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ready in the Intro 2 of the Searchlight

promise to the center stage

I grab the first project voice with this mic

and I'm coughing

you ain't my number suck

I'm snuff in the world of the thirsties

hi my name is Jonathan McFall

and I created a tutorial for a CMI effects

and a tutorial is based on

creating a matte painting inside nuke

a little bit about myself

I'm a new artist

I worked on 15 films

three TV shows

and also in advertising

I worked on Judge Dredd at the new

the new film

Harry Potter

the last two films um

men in Black

Three Immortals

Mirror Mirror

Prometheus Dark Shadows

and many other films

I've also worked in different areas

I've worked in stereo

I've worked as in stereo conversion

uh I've worked as a compositor

I've worked as a prep artist

and then before I learnt how to use nuke I was uh

a good few years ago

you know I was a Photoshop lecturer for five years

so my knowledge of nuke

and matte painting stems from different disciplines

and I've learnt how to use nuke as a

as a tool and it's not my favourite tool

and I love it

and nuke gives you so much control

over what you wanna create

and all you need to do is go

and find the right kinds of images

and then you're good to go

and this tutorial

I have included tons of industry production techniques

uh from beginnings

and I'm gonna explaining lots of tricks and techniques

so this is going to be a three hour lecture

and demonstration of

of non stop knowledge

I'm just gonna make you better at Luke uh

gonna show you the easy way to do some things

gonna show you the professional way to do some things

uh you have a bit of extra time

sometimes it's nice to try to the professional way uh

go and include some scripts and expressions um

so you can try and do exactly the way I'm doing it

but also some of the expressions uh

that I will include

for example

like the despil expression

so if you have

if you make a key

and then you know

you're getting a bit of spelling

from the blue or from the green

I'll show you how to get rid of that um

and then you know

list of the things we're gonna be doing

gonna be showing you how to create nice alphas and roto

and then a silhouette of

to create a nice factory

and then I'll show you how to use the 3

the 3D scene

and the cameras and projections

and then after the 3D scene

I'm gonna show you how to use a

Zebler and the Foggle plane setup

and then after that

I'm gonna show you how to uh

finish off the images

but you know

we're gonna create a custom Boca with a convolve tool

uh gonna use the detail expressions

on blue and green screens

gonna show you how to

regrowing something professionally

uh gonna show you how to make the final grade

to get the colours that we want

we're gonna add some

uh create uh

some chromatic aberration

or chromatic distortion

gonna show you several different methods for that

and then also

gonna show you how to create a panoramic image

so in theory

your camera can go into the 3D scene

and it can pan across the entire image

so I've included all of this in this tutorial

uh I think it's gonna be very useful to you

um if you want to learn some more about matte painting

or you want to learn about more

more about uh

nuke in general

or the 3D stain and nuke uh

you won't be disappointed

there's tons of information in this

uh tutorial

I actually wish I had this kind of thing

when I was learning it

so there you go

that's about it

and I hope you sign up

hi there this is John McFall

and I'm gonna be showing you today

how to create this cool matte painting I made

I'm gonna be showing you lots of different techniques

um I'm gonna be showing you how to create this

but where for this tutorial

the main thing we're gonna do

is kinda focus on this area okay

and to create this image

I've used lots of different images from the internet

um and I've got neat

I've neatly organised them for you right here

so I get through these in a second

after that I'll show you how I build up my script uh

to get to different stages within this map painting

and after that

once I made the map painting

we're gonna put it into the 3D cent of nuke

uh and what is in there

we can put a camera into it

and take advantage of the features in the camera

like we can move the camera

we have the camera panning across

we can be zooming in a little bit

it will have parallax

clouds coming

moving etcetera

etcetera okay

so what I wanna do

first of all

I show you how to try and get to Wild Course

stage 1 of this map painting

and the main feature of this map painting is this

okay so what we wanna try and do

is get something that looks like this

okay so what I've included in this file

which you can open up

okay is uh several stages

so we got this stage one

where you can see how I'm actually building the factory

I get back to this for a second

you can see that it's just compiled

out of lots of different kinds of

a mechanical images

um images from the old binaries

construction sites

anything like that

that I could find

okay so this one

which is a full panoramic shorts

which I made um

the reason you might be making something like this

is so the camera can completely panic across the screen

um you know

the composers can use it

have actors

live action in front of it

anything you want

I also made another HD version

slightly different

but uh here we go

it's a couple different versions

and also for the stage 1 version

which we can use for reference whilst we're making this

so if I go through

just made this up for a second

if I just go through

and show you

what kind of images I got for you

got quite a lot

as you can see

I don't necessarily need to use all of these

you also don't need to make your comp

exactly the same as mine

but if you want to you can

cause everything I used is inside here

you have the few extra images in here as well though

so if I look at

for example

at the images which I used to make the factory

okay construction images

essentially

now some of these images are gonna be very easy to key

hang this out for a second

and the thing with the blue sky is gonna be easy to key

now I chose these images on purpose

because I thought this will make my life a lot easier

if every images like this

and I had to cut everything apart with a bit of proto

it would take a lot longer

so I tried to make everyone's life a bit easier

by choosing images

which I thought would be easy to keep

for example

all of these

okay so when you go through

show the simple process of king it as nothing special

but um if you need to Nick

I know you might want to have a look

okay what we gonna do is go through all these images

and what we have to do is

pull apart our favourite parts

so in this for example

I'm gonna want take the bridge

okay in this one

I obviously wanna take this big thing

and then I got lots of different images like this

I wanna take this helipad

for example

and the rest of this image

um this big main looking thing here

wanna peel all of that

okay I wanna have different kinds of pylons

I wanna make this factory look really interesting

and organic

but a mechanical

and so really wanna

it's worth spending the time to try and create

uh a lot of different images uh

that will combine together in a really cool way

cut background images like cranes

okay so lots of images

which you can use case

that's the row 1

I guess row 2

row 1 will be the finals

and row 2 will be the factory images

and then row 3

got different kinds of lights

cause we're making a night scene

I look at this for

I get back to here for a second

night time scene

we're gonna make a factory

we need to light it up to make it real

so we got these factory images

now after we got lights

which we can again key

and put in different images

and different areas around the image

okay and then after that

we've got a background sky and images

and background kinda scenery images

which we're gonna put the composition into

got several different kinds of moons got mountains

different kinds of clouds as well

okay then finally um

once you've keyed three or four yourself

you're gonna realise oh my God

do I actually have to key all 30 of these images

well to save you a bit of time

I've gone through and keyed them myself

k not all of them

but the majority of these

I've gone through and keep them myself

so you can see it has the image

and it has the alpha with it

so you know

if you want to go in and make a better key

that's absolutely fine

but you know

if you get sick of king after about five minutes

feel free to go ahead and use any of these

which will you know

you can still make a good job

if you just use these ones

okay so first thing I'm gonna do is also

I took these images from the internet

and then none of them were uh

the correct size

I'm gonna be working in HD

1920 by 1080

okay and that's what the final thing is gonna be

but of course the images were not like that

cause they're from people's cameras

um you know

or literally anywhere from the internet

so what I had to do

just so they know

on top of all these images

I had to bring them in one by one

and I had to add a reef format note

and underneath the reform I need

I need to add

I need to make sure

that the output is going to be on HD hopes

where is it HD

okay and also

while I'm over here

in the property settings

I need to press s

and that should take us to the project settings

and then make sure where it says full size format

make sure that also says HD

and then if you reform it

if you had a reform underneath anything else

it will automatically make it HD

okay so I did all that for you and um

well let's uh

let's try and get cracking

see if we can start uh

to try and come some of this stuff together

okay so what I'm gonna be doing now

I've already shown you uh

all the images which I can give you okay

and then I've describe briefly how to reform out them

and then you have these two kind of master images

which we can look at

and we're gonna use this image here

quite a lot to reference at least

I'm gonna use it right now when I made it but um

just to remind myself how to actually put it together

and all the different parts that I used

I'm gonna use this image to look at

and you can do as well if you want to

okay so what I wanna do first of all

is show you just a couple of keys

I mean it's very basic

but um you know

if you haven't done it too much

then please have a look

okay so I got the uh

if I just do it again on the side

this up for a second

okay so if I just add a primer

okay look at this one

now I look at this one for a second I hold on control

click on top of here

there we go

alright now I just drag this out for a second

so I can see a bit better what I'm doing

okay so now I want to clean the background noise

so clean background noise

if I just press a for a second on top of here

I can see the alpha

see I'm actually doing a bad job

so clean background noise over here as well

always look at the alpha when you're trying to do a key

it's only important part

after that you can always look at the RGB

okay so I'm not gonna be able to get a perfect job

after that I'm actually gonna create a small rotor

but I can try and improve that a little bit

if I get a clean foreground noise

okay hold on control for a second

or immaculate

hold on command

or the apple key sorry

hey great that's good enough

and that looks pretty good for there

I need to do a bit of roto

unfortunately to fix this part

so I've done it here already

but I'll just show you just in case

it's very straightforward

okay now what I need to do is just on the roto node

now I'm doing this fairly quickly

but if you want your products look nice

spend the extra time trying to key these things nicely

trying to rotate them nicely

because if everything looks good

then your master image or your final image

will look really good

okay you can't put rubbish in

and expect to get amazing stuff out

so spend an extra half an hour or an hour

making these parts really nice

okay so I've almost finished

okay I've done that already

I feel like this

okay so this is basically my garbage mat

I don't want any of this

but if I look at this

it's basically created all of this white okay

so inside the roto paint tool

I'm gonna go to inside here

okay I'm gonna change this alpha to black

excellent okay

now it's gonna get rid of all this

if I change the alpha to RGB

it still has all this white inside here

so I'm gonna get rid of that

if I go to the rotor paid node

output RGBA to alpha

there we go

now after that if I just add a pre multiply

here we go perfect

K so that's what I did here

and that's why I'm gonna do

essentially to almost every one of these images

I'm just gonna delete that

cause I've already done it

k so I got this image like I just showed you

a little primer

a little key

uh sorry a little roto

you wanna see the difference

until you premise

pre multiply it

now if I look at this for a second

a lot of the images I've taken

are photographs taken in the daytime

but the image I'm trying to create

is like a night time scene

okay so all those kind of metal

mechanical pieces are like black or dark grey

so on all of these image

oh yeah on all of these images

I'm go at the bottom

once you pre multiplied it

I'm gonna add a grade note

make it nice and dark and add a saturation note

and basically get rid of most of the colour

now you can't really see what I'm doing anymore

okay so what I'm gonna do is basically add

I just hold this for a second

if I just type in constant

oops constant

and look at this for a second

I'm gonna change the constant colour to just say grey

that's fine now again

because the project settings are sold correctly

this is automatically gonna be HD

and if I just merge this

over there

I can see much more clearly what it is I'm trying to do

and there you go

come on

there's my little crane or whatever it is

okay so this is what I'm gonna do

and this is how

if I just show you

I've actually done this a few more times already

I'm just delete this

okay so I started to add these things together already

I've keyed a few of these things already

they're very

very simply keyed

and at the bottom of it I had emerged

and then I've added a constant into the B channel

uh so that's uh

you can see roughly what I'm doing

come on

okay just hold on one second for this to appear

and as you can see from the way this looks

this is how I created my stage 1

all this grey stuff

is not gonna be there in the final thing

it's just that right now

the image is looking quite dark

so this is how we're gonna prepare the image

prepare this big factory so we can see it nicely

see all the details

after that we're gonna add lights into it

after that we're gonna add

other mechanical pieces around the edges and um

and then we go from there

so you can see it's starting to appear

it's starting to look nice

okay let me just show you exactly how I made this

because I might have kinda

jumped ahead a few stages too far

it's only made up couple images

they're very straightforward

ah yes also ha

almost forgetting

now I gave you

I already mentioned this

but I gave you the factory images

and I gave you the lights

and I gave you the background images and the skies

and I gave you the keyed images as well

OK so I have keyed a couple of them

to show you how I did it

are these two mechanical pieces

and I've keyed this one as well

so I wanted to keep all of this

so again Primark here

get rid of all the blue

I'm gonna show you a Despil technique

okay that I got a Despil script to give you

uh which I use quite often to get you know

if you got a blue bleeding into the actual image

okay I'll show you how to get rid of that

okay now if I just go to the rotor

but I did the same thing over here that I did over here

so I had a rotor note to get rid of that

and then premulse applied it

now saturation grade

make it darker

and then I what I wanted to do

if I show you in my

uh image over here

this image I actually didn't use on this side

I use this image vertically

like this okay

so what I wanna do is take this image after I graded it

I'm gonna mirror it to flip it

and I transform onto its side like this

like this so this

okay so it was like that

now it's like that okay

so I'm literally making up how these machines are used

they're obviously not used like this

but you know

we're making up a matte painting

it really doesn't matter what are we doing

as long as it looks good

okay so why can't I not see what I'm doing

hang on this one

okay sorry silly me

okay let's make sure we're looking after this

let me see what we're doing

okay okay alright

so if I just hide these images one by one

you can see what I've done

okay so I've got right now I've got this image

oh no I don't which one is it

yeah I've got this image

okay which I rotate and keyed and I made it smaller

and I'm basically mostly on top of the great background

now if I just show you this one I did it

I'm gonna show you how I made this one

it's very simple

this is the original image

I reformastered it to make it smaller

I added the luma key which you can't see any difference

this is already black and white

so make sure you pressing a if using the luma key

and you can see I made it darker

alright and then I wanted to keep all of this

so I added a roto note

and then after that I wanted to add another roto note

to get rid of this

and then after that I inverted all of it

so this is gonna

I got this nice big chunk in here of the factory

and I've also got some nice fringing kinda details

almost like vignetteing the uh

the factory itself

the scaffolding

hi so what I'm gonna do

what I was just showing you a few seconds ago

is that how to create this nice alpha for this building

this is gonna be the main kind of chassis

the building blocks for this factory

that we're gonna use

because I really loved this kinda scaffolding details

make it feel like the factory was not only being used

but being built itself

OK alright so I've uh

already explained how to do that

transforming it

and obviously when

I'm sorry um

I use the limb key

which gave me this

I gave this then this

now if I want to pre multiply it

I'm gonna keep

but the pre multiply basic keeps the white

gets rid of the black

so if I get it in thirds

and make sure that the channel is only on alpha

so if I only the alpha

I basically wanna keep the white

and now when I pre multiply it

I keep the white

so if I change the a to RGB

there you go

now because the key

the limit key

okay eggs uh

I was a little too generous

without keeping these white edges

but the same time

not too worried about that

because I'm gonna use the shape of this

I'm gonna make it darker

so I'm gonna lose all these edges

that's gonna be absolutely fine

alright so I multiply it

transform into place

now when I was transforming this into place

if you want to make sure you get it

in a fairly similar place to the way where I do it

okay just go over to one of this

this kind of master image

this one reference image

press 1 onto that

and if I go down to here

to underneath transform

and I press number two

oh come on yep

now over here at the top of the screen

if I click onto this and change that to wipe

you can see where the images are okay

in relation to each other

this is the one that I'm using as reference image to

and this is the one that I'm making

okay so I can go through with the transform tool

and I can scale it a little bit bigger

or a little bit smaller

I think it was pretty close where it was

again if it's a little bit different

it doesn't matter too much

caption get rid of this white tool

now again that's just the top of the screen

change that to zero

alright so now I've got this image here

now if I just uh

disable this much tool

if I just enable that for a second

you can see that

this is kind of the base part of my factory

so I press 1 onto there

and then 2 onto there

you can see

okay this is what I used

to create the base image of this factory okay now

let me show you a few other things that I've been up to

I I also took one of the images which I keyed already

if I just go over to here for a second

and try and find out which one it was

can't quite remember

ah alright it was one of these images

with a big chimney

and I keep it

if you want to go through and find it

and keep another chimney shop

if not that's fine

you can just go through and try and work out

which one of these

I keep quite a lot of different images

which have chimneys

uh

let's camera this up for a second

no that's a similar chimney there

that's what I wanted so I copied that

okay and I put it there

have a look at this for a second

now this okay

so I keep this previously

again I'm gonna grade it

which makes it very dark

which means I can't see it and transform it

so again you can't see what I'm doing

but once again if I just view it after this

and you can see that I'm actually viewing

the image

so if I just enable that

you can see

there it is

so I use the transform tool to take these

I wanted to create some big uh

factory like pieces

there's a famous factory in England

called the Badacy power uh plant

Badacy power factory

something like that

it's always create something similar

this is big

almost like horns coming out the top of it

okay so there we go

big dramatic factory

alright and then a few other things

they're gonna hide in this one already

so let's just enable this

excellent some of these parts

are looking darker than others

don't worry about it too much right now

try and think about

getting a great looking silhouette going

K after that

you can go in

and if I just uh

place of all been enabled now

do you want to make something darker

is that a great note

okay add a roto shape move it where you want to be dark

okay obviously inside the get inside the grade note

just use the camera

bang it down

don't worry too much about making this look perfect

we are no way near finished

okay so now what I wanna do

if I look again at my reference image

we wanna start bulking it up

we've done this part already

we've done this part already

we've got the factory here

k what I wanna do

is start adding all these kind of pieces

hey so I'm gonna go ahead

I'm gonna start adding a couple

and I'm gonna pause for a few minutes

and then I'd like you to go ahead

try and start looking at these images

transforming them into place

keep looking at back of this reference image

to see what I've done

where I've put it

how big I've made them in relation to each other

which one's in front of each other

you know which one's in front

which one's behind

and um so we can go ahead like that

so let's just see for a second

what do we have here

what I want to use

and camera this up for a second

yeah this will work

I wanna use this image

I wanna put it behind

this image so

the way I set up this script is very simple

basically I put this image

which is the main block oops

this is the main kind of factory image

and I put it there in a script

okay so everything I wanna put behind it

I wanna put here

everything I wanna put in front of the

at the factory which I'm gonna put here

as a very straightforward to this thing

I wanna merge this

and look down here

top is gonna be way too big

so straight away so the transform tool scale it

I want this thing to appear to be some kind of platform

okay where's that gone

oh I scale too much

okay there we go

it's gonna be some kind of big platform

with a big crane coming off it

not quite sure what it does

but it looks really good

now again if I want to reference the size of the shape

I just press No. 1 onto there

you can see that that's exactly where I put it

so I press one

No. 1 onto this reference image

gonna press 2 after here

and you can see if I just press 1 and 2

I didn't quite get in the right place

it's also a bit too small

now again it's not necessarily at all

to make exactly the same as mine

but the composition looks pretty good

so you know

feel free to

make it exactly the same as you want

okay so

okay great this is actually looking pretty good

you got a big organic spiky looking factory

no okay alright

so now what you wanna do is try and bulk up the edges

perhaps let's add some other things around the edges

and then after let's add some lights

this thing will not look good until we add lights

okay so once again

look at this

alright so how we gonna

what we gonna do

we gonna add lights

okay let's add some lights straight away okay

now I've given you a bunch of different kinds of lights

so where are they lights

where are they

hi there they are

I pre key these lights okay

so you can use them and copy that

okay you don't have to copy

you can just drag it over

but just so I can remember what I have

I'm going to copy that again

it's gonna go

actually this one's gonna go

oops come on select

Kay this one's actually gonna go

straight on top of here

sorry

okay that's fine anyway so if I just paste that there

now these are these are lights

now if you look at these two images together

I have this image which okay

let's look at this from the bottom

so we can see what we're actually making

I have this image

and I have this image here which I googled

now this image has nothing to do with this image

apart from the fact that

it's a fairly similar perspective

this looks like a big old building

but we're adding

we're making it look modern now by adding all the stuff

and then there we have this kind of uh

I I just googled um

and what did I Google at night time lights

and I came up with this picture

K but I put it out in ikedas

I put now for into it

in the same way that I prepared these ones

if I just go straight in

merge node a over B

and let's see what it gives us

it's in the wrong place

that's fine

this is transform into place

okay so literally

I added a over B with a transform node

ah looking for interesting but it's too big

that's looking too small now it looks pretty good

you can see

but it doesn't fit the stretch of the building

oh that's too big

that looks pretty interesting

doesn't quite fit yet

so spend the next few minutes

oh yeah perfect

okay got the top floor and the lights lining up roughly

the top floor of this factory

similar to the bottom floor

doesn't quite fit but

I think we can make that work tiny bit bigger

tiny bit smaller

that's okay

the bottom like

the bottom doesn't need to have any lights on

it's okay it sort of has lights

along the top floor of the bottom of the factory

excellent so now what I don't wanna have

is lights all over this place

so if I just zoom out for a second

so I've added some lights

that looks pretty good already

squint your eyes a little bit

that looks pretty good

now what I'm gonna do

is just move the script over a little bit

starting to get a bit crowded

that's fine

okay so now what I wanna do

I wanna get rid of these lights

and I wanna apply these lights to a different area

but not right now

so what I wanna do is basically erase these parts

alright so gonna go in

add a paint note

so roto paint

gonna change this one here

close down tool to reveal tool

and then make sure that it's on all

okay so if I just move this over for a second

normally this says single

make sure it's on all

cause if it doesn't

you're going to remove these uh

lights from just a single frame

and that's not good

now um must apologise for uh

constantly stopping us telling the lesson

it's just that uh

when you start to add 50 images into your new script

it will start to slow down a little bit okay

and then since you're actually re formatting um

rotor painting

transforming grating everything

it's definitely gonna slow down a little bit

so if this happens to yourself

just make sure you are saving your script

every now and then

um I'd save every 5 minutes

to be honest

just save over it again

obviously just go file save as

and just save up as another version

maybe version 2

let's just type into the

oops sorry just so you can see what I'm doing

I would just uh

every now and then

just save this whole thing as a

save version 2

and if 10 minutes more

I'll save up as version 3

okay now your computer is gonna start to slow down

it's gonna start to slow down

the more of the stuff you add

the more it's gonna start to slow down

so what we could do is just go

in and render each one of these

so rather than

we don't need to put a computer

to process all this information

just to just to get a little thing down here okay

but we also don't need to render this out one by one

we don't need 1 2 3

4 5 6 renders okay

I like the way this looks

it's got a nice alpha

it's clean nice alpha looking

the RGB is looking pretty good as well

don't worry about these white edges

we'll fix that

so this looks pretty nice

so what I'm gonna do is just write out this file

so I'm gonna write

and then I'm gonna go to oops on this hound

so I can see what I'm doing

now the name of my folder is at home and then desktop

and then my folder is Night Factory

one of the things I love about note

cause you can just type it in and it finds it

9 factory elements and scripts

that's where I'm saving it to

and I'm saving this into the horrendous factory

I'm just gonna call this uh

rendous factory and paste out there

and I'm gonna save it as dot tiff

we're not rendering out an image sequence

if you were to render out an image sequence

you would render it out as dot percent 0 5 d

dot tiff uh

this is 0 5 d

as for the padding

if you ever have to render an image sequence

this is where you have to render it

okay but since we're not doing that right now

we will do that later

but for right now all we need is a dot TEF

now you're safe

now I definitely want to render this out uh

with the Alge

with the alpha

cause right now if I press a onto this

you will not see an alpha

sorry make sure you can see what I'm doing

but there is obviously an alpha in this image

if I look at it

so always make sure in the right note

you're actually rendering this out as an RGBA

and keep everything else the same uh

colour space ice srogb

uh 8 bit TIFF

everything's fine

I render out with a

render out one frame

so if for example

it says 1 to 100

just make sure this is one frame for now okay

that was very quick

because it's just processing one frame

now if I just go to my image

I can read in

I can different ways to read in

I can get a read okay

I can click on to it and copy that

just like that copy that

now if I just go to read

I just paste uh

right click and then paste down to there

it finds out automatically

and there you go

that's one way to do it

other way of course

is just to drag it in from the desktop

wherever you rendered it

to okay cool

now what I wanna do is just

uh let's just

let's leave this right note here

to remembers what

where we got it from

just drag this to here

k so you wanna constantly do this

your script will get heavier and heavier

the more stuff you put on to it

especially by the end

if you put all this stuff into it

it will definitely get much heavier

so what we are right now

where we are right now

there we go

got this factory

got some lights on to it

we're gonna put more lights

once we work out where everything else is gonna go

so right now

let's try and add a few more things

once again just to remind myself

what is it we need

we need this big thing here

other crane here

spiky thing back here

long thing here

traffic lights here

we got some flames going

we also gonna add some flames at the top of this

some moving flames

okay so okay

let's try and find this thing here

this big long thing

alright so again

I did care everything alright

there it is

that's cool

gonna copy that

and again it's gonna go

it's gonna go in the background

it's gonna go

but it's also gonna be inside of this

so where I put it it's not

doesn't matter too much

first paste it here

okay now again merge oops

what did I just do

and if you just make a mistake

obviously just controls that or Mac Apple keys that

okay if I just paste

nope if I just go to merge

okay now I want to merge this image

but this image is too big so that's fine

it's gonna be this transform tool

maybe over there brilliant way too big though

that's what I want something like this

now this image

this looks pretty good

but actually all I'm interested in right now

is this big thing up here

now again if I just look at this for a second

just to see what I was doing

cool you can see

okay well this one I'm making right now is too big

oh

this one this one's too big

okay we're never gonna go any of this stuff perfect

cause I don't even remember exactly

how I transformed it in the first place

but there you go

um damage is now on top of it

and you can see

we're starting to build up this factory scene

I'm gonna cover this

by the way uh with uh

the background uh

with the foreground image of the ground

so not too worried about how this looks

at this part here

starting to get a little bit messy

let's just swap these inputs

so we have a over there

that's better as I said

this part is gonna be covered by the ground anyway

so not too worried about that

but if you are

it always just going out of pain note

just be sure when you're adding a pain note

don't ever have oops

grab a handstand tool and then go to eraser

now again where it says single

just change this to all

if you're gonna add a cleanse down tool

or paint tool or roto node

first look at this for a second see what I'm doing

okay that's strange why did that not work

reveal till sorry

changes to all

here we go now you can see it here

the more of these I had

the more of these you'll get

I work with different companies

some of them say don't have more than 300

some of them say don't have more than 100

cause it will start to crash

but basically

the more you have

the more it'll crash

so if I was to ever use more than about 50 or 100

I wanna go in a render out that file

so the computer doesn't have to process

every single time you do anything

okay so now I got this one

this one over there

that's brilliant

okay we wanna add some in between images

once again quick reference image

just see okay

we want some crane stuff

crane action going

we want some of this tall stuff going here as well so

okay where is it

hmm camera for a second

so I can see what I'm actually doing

I already use that one

you don't wanna overuse any of these images

okay that that will do

that one will also do we'll use that one in a second

okay there we go

alright um hmm

okay we're gonna use this one or this one

we're gonna use this one right now

I'm gonna copy that one

and uh not quite sure where we get

okay I'm gonna put it behind here

so I gotta add a merge note

this one's gonna be a

this one's gonna be B

cause I want this to be behind this I think

yep that's right

so I mean this part of composing is very

we're barely composing

we're just literally adding images together

one behind another

just to create a cool looking silhouette

and we're just dealing with generally speaking

black and white images

hope for this stage nice big factory

let's make this smaller

this is supposed to be a middle part okay

it's almost like a bridge

from one part of the factory to another

so let's just put this down there

we don't wanna make these dice details

look too confusing

so you don't wanna overlay

you know if I put this thing big here

I'm not gonna see this nice crane

so let's just think about the composition

rather than the practicality of how these things work

doesn't really matter

hey something like that looks pretty good

it got nice flow between the images

we need something else here

again now once you've actually made any of these

we can always move these around

even if we have to

we can go back and move these around

and then render this one out again

absolutely no problem with that

all we all we have to do is just move it

click onto that

render that one again

and then bang

he'll render it out again

so now we got this one stage

go back to our reference image

okay let's uh let's try and find this one

so again we got this building it's looking pretty good

nice composition

nice there it is

Kay usual hair will be

let's just see what it gives us

okay a massive crane of some sorts

and to transform that straight away so all the images

the first thing I'm doing is just taking the image

transforming it getting it rough into place

and there you go let's put it behind

and it's behind that's okay

yeah I think it looks pretty good

I'm also gonna pause this video for now

and I'm going to go ahead

and finish off the rest of this silhouette myself

and then you should do the same thing yourself

go through try and pick out your favourite

keys from here

also give it a go

try and look through somebody's images

try and find something that perhaps I haven't used

maybe there's nice cranes into here

maybe there's some nice structural objects

or some lines into here

so try and find your favourite parts and uh

try and make yourself a nice silhouette

use you know

I've not used parts of this

but there's no reason why not

I got some nice textures and nice lines

as mechanical looking things going on here

okay so go through and

uh you know

you can also

you can make the factory look part derelict

and a part barren

as if it's been abandoned

and then part of it could be alive

there's nothing wrong with that

it's actually quite interesting oh

got a nice helicopter pad

make sure you get that in there

I will do that right now

okay so I'm gonna go ahead

I'm gonna finish off my silhouette

and then uh

I'm gonna stop recording

I'm gonna start recording again

I'm gonna show you my finished off silhouette

a kind of small update that I've made

I've added a few extras

pie pieces to the

my silhouette

I've gone and added a bit of

few pieces over here

few small pieces over here

I've added an extra kind of pylon to my other pylon

to make it to bulk it up a little bit

I've also gone in and added a few lights

let me just show you roughly how I did that

I went through again to my lighting scene

and then bit by bit

if I just look at this for a second

and then hide the other ones

you'll see that one by one

I just transformed the image around

and I added like some highlights here

and I added some spotlights here

and I added some more funky lights onto here

I'm not sure if that's too much yet

we'll soon see

I should just transform the image around

so I took this image

transformed it all the way around

I thought that will fit very nicely onto

onto one of the chimneys

erase what I didn't need and again

I will need to do some clean up on this part after

and then I look at this

so now if I look at this

great I've now got uh

some pretty cool lighting on the scene

I can add some more

or I can take away as much as I want

but for now

I've got a little bit of lighting

on some of the important kind of pieces in this image

and so what we're gonna do now

we're gonna go through

and clean up our scripts a little bit

uh soon enough

we're gonna put this hole into the 3D stain

and at that point

I really wanna get rid of all these different

kind of loose connections

I wanna join out some of these parts together

um this kind of silhouettes

is mostly gonna be in the background

um at least some of these parts

so I wanna wanna separate these parts

maybe onto one card in the 3D scene

and I wanna have this part separately

so I can have it come come uh

coming forwards in the 3D scene

and then maybe some of these parts

can be on one card as well

so I wanna kind of uh

maybe render out some of these again

slightly um

and uh for example um

I want right now

what I rented out earlier um

this whole scene here

we just look at this

remember this is the first I rented out

remember but

I actually want this part to be separate to this part

put this camera up for one second

okay I want this part to be separate to this part

cause this part is obviously further behind

so I've added another right note

just underneath uh

where I put uh

the factory itself

um put this camera down for a second

so we can see

so remember

I got the factory finished uh

case chassis

and I got the lights on top of it

I just wanna render that out separately um

and I'm gonna gonna

gonna gonna

sorry gonna

gonna continue uh

to go ahead and actually render out uh

a few of these things separately

so this is gonna be uh

render factory

I'm just gonna call this frame

oops frame and then underscore 1 maybe

okay so I'm gonna uh go ahead and render this one else

okay just one frame okay excellence now

uh now if I just wanna read that in for a second

hi hey give me one second whilst this loads

okay so I'm just gonna copy this

come on why didn't that work

okay

okay so copy all that

now press read

paste into there

open that one up

great so now I have that one

so now I have it rendered out there

I actually don't want it obviously

to be connected to there

so I'm just gonna render this one out separately

without the actual chassis

let's just see what that gives us

and this is kind of the background elements

but still a part of the factory

so I'm gonna go ahead and render this one out again

uh render factory

and let's just call this a BG

element oh let's just call this a BG oil rig

sorry I actually remember what it is oil

rig

right now let's just bring this one in as well

try again just gonna like that

excellent now these two things are just big

so this is exactly the same thing

it's just that now they cut

we have them separately

so we have more control

once we put them into the 3D scene

so now that I have them

I can just go through a 2

this is what

this is what it gives me when I add them together

so I need to merge them together

so it's just gonna be a over B

and it gives me exactly the same thing

so I can just replace that

so I don't need this one anymore

okay now I wanna go through and do the same thing uh

so I'm just gonna very simply work out

which one of these elements in the background

uh are actually close together

so I've already worked it out

so these ones

if I look at this now

just remember

these are the different parts of the silhouette

so if I look through down here

I just gamma down for a second so see what we're doing

now if I just go ahead and add these oops

if I just go ahead and deselect some of these

merge notes by pressing d obviously

you can see that those parts

are actually very close together

so I can put them onto one cards no problem

hey so I'm gonna go ahead and select

another one of those

okay I'm gonna go ahead and do this

I'm gonna pause the video for a few minutes uh

so go through anything that's very close to each other

that obviously

doesn't need to be on a separate card in a 3D scene

go through just merge them together

write out one file

literally the simplest is

we don't wanna have any transformers left after um

uh we don't wanna have any paint nodes

we don't wanna have any grade nodes

or anything like that um

we just wanna have the separate image fading into here

and after that

it's gonna be really simple to put into the 3D scene

if we have to put

if we have to start feeding this information now

if we have to start

you know using the primer

and then Kias and reversing it and primulsifying it

mirroring it

transforming it

and then fade into the 3D seat

and then it also has to work out what that's doing

uh it's gonna slow down the computer a lot

OK so just to make our life as simple as possible

let's constantly try and refine our scripts

make it very simple

and of course

you gonna save different stages

you can save

you can save

like stage one

um you know

including all the nodes

and then you can have a stage 2 um

all nodes are rendered out

and then you have stage 3

uh the 3D scene

okay so I'm gonna go ahead and render this

okay so now

we're going to do something quite satisfying

I've gone through the script

and I really simplified it a lot

um everything that was very close to each other

I literally grouped together

had to move some things around

so you know

after looking at this

I now rendered out this

brilliant so I put this camera for a second

so all this together

it's a bunch of little mechanical parts

put that together

and I rendered that out

just one frame was there

that's excellent

I can now delete this

oops okay one more thing

before I delete everything

I my script looks a little bit messy for a second

uh the only annoying part that I had to do remember

I added the lights

I actually uh

took one of the light

the photographs of light

uh which is

huh okay now remember

I transformed different parts of it around

now I wanted to be able to put the lights back

onto the correct part

so I had to take a

you know I had to pull out um

some some of the information

and then merge it back on top of the correct card

and then write that one out

uh that way I can delete all this stuff

and just be left for the

left the last few images

so I'm gonna go ahead and do that now

so excellent

now cause you don't have to do this

if you have an amazing computer at home

then that's absolutely fine

feel free to use this

um I just know that most people who who can watch this

to this tutorial are perhaps not gonna have you know

they're gonna work on their own home computer

so from that point of view

why would you make your computer slow down suffer

or we can make it much easier for it then again

just save all the different scripts and then I

you can always go back

to refer to them as different stages okay so

this is quite satisfying

cause I know that it's still gonna work

and I'm using just a couple of notes

to get exactly the image that I want

okay so if I look at this for a second oops

okay now I've got the same image

now first of all

if I look at this

I realise this is looking very very light

if I compare this once again

so look at this

this is all we're left with

and this is what we're gonna put into the 3D scene

then perhaps we'll add a couple more cards

or we still have to add the uh

mountains in the background

stuff like that

then we can always

we can always uh

add up some more things as well

okay so what we wanna do now

if we just compare this image for a second

see my neck is running perfectly now

obvious obviously

cause any 5 things attached to it anyway

um if I just compare my one to this one

you realise

first of all

that if I look at

remember I gave you this image

it's like a

an image to make a reference from

and if I compare this one to this one

I actually you know

when I put this one

when I merge this on top of the scenery

I had to move it up quite a lot

so I can do that in a minute

I literally just transformed it up

see that in a second

but then also this image here

if I look at this one

this pie is looking very very light grey

don't worry about this pie

this actually might help us uh

to merge this on top of the grass

we can delete some parts

lay some parts there

but this part in general is looking too grey

so gonna go in

work out where it is there obviously

now I can just go in and add a gradenote perhaps

make sure I'm looking at the gradenote

okay maybe that's the call we're looking for

just see the difference before and after

that's looking a bit better actually

it's looking a lot better

if I just once again

that was just a great note after

need the factory

that's looking much better

I can delete some of the stuff as

as when I need to again

I added the flames into there

we've only got one movie image into this

let's have a look at this

got some nice flames

gonna be coming out of one of the chimneys

so we gonna have to reform out that

transform that into place

so that's tiny little thing

okay excellent

so now I got this

now I wanna do is perhaps transform it

um upwards so that it's roughly the same place

as it's supposed to be

so there's that

that's where it is right now

so just I mean

we know it is but anyway

just so you know

oops

I did it

okay sorry

there's this image

okay so everything's roughly in the same place

again you can

you can spend as much time as you want

moving these images around

I've got the nice lights added now into this

got the spotlights into here

spotlights into here

all different lights into this towers

I can still get rid of this one if I want to

anyway what I wanna do now

this is the reference image

I wanna merge this one

I wanna erase this one higher

so it now as high as that one

so it fit nicely on top of the land that I have

okay so I'm gonna add

remember I don't actually want this gray thing

to be in the final thing at all

so I'm gonna transform node just above it

cause the whole thing is gonna be moved up

okay double click on this to make sure we see this

I just view this and then I view this image here

now again we wanna compare

now comparing images is quite important

especially if you ever get a job working the prep team

for example

you have to build to make stuff exactly the same

so if I go to white

okay so I can see before and after

okay now quickly I can just

just go to see

why does it really matter where or that

okay let's just use these towers at the top

as a reference

you can see used to be a fair amount higher

that's pretty close

okay that's about close enough for now

again you can spend more time tweaking it

but I think that will still look good

okay so now that's the right place now

so we moved

moved the whole thing up quite a lot

now that we moved it up

it's time to go and look at the crap

the land and the background sky

so again I put them over here

I put them over here into the sky

so here they are

and I drag them down

I had this already pre multiplied for you

all I did was just literally kit

I will rotate some parts when I want to clean that up

and I have this guy which might be too dark

we can always grade that

no problem so again

I don't really need this great background anymore

I can always leave it at the bottom in case I wanna see

remind myself what it was

so I got this image

and I wanna merge this on top of this

but this background

this background

it's the foreground okay

but this part here is actually the background

so with this image needs to be merged underneath

so the a is gonna go to there

cause this uh

the city factory needs to go on top

this one's gonna go there

there we go excellent

looking a bit dark right now but we can uh

we'll fix that in a second

OK so now that's there

we need to put the sky in as well

the sky also needs to go

uh behind everything of course so another one

okay cool now need to make some changes

I need to do some paint work

I need to grade some of these things a little better

I just had a grade note in straight away

okay I need to tweak a little bit more

okay first of all I need to

what I need to do

what I need to do

I got some big holes

okay if I look at this and I look at this

you can see the

you can see the sky going through the floor okay

so what I'm gonna wanna do is paint over this part here

so I'm gonna go to this image here

which is just the background

and I go to the clone step