From the course: Learning Motion Graphics
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Tools, techniques, and next steps
From the course: Learning Motion Graphics
Tools, techniques, and next steps
- If the job of a VFX artist is to make the impossible seem real, how do they do it? The answer is lots of hard, painstaking work and powerful software. Artists have a choice between two primary tools as the basis for their workflow, Adobe After Effects and Nuke from the Foundry. Each of these packages can handle many parts of the VFX process, but they use very different interfaces to get things done. After Effects uses a layered approach that will be familiar to anyone who's used Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Nuke uses a node-based workflow that has become the standard tool at many of the top VFX houses around the world. Every shot an artist works on is different, and regardless of which tool you choose to work with, there are some common tasks that are a part of the overall VFX process. For many shots, the very first step is tracking, where you use the movement of objects in a scene to create a virtual camera that lines up perfectly with where the original real camera was when the…
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