Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 002
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Hey,
I hope you're not knee-deep in overtime at the moment. Here is this fortnight's wrap up of useful Nuke tools and tips.
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TABTABTAB
This is a custom tab menu for Nuke, created by Ben Dickson.
It's a simple, but incredibly powerful tweak that I honestly can't work without anymore. A couple key features include:
- Searching not just the Nodes menu, but every menu! If you have an extensive scriptlets menu at your studio, being able to search that is invaluable.
- Does substring matching. As you can see in the thumbnail above, you only have to type a couple letters to get the node you're looking for. Typing Scrnd to get a ScanlineRender node is great!
- Your node searches are weighted, meaning the more you create a specific type of node, the closer it will be to the top of the list.
Click here to download it!
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BACK TO BASICS: HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR WORKFLOW BY COMPOSITING EFFICIENTLY
For the less experienced compositors subscribed to this newsletter, and more senior compositors who would like a refresher, I wrote a "compressed" blog post to outline some good practices that will speed up your workflow as an artist, keep Nuke running smoothly & efficiently, and ultimately retain the best possible image quality at the end of your comp.
Click here to read!
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NUKE EXPRESSION NODE 101 & WORLD POSITION MATH
I came across this article written by Matt Estela and Pedro Andrade late last year. It's filled with some great knowledge about how you can use Nuke's expression node to make some simple gradients & patterns, and then puts that math into context to help you understand how world position passes work, and what kinds of things you can do with them. Cool stuff!
Click here to read!
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SLOWMO GUYS: HOW A TV WORKS IN SLOW MOTION
By this point, knowing how TVs work is pretty common knowledge. But that doesn't mean it's not cool to see in slow motion! Definitely worth skipping through when you're waiting on your job to be picked up on the farm...
Click here to watch!
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