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“Falcon Lady” Shot Walkthrough Using Nuke and AE

“Falcon Lady” Shot Walkthrough Using Nuke and AE

on Dec 14th 2011 with 13 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects, Nuke, and Trapcode Particular
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 36:49 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this shot we’ll be creating a disintegration transition effect of a woman’s silhouette that falls into dust while morphing into a falcon flying away. We’re going to prepare our single plates needed for the shot in Nuke, as the whole production was based on a Nuke pipeline. However, The main particle transition effect will be in After Effects using Trapcode Particular and a CC Blur.

Tutorial

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File size: 353 MB

 
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I'm a 25 yr old Germany-based VFX Generalist, working in the industry since 2007 after school. I'm working as Senior Compositor and Matchmoving Supervisor at Haus&Gross Communications GmbH at the moment working on international TV commercials, music videos, TV Shows and movies using AE, Nuke, Cinema4d and Syntheyes, as well as AE Camtracker on a daily basis.  

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  • naftolimann

    FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Nikita

      This isn’t failblog or geekologie; keep your immature “First!” to yourself.

  • http://www.youtube.com/PifWorks Meister

    Awsome! Can’t wait to try it

  • Jesse

    Can this technique be used if the footage isn’t a silhouette?

    • http://www.iclickstuff.com/blog Ben Griggs

      Jesse,

      Short answer, yes, but it will take more time and tweaking. The main thing to keep in mind is that a locked shot makes this project allot easier. Tracking and difference mattes will run into immediate issues

      You see the first steps are for extracting a matte from your footage. (A matte is essentially a silhouette) A matte can be created with any footage using a variety of techniques, silhouettes and chroma scenes naturally make this type of matte/roto work allot easier. The same technique of beginning with a difference matte can be a great start as long as the foreground is different enough (hsl) from the plate/background.

      Other than that you are likely to run into issues with color matching/correction, (making the 2 shots blend together naturally) unless you intend to crush both of the foreground shots to a solid matching color.

      -Ben

      PS
      Great tut Alexander, thank you for taking the time to record and share.

  • http://vimeo.com/chriscallow/videos chris

    More Nuke tutorials please!!!!!

  • PavanRzx

    Great Tutorial Thank You :D

  • http://www.youtube.com/benwottonvfx Ben Wotton

    I would love some more Nuke content on the tuts+ network. You get more decent Nuke tuts and I may just have to go premium.

  • tvandang

    is this NUKE.TUTS or AETUTS? :-(

  • http://www.alexander-lehnert.com Alexander Lehnert

    hey all! thanks for the kind words! really hoped for such a response, as it s my first tutorial here in the network!

    really glad you like it a lot, and its of any use for you!

    cheers,

    alex

  • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar

    A very nice tut! BUT it all could have been done in AE alone…NUKE is not really needed!

    • http://www.alexander-lehnert.com Alexander Lehnert

      hey chandan,

      thanks for the kind words!

      yes, you´re totally right! there were some production/pipeline reasons for keeping some stuff in nuke. too long and not necessary to explain in here i guess, at it won’t be of any use to the tutorial.

      but yeah, could´ve been done 100% in AE…

  • Mowk

    i tried to watch this tutorial but, there is no way with those pauses and the “uumm, aaah, mmmm”, makes me want to kill myself… this should have some edition to avoid looong retarded silences….