Nuke Tutorial - Make It Rain

[@PDeNigris]

Hey before you comment on how "unrealistic" my wet road is, consider that you are not seeing the shots that surround this one - which were actually filmed in the rain. This shot was made to match the other shots in the sequence. Also consider that this is a road in Arizona, and our roads tend to get really slick when it rains. They do not behave like roads elsewhere due to our dry climate. Thanks! ~PD

[@magusofthebargain]

I was gonna ask if the wet asphalt wouldn't be a little darker, but I guess you answered that question.

[@ericheberling6410]

Hey, thanks for the tutorial. I didn't necessarily need the car stuff as that is pretty specific to this shot, but just revealing the P_SnowRain node to me is going to be really fun to play with. Keep goign as in depth as you do. I am sure a lot of people appreciate that, myself included!!

[@PDeNigris]

Thanks! Much appreciated.

[@Amr_Cinema]

5 years later I find this tut is the best

[@AustinThomasFilms]

Very informative!!! Just started learning Nuke and I'm always grateful for in-depth tutorials like these when I can find them. Subscribed :)

[@RFC3514]

Adding a bit of vertical skew to the car's reflection would really help it look more realistic at the start.

[@PDeNigris]

Not a bad idea. Of course there are a million ways to improve any comp.

[@apmanti12]

oh wow, i remember asking you about this shot when i saw it in your reel. thnx lol. glad that things are going good for you and you getting a lot of work.

[@PDeNigris]

Thanks! I remember you asking about it, and have had other folks asking about it too So you were one of the people that prompted me to do this! (I ended up having to re-post the reel because of a render problem that I didn't catch until it was in "public beta" if you will, so your comment went away with the original video,.)

[@Belfrahn]

Love the tut and the techniques. Thanks!

[@Mazyartube]

I believe the reason for your particle system being slow is the particle shape being 960x540. Try to reformat it to something like 50x50 and it might help.

[@chintu5715]

I have no words to describe how cool you're. Please do more digital tutorials by the way I like your beard

[@bassybassyman]

This tutorial is so brilliant!!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

This is a very practical tutorial with real world uses. Thanks so much!!

[@lukeswain3630]

Thanks for these!

[@ameliaim7357]

Thank you a lot for this tutorial. Helped me a lot!

[@KenedyTorcatt]

Great info... I wanted to ask you if you could create a nuke compositing tutorial introducing heave atmosphere inside a live action 2D plate. I am working on a personal short and I need to create that heavy atmosphere to show a highly contaminated place like some places in China. Can you create something like that? I have seen some tuts using the depthgenerator node in nuke to have a zdepth map from a 2D live action plate and I have seen using a grade node, but I am curious if that's the best way to create itor is better to work with nuke particles and that zdepth map? It will be amazing if you could create something like that tut. Thanks in advance.

[@IamJohnnyFan]

Creatively impressive!

[@Akshay_Morey]

Awesome sir

[@magusofthebargain]

instead of shuffling out the alpha and then putting the roto on the main pipe, you can just use a copy node to bring in roto that you have done, or roto that has been prepared for you by another artist.

[@PDeNigris]

Agreed, I think that's a personal preference. Either step takes 2 nodes: (Shuffle or Remove + Roto) vs (Roto + Copy). I tend to like rotos inline with footage unless there's a reason not to (such as using the same roto multiple places for whatever reason). One of the great things about Nuke is the flexibility to work as you like, as long as you keep your node graph tidy.

[@pablorodriguez323]

Nice job :) thanks and greetings from Chile

[@naifox1]

Thats what we need more Good tutorials from you Sir

[@PDeNigris]

Thanks, working on being more consistent!

[@renosnicolaou8417]

Perfect

[@SoumyadipSarkar45]

I'm struggling to animate the tire marks of the car. Can you help me out ? (I'm working on a different footage, just want to know the parameters and their values of the Transform node you used)

[@HueSatVal]

Great stuff!

[@satyachauhan2395]

very good tutorial . 1 thing is in my that i want to ask u is these any way to make off road sandy area look wet and little relastic.

[@ViettttNam]

These kind of tutorials r just helping a lots. Thanks sir, u r just cool like Tony Stark. U have my subscribe!

[@PDeNigris]

I'll take it. Thanks!!

[@methlokaijufan9729]

Are there any other ways to do this without these overcomplicated nods ?

[@PDeNigris]

Which nodes do you think are overcomplicated?

[@methlokaijufan9729]

@@PDeNigris All of them ? I'm not used to stuff like nodes and I never was .

[@PDeNigris]

Well Nuke is entirely node based. I suppose you could attempt this in After Effects but I think it would be a lot harder.

[@methlokaijufan9729]

@@PDeNigris No really . I'm far more used to After effects

[@PDeNigris]

@@methlokaijufan9729 Well I have a bunch of AE tutorials as well

[@apmanti12]

Hey, quick question about those tire tracks: Do you did them by paint brush? How did you animated them, I see that they fading out really nice and smooth.

[@PDeNigris]

Yes, I brushed them in a Rotopaint node (and cheated by doing one tire and then duplicating the Rotopaint and transforming it a little to become the second tire.) They are black paint strokes on a white Constant. Then I've got a Roto node after my Rotopaints and I keyframed a very feathered mask to trail way behind the car and white out the tire tracks. That's Merged (multiply) over the Noise node for the road breakup. So the tracks appear black over the noise, then vanish. Hope that helps!

[@SitinprettyProductions]

Wow - you're very talented. If you take requests, would you consider doing a video on removing lace / netting of wigs on an actor? I have yet to see any tutorial on that on youtube and im sure i cant be the only one who would like to kbow how a pro tackles it.

[@PDeNigris]

Thanks! We've done some work like that, you're right it would make a good tutorial.

[@omkarmahindrakar5468]

nyc tutorial it is very helpful, but when the rain drops are falling they are not falling on road they are only falling in front of camera & it looks unrealistic, what to do about that, any suggestions?

[@devajanibagvath5523]

Hi, Loved the tutorial. The idea and how you approached it. By the way, What is that glove that you are wearing. Do you have tingling pain ? Because I do. And I dont know what to do about it.

[@PDeNigris]

Thanks very much! The glove is a "tablet glove" it's to keep your hand from sticking to the tablet.

[@devajanibagvath5523]

@@PDeNigris thank u Paul

[@ibraheemyousef8114]

THANKS CAN YOU Is it possible to put the picture on which you worked ?

[@PDeNigris]

Yes, I can make this footage available through the Footage tier on my Patreon with signing of an NDA.

[@ibraheemyousef8114]

@@PDeNigris Thank you If you will subscribe to your page And gladly.....Done

[@nageshkusuma6935]

thank you sir

[@zenjohnson6120]

great! can I ask you what was the camera used ? manhythanks!

[@PDeNigris]

This was filmed four or five years ago. Whatever camera was used is pretty much irrelevant now. It was probably a gen 1 Blackmagic Ursa Mini.

[@homealonefan3188]

@@PDeNigris thanks.. well it looks good on my laptop! im looking for a new camera to make shorts on.. the R5 image looks great but it overheats , the a7s3 looks good but a bit digital, although all the features like AF , low light etc are good, I love the look for red but out of my budget , although I may just have enough for Komodo .. the Ursa 12k looks good but their official sample images look weak .. not sure why they would release images that dont look as good as the G2. maybe the pocket 8k will come out ? .. its a hard choice .. what cameras do you like ?

[@PDeNigris]

@@homealonefan3188 I'm pretty much just a post guy now, I don't really have a camera preference. Although I will say RED cameras make my job more difficult because in my opinion the way they handle color is wonky.

[@homealonefan3188]

@@PDeNigris cheers.. thanks for the heads up ! :-)

[@clayholmes4561]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the particles to start before frame zero so that there's rain on my first frames. Is there a 'start at' option that I'm missing?

[@PDeNigris]

Shouldn't need to do anything, the P_SnowRain node starts up full of particles right from the first frame with no user input.

[@clayholmes4561]

Curious that it's delayed on mine. Thanks for the great tut nevertheless!

[@anotherone8620]

WOOOOOOOOOW! It's awesome!

[@chainjohn94]

Very nice work 👌👍👍💪 bro

[@amitartswalchandnagar3195]

Good

[@MONEYVAL9]

How would you do the inverse? , From wet to dry?

[@PDeNigris]

That would be a bit tougher. There are tutorials out there for using Time Echo and the like to remove rain or snow. Wouldn't work on a moving camera shot though. And then you'd have to repaint the road to be dry and have no reflections. Probably not worth the effort.

[@jaisonsfavorites383]

Never stretch the reflection on road

[@PDeNigris]

Had to in this case.

[@vietcyco5726]

thank !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@9701334355]

How to adjust black Value? Can you please make Video

[@PDeNigris]

You use the Lift value on the Grade node to raise or lower the black level in an image.

[@chainjohn94]

can you give your work file and footage .. please bro

[@PDeNigris]

There's a tier on my Patreon that gets you access to footage.

[@rushikeshheblikar]

sir please provide scan

[@ibraheemyousef8114]

Hi brother I wanted you to send me a video application to even explain

[@YOUCANDOrelax]

Great

[@user-uw7ph3me9x]

thx

[@Thakurravinder]

O GOD. FOR.IT WORLDS MOST DIFFICULT SOFT.

[@中原.爱]

speak good