Simple Fire Stereo Conversion in Nuke

In this tutorial, Visual Effects and Stereoscopic Supervisor, Tom Williamson (Alice in Wonderland, Pans Labyrinth, The Mist, The Final Destination 3D and many more) talks us through a clever use of Nuke to convert some fire footage from 2D to 3D.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• dimentionalisation
• dimentionalization
• 2D
• to
• 3D
• conversion
• stereoscopic
• compositing
• nuke
• shake
• fusion
• vfx

[roguefx1]

@fierzfx Thanks :-)

[roguefx1]

@Jurand80 That can be used to a certain degree but just because something is bright doesn't necessarily mean it's closer. With explosions mixing in just a bit of the luminance of the element with the noise can make it more 'billowy'.

[roguefx1]

@thim0 I'm not a huge fan of conversion either. This tutorial is more for taking advantage of existing element libraries. This technique has been used successfully many times because it's only converting a single element, not the whole shot.

[roguefx1]

@FluentFilm The conform eye can be either one, it's up to production to set which eye will be the 'hero'

[thim0]

And this is exactly why 3D converted movies gives everyone headaches! Because it's "roughly right", and the brain can only deal with "right". 3D conversions really have to Stop.

[FluentFilm]

Isn't the left eye usually used as the hero eye? If so, I'm thinking one would want to apply the distortions the the right eye...

[MayecRancel]

@Jurand80

Good that you tried it then, thanks Jurand80. One more trick in the hat. And one more example of something that in theory shouldn't work, but after trying, it does work in practice (the eye is probably fooled by complexity). That, or my theory and my guess are completely wrong.

[Jurand80]

@MayecRancel

It worked just fine with fireballs I did.

[Lukasilvabr]

pena que não é em portugues

[fierzfx]

Nice Tom