During one of our sessions doing greenscreen, we went and filmed on our green screen studio a set of two videos and then were taught how to green screen these out by using the keyer nodes and creating a garbage matte. We also learned about then using these to build out a 3D Scene and creating enviro nodes based off of videos. I originally wanted to do a different area to greenscreen in, but had some issues regarding the environment nodes and getting it into a 3D space, so i chose to go about coming back to that task later with advice from my professor.
This shot had already been keyed and had a lightwrap applied, so i went for the motion graphic of adding something to the screen when our filmed student would point. I went about building out a small board using constant nodes and ramps as well as transform nodes, and using a switch between both using constant and linear keyframing in the dope sheet.
A lot of the keyframing of this came down to going between copying the keyframes and using a constant 2 frame animation style, unfortunately this isn’t done through simple ctrl copy and paste but after a lot of headaches and google searching i found ways to do both this and opacity keyframing.
I used some opacity keyframing on both the underlinings and text on the small weatherboard
I then set keyframes on the actual merge using the mix option as an opacity.
Personally i really do not like using Nuke for almost anything motion graphics related. While i did like doing motion graphics again, doing things in Nuke takes an absurdly long amount of time to do the simplest tasks even if you know exactly what you’re doing compared to something like after effects. This coupled with the fact that after effects still has illustrator compatibility between creative cloud leads to this having more control but at the cost of time. Doing something this simple motion graphics style ended up having me looking up a lot of different ways in nuke to essentially get around simple things like using an opacity gizmo or not being able to copy keyframes as easily that bog down this process overall. While Nuke could be used for motion graphics i would most likely end up using something like after effects overall.
Below is the animation, though the animation has been converted to web res at 1280×720 and the bitrate has been dropped due to converting this in media encoder for web.