Created with Python for Nuke
 

This project was inspired by a different personal project I was working on at the same time: Fa Dai.

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I have always admired the unique look of film photography and found myself constantly compositing and color grading my final images to look have filmic qualities. I always ended up stringing the same set of nodes and adjusting them in a fairly similar way and thought it would really speed up my workflow to have just one node that has easy sliders to do all of that in one place.

Usage:

• Ability to apply presets to your image or sequence in nuke with customization knobs based on the look of popular film brands (Fuji, Kodak etc.)

  • A more user friendly, intuitive and familiar UI to color grade vs. nuke’s more overwhelming settings

• Basically the 'VSCO' editing app but in nuke

Components:

• 3-5 different film presets

• Contrast + Brightness

• Exposure

• Black point 

• HSL Adjustments (master, highlights, shadows) - color slider like lightroom

• Temperature (split tone)

• Halation (img>adjustments>threshold) - exponential Glow (downloaded)

• Grain (downloaded from actual film as overlays + option to upload custom grain)

• Vignette (downloaded or make myself)

• Additional - Blurs/bokeh

• Additional - Lens flare

• Additional - Text for date/time

(Potential) Nuke nodes to utilize:

• Filter nodes

  • Soften

  • Sharpen

  • Erode (blur)

  • Sharpen

  • Exponential glow

  • Vignette

  • Grain

• Color nodes

  • Grade

  • Color correct

  • Add

  • ColorLookup (LUTs)

  • GenerateLUT

  • HueCorrect

  • Histogram

  • HSV Tool

  • Saturation

  • SoftClip (compresses HDR -> 0-1 range)

  • Toe (lifts black level without affecting whites)

  • ColorTransfer (takes colors from one image and directly applies it)

• Draw nodes

  • scannedGrain

  • Radial, Ramp (for bokeh blurs)

  • Flare (for lens flares)

  • Dither (adds random noise to image)