you render from the 3D projections? i had this during major and I couldnt work out why it was happening. I thought maybe my cards were overlapping or couldnt be seen in the camera move, but that wasnt it. I couldnt find any animation on anything. so just ended up flattening the image to meet the deadline as the paralax was minimal. Still have no idea why my moon kept disappearing... also super helpful tut as always =)

[@HugosDesk]

+Emm Rouse Strange problem. So you checked the cards so they where not in the same XYZ space? Thanks for watching btw

[@offshot1st]

Hugo's Desk Yeah I did. I initally thought that was the issue, I suppose its still possible there was a stray key somewhere but I couldnt find it. I even moved the card further forward to make sure. :/ The mysteries of computers I guess :')

[@ASHISH_KR_DUTTA]

@1:24 After importing the psd file, my nuke is not showing the psd file layers, only rgb, rgba and alpha. And after breaking out the layers, the shuffles are in none position. Even at there the psd layers are missing. I have tried both 8-bit and 16-bit psd files. can you please help me out? Thanks in advance.

[@giovanidacosta6364]

Muito bom mesmo Hugo! Já pensou em fazer tutoriais? Grande trabalho! Acompanho todos!

[@HugosDesk]

Muito obrigado. Não percebo a pergunta. Eu já faco tutoriais aqui no Hugo's Desk. Estás a falar de cursos?

[@giovanidacosta6364]

Hugo's Desk isso mesmo Hugo! Falei errado! Só me dei conta depois que postei! Vc tem muito boa didática. Se houvesse tempo seus cursos seriam referência! Não tenha dúvida! Grande abraço!

[@HugosDesk]

Eu já fiz cursos no passado. Eu já fui professor na Escape Studios, NFTS, Campus i12, FXPHD entre outros. Eu vou lançar para a semana um curso no Kickstarter se tiveres interessado. Vai vendo a minha pagina de Patreon para mais informaçōes em breve: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@user-kx7oi9if6j]

Hi! Thanks for that tip! Didn't know that. But why not to use Project3D node that will do almost the same job?

[@HugosDesk]

Well the project 3D is more suitable for projection with geometry. I use the Cards as a first setup. like I said in the video. This setup is the first step to make a more complex projection using geometry. At some point you end up removing the cards as you build the projection up.You know what i mean?

[@user-kx7oi9if6j]

Yeah! Thanks for answer!

[@superbadmofo1]

I'm still confused in what camera setting to use......if your making a custom matte painting....is there a formula or aspect ratio.....how do you go about this....????

[@superbadmofo1]

HUGO....HOW do I determine the FILM BACK preset from a custom Matte Painting....ANY 1 please...

[@TheNewton]

11:55 For more rapid automation with things like Backgroundnode21~Backgroundnode33 is there a way to do an expression with growing numbers? _For the z-depth in nuke so each progressive card is less distance than the max, that way all you have to do is tune the backplates position when your just doing a rough first pass_ So pseudo code for Backgroundnode22 : _ =Backgroundnode21.Z-100 _, but for _Backgroundnode23_ and up you'd need the subtractor to grow. Or is there some way to get the sequence index of the current backgroundnode somehow _ =Backgroundnode21.Z-((currentbackgroundnodessuffix-21)*100)) _

[@alippy17]

if you don't need actually modeled 3d Geo would you just leave it like this instead of using the 3d project node? which one would actually render faster? also, I've always painted in 16 bit since it's supposed to hold more data for future grading, but is it that much noticeable and is it really worth making it a bigger file with 16bit..? one last thing, what's faster in nuke, matte painting psd, tiff, or converting it to exr out of Photoshop? thanks! :)

[@HugosDesk]

+Jordan Lipstock Really depends what you need to make and how much parallax you need. Geometry projection is slower then a card because of the amount of Geo. but cards are very limited if you have a complex camera move. Regarding the 16bit, Nuke only takes advantage of it if you don't bake the colour space otherwise it will clamp the images. So a Linear EXR is advised. From experience using PSD is easier and more convenient because the "breakout layer" works most of the time. So I would keep PSD. But make sure they are simple, labeled and without any "fancy" layers Effects. Hope that answered your question. Thanks

[@alippy17]

Hugo's Desk on a side question. do you know how to get a bubble masked to stick and project back onto a point to position (world position pass) then you don't have to use the heavy Geo. I had it setup once a but I don't remember how to do it.

[@RishikhantPandian]

@jordan had same question regarding Project 3d node.Glad that you asked it.

[@youtubereact_v1]

Can anyone implement this technique in After effects

[@redbeard4979]

Hugo's Desk, are you Swedish? How many special effects studios are there in Sweden? How developed are studios in your country? Thanks!

[@HugosDesk]

I lived in Sweden for years but I am in London now. Sweden has loads of Studios. Check Important Looking Pirates, Chimney, Fablefx, Goodbye Kansas, to start with!

[@redbeard4979]

@@HugosDesk Oh man, thanks for such a quick response! I'm just wondering where it is better to move to work, America or Sweden :)) I never thought about England. Is freelancing well developed in the studios you listed? It's a pity that you left Sweden :))

[@HugosDesk]

The studios I mentioned are Emmy and VES awarded studios. They are amazing

[@redbeard4979]

@@HugosDesk Thanks Hugo! Now all that remains is to send a demoreel to these studios:))

[@Shatavartverma]

sir will u teach us this projection technique in detail in your course on kickstarter???

[@HugosDesk]

Yes I do teach Projections on the Kickstarter course. The first years are almost done so I will be running the course soon. Keep an eye on my channels. Thanks

[@Shatavartverma]

@@HugosDesk SIR I AM BUYING RTX 2080TI FOR NUKE.........AM I TAKING THE RIGHT DECISION????

[@DCVFXMedia]

can u give me that psd mattepainted layers?

[@HugosDesk]

Sorry I can't give you this PSD since it belongs to my clients.

[@mayank7141]

after following this tutorial, even after masking the layers, the full image that i masked in photoshop is coming. Does anybody has any solution to this?

[@HugosDesk]

Have you applied a Premult? Most likely the image needs to me premultiplied by its alpha. Hope that works.

[@mayank7141]

Yes i already applied it as you said in the tutorial

[@HugosDesk]

Not sure then. Without swing your script I can’t really know what it could be.