Nuke Plane Flight
This is a small project that served as an introduction to the Nuke VFX software. It consisted of getting an image of a plane to move across the screen. I found this task quite easy, but it was a good introduction to the interface and gave me an idea of how Nuke worked.
The bottom screen is the node graph. This is where you place and connect all of your footage and images, using different nodes to do things like transform them and put them on screen. In this project we used the merge node (m) that allows you to display both a background and an image, as well as the transform node that allows you to move and scale images and create animation.
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I placed the image of the planes and the sky into the node graph, then connected them to a merge node to display them both on screen. I then added transform nodes to each plane and used keyframes in the transform node settings to drag them across the scene to make it look as if they are flying.
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Notes:
press s on node graph (bottom screen) for project settings
save new versions file > save new version
m creates a merge node that allows you to put an image and a background in the viewer​
h fits image to entire screen
f puts items back to center of screen
bind middle mouse to wacom pen button
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