After I exported my rendered frames from Maya into Nuke, I worked on my Nuke script file. From there I had to resolve color and create a look up table (LUT) folder.
The LUT folder this was used for color correction and I grabbed the 6500k (kelvin) file from google classroom and applied the file in Nuke. I added a vector field and color correct node. Vector Field is used for the kelvin file and the color correction is used to change the color settings in order to match the colors of the frames in the video.
The next step is to bring my rendered frames from Maya to Nuke. Inside of Nuke I would create read nodes for each set of frames based on the following sets: Plant Creature Main Plant Creature Shadow Plant Creature Window Reflection
Therefore, I created 3 read nodes and then created a postage stamp for those 3 read nodes. With those read nodes, I used the shadow read nodes and used the read node as a postage stamp with the merge node which is used to blur out portions of the comp and blend in with the composition realistically. From there, I added a grade node to color grade the video itself. Then with the main read node, I created a postage stamp which is used with the merge node with grading.
Afterwards, I had to do match movements which was needed from the tracking markers that was placed onto the doors. With the tracking markers, I tracked the door.
Once the door was tracked, I tracked the shed table (on the left) and used the roto nodes.
After a horrendous time and facing issues with rendering my frames. I had managed to render out all my main frames. I rendered out 50 frames per computer and I needed 7 computers to render. The total amount of frames were 350 and I did the calculations by the following: 390 - 40 = 350 and I had to go ahead and render out my main frames with multiple computers to tackle the time before the deadline. With that said, I used 7 computers from the following calculation: 350 divided by 7 gives 50. I needed the a rounded number to 10 to simplify things and that mathematic made the render scenario easier and made a list on notepad: Computer 1: 40-90
Computer 2: 91-140
Computer 3: 141-190
Computer 4: 191-240
Computer 5: 241-290
Computer 6: 291-340
Computer 7: 341-390 All the frames are saved to the C drive (Original drive for laptops and PCs.) Once I did the rendering, I went back into Nuke (Not NukeX) to render and write out my clip. For my write out I wrote the file type as ".mov", codec is ApplePro Res and the FPS is 24 frames per second. In the next blog I evaluate the VFX work I got assigned on and talk about my VFX final and breakdown video.
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