(Alex) Compositing Academy

Wip. Directing a full sequence for this. VFX are going to be insane

Wow

Hey Brian, Check this one out: youtube.com/watch?v=pyiyfa… Usually the beginner stuff starts more software and compositing concept focused, but as you progress through the levels into intemediate projects, it becomes about how to apply those base concepts into different creative scenarios.

@CompAcademyVFX I’m a complete noob to this space but o enjoy ur content. I’m still considering picking up ur intro courses. Is there one of ur YouTube vids that is most similar to what a course lecture/session looks like tho? Thx!

A.I Generating some background rock assets with Comfy. Left is default, right is after a quick re-paint / texture in Substance to help it blend into my lava photogrammetry environment scans. Mainly painting it up with photography I took of the real volcano, and some other techniques. Messy topology quality doesn't matter much because it's DMP or proxy mesh workflows, but it does save some time for quick silhouttes and shapes.

@BlenderDev definitely needed!

In Blender 5.2 LTS, rendering scenes with many image textures is much more memory efficient thanks to Cycles Texture Cache. code.blender.org/2026/05/cycles… #b3d #Cycles

More R&D for the current project. The Hue Fizzler takes a rainbow ID pass and slices it into discrete color bands using hue quantization - pick how many segments you want, and you've got that many independent ranges to target in your ID pass. Noise runs through each segment, and segments can be killed off independently, which lets the mask break apart in a flickery manner instead of fading uniformly. In other words, it makes your mask fizzle out in interesting ways. Useful for sparks, plasma explosions, etc etc.

Full video & Free Download: youtu.be/fNxqXKuAr4A?si…

I made a Davinci Resolve inspired Color Qualifier for Nuke!

@KIRI_Engine_App cool tool!

Mesh wrapping two photoscans together to create a more interesting lava terrain / matte painting base, in Blender.

48 Hours Left - perfect for beginners or more advanced users looking to level up their Compositing game.

@ZooL_Smith ha, smart

There's this really nice "motion blur" trick in Halo 2: When the warthog goes fast, the wheels change their texture to that nice blurred version to simulate fast motion.

The Big Project is Coming

Full making-of: youtu.be/TUPGJj4TjMk

What is Greenscreen Virtual Production?

I think Nuke remains king for the best VFX Software name

All NUKE VFX Courses are 20% OFF for our Spring Sale

@VFXCentral it goes well with a NAS storage for the hard drives, then everything pulls from the same place. The main thing after that is setting up a pipeline just so you don't have to search for files and stuff and you can just drag stuff in instantly

@CompAcademyVFX That’s awesome! I gotta set one up

Finally I have a render farm, now we're in the game