Since you've used both flame and nuke, if someone wants to transition out of after effects, which would you recommend? And why?
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Since you've used both flame and nuke, if someone wants to transition out of after effects, which would you recommend? And why?
Nuke has kind of become the vfx darling, or 'flavor of the week' over the past few years. Both nuke and flame are very capable, very powerful products though.
Incidentally, since we're talking autodesk, I am partially responsible for their newly launched knowledge base site: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/
My primary (visible) contribution was building the custom faceted search that kind of drives the whole site.
Incidentally, since we're talking autodesk, I am partially responsible for their newly launched knowledge base site: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/
My primary (visible) contribution was building the custom faceted search that kind of drives the whole site.
Nuke has kind of become the vfx darling, or 'flavor of the week' over the past few years. Both nuke and flame are very capable, very powerful products though.
Incidentally, since we're talking autodesk, I am partially responsible for their newly launched knowledge base site: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/
Nice one. Thats no small feat
Nuke has kind of become the vfx darling, or 'flavor of the week' over the past few years. Both nuke and flame are very capable, very powerful products though.
Incidentally, since we're talking autodesk, I am partially responsible for their newly launched knowledge base site: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/
Yeah. very nice. If I had your skills, I'd be trying to create whatsapp
Wow, awesome, the website looks great Will. Do you do much Flame compositing?
In response to your question trueindie- I don't know. I started in Nuke 5 years ago and only got into Flame later. I have continued to use both depending if I was at home or not. Now with Smoke on Mac, I am definitely using Nuke less. However, I will say, Nuke runs light, and I can get away with 5K comps in Nuke that I cant on Smac.
That said, I can do a far higher volume of work in smac or flame then I could ever hope to achieve in Nuke.
Quite simply, to call one a darling is a bit of a backhanded compliment, they are very different tools. A single artist trained in autodesk software will get way more done than a single Nuke artist.
Ultimately, whatever you are comfortable with, the node based workflow would be the biggest adjustment. Regardless of hype and tech speak, you are best served using compositing software to solve problems on your projects.
In response to your question trueindie- I don't know. I started in Nuke 5 years ago and only got into Flame later. I have continued to use both depending if I was at home or not. Now with Smoke on Mac, I am definitely using Nuke less. However, I will say, Nuke runs light, and I can get away with 5K comps in Nuke that I cant on Smac.
That said, I can do a far higher volume of work in smac or flame then I could ever hope to achieve in Nuke.
Quite simply, to call one a darling is a bit of a backhanded compliment, they are very different tools. A single artist trained in autodesk software will get way more done than a single Nuke artist.
Ultimately, whatever you are comfortable with, the node based workflow would be the biggest adjustment. Regardless of hype and tech speak, you are best served using compositing software to solve problems on your projects.
I've never used flame. Toyed around a very small amount with an old version of combustion long long ago, which eventually grew into flame.
Really, Flame was developed independently and eventually acquired by autodesk. Combustion was a much lower end product (and software only). But I get your point.
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