10 Tips and Tricks for Compositing 3D Renders in Maya and NUKE

This series of tutorials will teach you ten techniques and tips that can be applied to any Maya/NUKE compositing project. They will help you speed up your workflow and produce a better-quality composite. There are many topics we will be discussing, including how to break Maya scenes into layers and get the most information from Maya to create high-dynamic-range composites. We also discuss how to process EXRs to make NUKE interact with Maya faster. We'll then look at some layer and render pass workflows that can eliminate errors and allow us to use NUKE with greater flexibility. We'll then jump into NUKE and look at CG render compositing techniques, before finally figuring out the correct premultiply workflow. Software required: Maya 2012, NUKE 6.3v1.