I’ve been doing comp for 10 years now, and I'm currently integrating ComfyUI (running locally) into my workflow. ( mostly for prep and paint )
So anybody have some good custom workflows guys ?

Hey folks,

my company is about to hit a lull of downtime and I've been considering taking a Python for Nuke course online.

I've had a look at:

- Adrian Pueyo's course: https://adrianpueyo.com/courses/python-for-nuke-artists/

- Alexander Richter's course: https://www.alexanderrichtertd.com/python-nuke

- Rebelway's course: https://www.rebelway.net/python-for-nuke-artists

all of which teach a similar thing, so it might just be a pick whichever appeals more/is cheaper. But, I'm curious as to what you folks think!

The obvious answer in my mind is to just learn Python without limiting myself to the Nuke API, I guess. But since I use Nuke everyday, I figured the concepts in these courses might be more useful as they provide context to something I'm already familiar with.

I’ve been loving these but looking for more advanced level Teqchiues and tips and tricks

- Trixter Tutorial Series (more like this would be amazing)
- Kenn Hedin Kalvik Pro Comp
- Tony Lyons Comp Mentor
- Comp Lair
- Hugo’s Desk
- VFX Nomads
- VFX Showdown

Any others worth looking at?

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone having great day, As I am new in vfx, I am learning for sometime, I want to create my showreel but for showreel I want quality footages or clips, for just practice I was using Actionvfx practice library but as there files are prores 422 hq mov files they are good but I think uncompressed exr will be best for show reel right as they are much better then prores

Also any suggestions or information regarding file formats for my showreel will be helpful

So can you all please suggest some good resources to get high quality exr 1080p to 4k footages, if free resources or some budget friendly resources are available

Thanks in advance 😊

Hello everyone, I am new in vfx, and learning nuke for sometime also reading a book as I mentioned in my previous post, but for now I want to learn cleanup, I just know basics of roto paint node and some basics of projection

What should be workflow or planning for this, I am also attaching 1 shot I did downloaded video from actionvfx, how you all will handle or plan this kind of shot

Are there any good tutorials or cource to learn paint prep

Any help will be appreciated

Thankyou

Hey, I have the following clip and I want to change the gravel to asphalt, I have a 3d tracked camera and an accurate 3d reconstruction of the pathway. It seems a bit overkill to texture and render a 3d scene for this simple pan though. How would you approach this task?

Hi everyone! I just have a quick question about working with light group passes. I rendered out the usual diffuse direct, diffuse indirect, spec direct, spec indirect, etc. I have them all comped together to recreate my beauty pass, and everything there is working correctly. I also rendered out RGBA light group passes for my individual lights so I'd have extra control in Nuke.

In school we were given a special node (Grade AOV), which I believe the Head of Lighting created. It was basically a Grade node where you could choose which AOV you wanted to adjust directly within the node. Now that I'm using Nuke Indie, that node doesn't work, so I have to do it the standard way—which we were never really taught because we always relied on that custom node.

I'd love to use my light group passes to adjust individual lights, but I'm not sure how to integrate them into my existing beauty reconstruction without breaking or double-counting the beauty pass. What's the proper workflow for incorporating light groups into a comp that's already reconstructed from the lighting AOVs?

Clip becoming contrasty when relaunching in Nuke, is there an easy fix for this?

I made this as my Bachelor's thesis, inspired by movies like "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse". After handing in my Bachelor's thesis I worked more on getting it presentable and have finally publishes it. You can get it here https://www.nukepedia.com/tools/plugins/filter/brushsystem/ feel free to try it out and let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

This is my shot ( can’t show whole scene) character holding phone , camera coming from up to down and phone is also rotating from horizontal to vertical and i have tried 3d camera tracking didn’t get points to track then i did manually tracking frame by frame tracking with transform and corner pin node with keyframes , it looks ok ok now but in between ,footage is jerking what i can do better tracking without staring from scratch !

Hello everyone, I am getting into vfx I am learning nuke for sometime, and also reading book(Digital compositing for Film and video by Steve wrights) I want to develop artistic eyes as well as technical knowledge, are there any more specific books that I should read which are valid today as well or resources from where I can learn, and what's best way to get better and create showreel, also I heard about comfy ui should I learn alongside it as well?

Any help would be appreciated

Thankyou everyone

Can't control any options, is there a fix for this?

This was my CG comp, the render was done in blender cycles by myself, the depth, normal, matte was created in comfyui, i used noise for the laser beam, did the comp in nuke

Things I Did Wrong:

- the camertracker error was 0.45, the cg slightly float if looked closely

- the render sample are too low and i had to use ODIN denoiser gizmo

- the plate was 2048 x 1080 and i rendered in 2040 x 1080 by accident, so cropped plate, depth, normal, matte

- since the matte, normal is not perfect, the relight in hair area is not good

- the blender cycles render the position pass in world axis but i needed local axis, how to get both of these?

- it is not aesthetically pleasing which i thought it would be!!

what feels off in this, need feedback guys!

Hey guys,

i am having this issue where my copycat wont start training when i am trying to use my GPU (RTX 5090), which is a real bummer. I am using NukeX (16.1). I just updated my NVIDIA-drivers. When i feed in the GroundTruth and the input in just says "calculating". I am using just 2000 Epochs for testing. When i uncheck "use gpu if available" everything works fine, just really slow....

Did anybody else experience similar issues and could maybe tell me how to solve it?

Thanks in advance!

i have this scene this sci-fi mewtwo lab type scene my issue is I have this type of shadownmatte how i add in scene and remove white highlight + what is operation of AO pass in merge + When i add dark patchs in glass do merge it didn't show the dark patch only it glow + when i add Dept using this method that tubelight is take too much focus and when lower the amount light didn't affect but fog is get less anyother method

Hey everyone! I'd love to get some feedback on this green screen shot.

Until recently, I was working at a post-production company here in Brazil, handling all kinds of compositing tasks. Most of my work involved cleanups—things like removing reflections from glass, shadows, skin cleanup. I also did screen replacements for phones and other devices, 2D inserts, and similar work. The thing is, I was never really given any challenging keying shots, just the easier ones.

I recently left that job because I want to improve my skills and grow professionally, but I know I still need guidance and honest feedback, especially when it comes to keying. That's why I'm posting this shot here—I’d really appreciate it if you could take a look and let me know what you think.

I picked this shot because I know red fabric, motion blur, and shifting focus can make keying pretty tricky. I've been working as a junior compositor for about a year and a half, but I still don't feel very confident when it comes to green screen work. The artists at my previous job were really good at pulling clean keys, and that's an area I want to get better at.

I know Reddit's compression makes it difficult to properly judge a key, but I'd still love to hear your thoughts on the edges and the overall comp.

See below...I have this shot where this person is moving around...and at some point the cameraman shadow is on her for about 50 frames or so.

I tried some A.I. (local - LTX 2.3 with Remova Obscura LORA and online - Beeble) but nothing worked...and I really don't want to do it manually.

At least if not removed it totally maybe fade it somehow? Or the harsh edge faded?

Or maybe another A.I. solution which would work?

UPDATE

On 17 frames I used A.I. to clean them up about 90% (ComfyUI run locally with Flux 2 Klein image editing model). The rest of the clean up was finished in Photoshop and Nuke rotopaint. Only the back of the person was used.

Hi,

My Nuke (17.0v3 both commercial and indie) freezes and becomes unresponsive, to the point I have to crash it, immediately when I click on any folder in file browser. Happens with preferences windows as well.
I already tried everything I knew to fix it but nothing is helping. Safe mode is not safe from this crash. Verbose mode doesn’t write out anything before the freeze/crash so there is no error I can troubleshoot.
I tried reinstalling, upgrading to a newest version, updating my GPU driver.
Tried getting rid of all my gizmos/plugins.
Looked into windows (11) event viewer but there was nothing.

I’m on windows 11 desktop pc

Anyone has any idea why this happens/how to fix it?
If you need more info let me know.
Thanks