Part Four: Pre-compositing - HomeFront Cinematic - Nuke - Keying

This is part Four of 5 videos about the full deconstruction of shot 20 for the cinematic intro of the triple-A game Homefront The Revolution. In this "part four", we will discuss the pre-compositing, keying and roto of the shot inside Foundry's Nuke.
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[@kirederf7862]

I am in awe of how amazing and talented these artists and Hugo are at their craft here. This is just amazing

[@HugosDesk]

You are too kind. Thanks so much for your words

[@SebastienProduction1]

This Nuke scripts give me dizziness !! Impressive team work :)

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks mate. We had a dream team

[@George901210]

It's nice to see my name there, hopefully, in the future, I will support more. This could be very helpful in a couple of shot I had to compose a couple months back for a tv show, I had a bad situation about the VFX supervisor, he didn't care too much for the noise of the shots which was a real pain that almost I have to roto the scene.

[@HugosDesk]

No problem, and thanks so much for supporting the channel, it is very appreciated. Sometimes the VFX sup won't have control over ISO settings. Unfortunately, many DOPs use ISO very irresponsible in VFX shots so it may not be his fault. But It is always​ a pain when you need to roto so much. Frustrating.

[@manikandancv5809]

Thank u so much for making these videos . Big fan of your works

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I try to do as much videos as possible. Sometimes I am very busy but I try. Thanks

[@MHTutorials3D]

Awesome, you rock buddy !

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. You are too kind. It was great to meet you in person at Animago.

[@syedfarankhalil8293]

Sir .... Waiting for your new content. Love your work & keep it up

[@HugosDesk]

Hi, I am creating new content once a month on KZbin.You can vote on my videos on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk I am also creating full compositing workshops on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/hugosdesk I have done 15 hours of Workshops in Nuke so far. Cheers

[@siaamak]

awesome stuff and tricks, thanks for sharing man!

[@third_beacon]

Always so good! Thank you, Hugo!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks mate. Part 5 coming in a few weeks.

[@chai112mno]

really nice explanation.

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. Glad you liked it. Final Part 5 coming soon

[@eskindergetachew4949]

outstanding

[@HugosDesk]

You just wait to see the next one. I can’t wait to share it.

[@jnortheastfilms]

Very helpful mate! Would love a keying tutorial!!!! KEYLIGHT vs IBK!

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. I am a big fan of Primatte but IBK is pretty cool

[@apmanti12]

keylight is for core and ibk is for edges, using only one keyer (specially on a complex shot) wont get you far.

[@gulubidulu]

For the animated crop, there is a more efficient way to do it. Basically you can use a curvetool, and it will provide a pixel accurate bounding box that you can expand a bit with an adjustBBox node. You can also use the nukescripts.autocrop() python command (by using the x key)

[@HugosDesk]

Yes true but I will be honest, a lot of times I just don’t even bother with the curvetool and I just do it by hand. I find that with simple camera movement like this shot it’s faster.

[@yhanur6386]

@@HugosDesk may i know the script to animate autocrop node ?

[@CanberkSezer]

It looks much more complex than i imagined.

[@Omarencarnacion1]

awesome! i was waiting for this part, you-re the best, thanks man, thanks to your videos makes me a better vfx artist :D

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much. Part 5 coming soon. Glad you like it.

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Awesome! Just wish you made these tuts in AE also! (Trying to learn how to jump from AE to Nuke...and seems so difficult!) Keep it up!!!!!!

[@HugosDesk]

Don't give up mate, keep going. Remember I also started in AE. The best way is to "force" a project with Nuke and uninstall AE for the duration of that project. That helps a lot.

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Thank you for your response!! I'll definitely do that! As its said " Well begun is half done...!!)

[@HugosDesk]

Don't forget to sign up and watch my free Nuke Compositing Workshop live today at 18.00 UK. The more people that sign up to watch the stream the more likely we will make more live events in the future. Your support is much appreciated. Let's try to have an open community where sharing and knowledge are free and not behind any paywalls. Hope to see you today at the Q&A. Thanks so much Remember this free Workshop is brought to you by BenQ Europe: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3729826412762332941?source=H-YT

[@apmanti12]

yo! hugo is back! you are a truly skilled professional, your work is on a such high production level! would love to get access to those scripts - will i get access to all the previous scripts or only future scripts? if i sign for your patreon page?

[@HugosDesk]

Thanks so much for the support. Well I only started the scripts tier 2 months ago so I am sure we can work something out. If you support this month you would get this pre comp and the final comp next month. Thanks

[@apmanti12]

awesome! i was really interested in down of titans script where you did those fancy custom passes. my multi-pass compositing is kinda a weak spot, so trying to bump-up my skills in this direction as much as i can :)

[@abhishekchitre5295]

Awesome Compositing !!! How much time did you guys take to complete the compositing on this shot ?

[@HugosDesk]

This shot was probably about 3-4 weeks of work in total.

[@aaronsbot]

Fantastic

[@Lb_75.p13]

just dope

[@richiebeans129]

Great video. You need to turn on Closed Captioning.

[@lolaras]

beautiful script, simplified and clean. My only question is why use a screen and not a plus when merging light?

[@harshkanojia1252]

can you give me that file pleaseee.......

[@HugosDesk]

Well the plus was overexposing too much so I select screen so the values would not go behind 1

[@HugosDesk]

If you are my Patreon you can have the script. Thanks

[@BakaNimate]

Hi Hugo, Thank you for the amazing tutorials. Before I go forward with my questions I would like to warn you that I am quite new to NUKE. I need to key out models/ figure from a WHITE BG. The shoot was done for different purposes than what we end up using it for. How would you proceed in this case? Is it even possible to do it? Thank you in advance.

[@shtaarjean8003]

Hi Hugo thanks a lot for this content i have a question ! do you recommend buying 2 ssd for Nuke one for Read other for Writing or a single M.2 Nvme 970 The pro one my setup is i7 6700K 16Gb Ram, is this hardwares ok for nuke or should i upgrade cpu ! ram ! im a houdini user but i have no clue what nuke is capable of using the hardware like multithreading

[@takshiljain86]

Hey awesome tutorial! Can I get the soldiers raw green screen footages on your patreon? Because i am trying to recreate this same shot myself 😅 it would a huge help of you can provide me these clips!

[@CanberkSezer]

Can you make a video about, keying in after effects vs nuke? Because i would like to see the difference.

[@mohamedben6591]

I have a question, how do you know which nodes to use, for example how you know whether to use the "channel merge" and not the "multiply" node and vice versa, you test all the nodes to see the results?

[@HugosDesk]

Well all the nodes have a reason to exist in Nuke. They all have a specific function. For example the channel merge has created to merge single channels. The multiply node is for multiplying values like on grading or between 2 different layers with sets of RGB. You know what I mean?

[@bandersnatch9469]

Where can I download the project files (in order to practice?)

[@bandersnatch9469]

Can I download those files as a way of practicing? ( as I’m teaching myself VFX)

[@GustavoArceMusic]

Please where can I get the fire and smoke effecs

[@HugosDesk]

Most of them are from ActionVFX. Have a look: www.actionvfx.com/products

[@mrdhiraj789]

why dont u use transform masked node to offset those markers on the gun instead of doing transform and then keymix. any special reason for that.

[@HugosDesk]

Well as always there are many ways to make the same thing in Nuke. Both are valid techniques​. Thanks for watching.

[@cybermascot]

could a ray tracing in nuke be you next topic ?

[@polymonger]

why do you need a log2lin and the reversal towards the reformat ?

[@HugosDesk]

At some point we had a very aggressive sharpening filter on the reformat options. We eventually changed it back to Cubic so we could have removed the Log2Lin. I use this technique to prevent broken pixels in the darker areas. Some filters modes have a lot of sharpening and can produce some artefacts.

[@polymonger]

arrr alright, that makes sense now.

[@gulubidulu]

Yup, when you use a filter like sinc4, lanczos4 or lanczos6, you will definitely see the difference. In some cases, you might want to check if you have negative values, because even with this trick, it is never perfect.

[@HugosDesk]

That is a great point. This is why I always do this anyway to be safe and double check with the zebra.

[@Shatavartverma]

Where were u all this time bro...luv from india!!!🥰

[@HugosDesk]

Haha, been here for 3 years mate. Don't forget, the first Hugo's Desk Twitch Stream is tomorrow Thursday, 14th March from 18.00 GMT. www.twitch.tv/hugosdesk

[@harshkanojia1252]

Hugo's Desk please help where it can find that file i want that file and stock footage... for practise !!!!

[@HugosDesk]

I share the Nuke script in my Patreon. Thanks

[@samueltobias546]

I love you

[@HugosDesk]

Thank you but I am already married! Haha

[@samueltobias546]

@@HugosDesk HAHA. Man, I'm just migrating from after effects to Nuke and starting with Houdini. It's mindblowing, and what you are doing it's really cool. Thanks so much. Greetings from Mexico City!

[@orlandeuce6567]

3:10 - 3:16 holy shit

[@HugosDesk]

Hahaha what’s wrong?

[@orlandeuce6567]

@@HugosDesk the amount of keying for that shot alone #damn

[@lofixmb]

Keying tutorial please ❤

[@VFX_COMPOSITER]

Can you send me this explosion file

[@avikdhar1351]

please give me the nuke file...

[@HugosDesk]

Hi, you can have access to the script f you become a Patreon with the $20 or more tier: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk

[@noyanbayman8806]

really wanna meet person who dislikes that

[@HugosDesk]

Hahaha, I always have one dislike at least. Always. Much hate me... lol