Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
Refined (part 2)
A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer
About the video: Refined (part 2)
Overview
“In this lesson, I will review what we have, and I will do a general technical check to refine the final result.”
In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: Refined (part 2), which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production. Learn fundamentals and basic techniques to create a VFX shot with Nuke.
Partial transcription of the video
“Another thing I want to do is modify the mask. Maybe enlarge it a little more to cover more. I also want to modify the volumetric light a bit. What I am doing here is trying to replicate this smoke effect, but without using a smoke precisely. The smoke absorbs enough light, so first I am using as a mask, what you see here. That. The mask, but this other mask ... I'm removing a piece of a to give this feeling that we have a shadow. I'm putting a Tracker for this to move Just to my Plate. And on the other hand, what I did is have a luminance mask in which I am removing certain parts of the im...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
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Adobe After Effects, Nuke -
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3D, Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX

Juan Olivares
A course by Juan Olivares
Juan Olivares is a specialist in digital composition and visual effects. His beginnings in the audiovisual world were in Buenos Aires (Argentina) working for television commercials, where he later made his big leap into the world of visual effects with the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes.
He worked on innumerable Argentine productions before moving to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked in houses specializing in visual effects such as The Embassy, Zoic, and Digital Domain, with which he was able to participate in Hollywood productions such as Deadpool, Arrow, and Furious 7. Then, he crossed the ocean, this time to London, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Framestore house for the film Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is currently in Chile, his native country, where he founded a visual-effects boutique specializing in characters and creatures, called Grumpy VFX, where he is a composer and visual-effects supervisor.
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