From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
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Importing layers into Nuke
From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film
Importing layers into Nuke
- [Instructor] Okay so we're ready to do the compositing part of this tutorial. In this case, let's open up Nuke and go to the exercise files folder, chapter eight and open the psd there. Okay so this is our mount painting if you will. And we are going to take this and break it out into the layers. Give yourself enough space, zoom out, click and press Breakout Layers here. Now we've popped and left click, you can move around. And you can see that we've broken up all of our layers into corresponding groups, backdrop nodes I should say. And it's given them the names corresponding. This is one of the many reasons why it's important to rename everything because I don't know what Layer 21 is. It would be very important to actually have named that in Photoshop. Working with many, many nodes will just compound the problem If we click on the crop and press 1, the first crop there then you can see that this is our sky layer. So if I double click on the backdrop node, I can rename that to the…
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