With my previous experience of using Aftereffect, it needs time for me to adjust while using Nuke, even sharing the same concepts within both softwares , or even among all other compositing software, the keywords and terms in Nuke are seems to be strangers to me.
The things to remind myself:
- Gain and multiply – highlight control
- Gamma – midtone control
- Lift – shadow control
- Toe – black control
- BlacksMatch – a gizmos for black control
Another obstacle is my aesthetic skill on coloring. While I need to eyeball the color of background and the object to finetune and match them. All I can say is that, somethings are not right yet, the airplane is still a “fake” one, it didn’t merge with the environment, but I don’t know which buttons to adjust my discomfort for the color.
And when I first input the cloud png into the script, the edge of the cloud was so rough that I misunderstood Nuke cannot recognise the alpha pass. But then I discovered that what I need is just a premult node, as we don’t need this step in aftereffect, I definitely need to solid my knowledge with the concept for premultiplication.
Result
That is the best result I can gather, but I am still not satisfied with the color match. Somethings are still not right by my eye judgement.