Posted on by Paul DeNigris
Here's a cool music video that I worked on with the team at Nocturnal FX. I was responsible for final comp on all but one shot in this. I had a team feeding me mattes, and a 3D artist who provided cloud images which I then used to generate procedural particle clouds in Nuke. Really proud of how this turned out!
Some behind the scenes stuff coming soon!
Posted on by Paul DeNigris
I've started a new series of Nuke tutorials to coincide with the Visual Effects class I'm teaching this Summer at UAT. Here's the first one, a primer for After Effects users to start wrapping their brains around the very different workflow in Nuke.
Posted on by Paul DeNigris
One of the first guys I worked with in Los Angeles, JR Strickland, recruited me to contribute visual effects to a project he was working on, a release teaser for the new album "Everybody" from rapper Logic, which dropped today:
I was tasked with the visual effects for the 2 shots involving the giant painting of the album cover. Provided to me were the following elements:
Original Plate
Tasks I was responsible for:
Tools used:
Completed frame
The biggest challenges on this one were the tight timeframe (less than 48 hours from plates hitting my inbox to delivery of finals), the number of actors in the frame (all the kids run around and cross the painted-out areas in the second shot), and the duration of each of the shots. VFX supervisor JR did a great job supplying the materials and timely feedback, and also tackled some of the roto of the kids to assist me in the final hours. All in all this was a tough gig but very rewarding to see it come to completion and hit the web just a few days later!
