First VFX Blog Post: Rotoing Rorschach

This is the first blog post of this new VFX blog. A good way to begin when starting with software like Nuke, is to randomly pick an image, and just start messing around with the tools. In this post, it shows practice with the roto node.

Here's the picture:

The picture was uploaded into Nuke and a roto node was read in:

Then Rorschach himself is roto'd:

Now Rorschach has been successfully removed from the picture, from this point Rorschach could moved to a new image, or something else can be put in his place. Nuke provides all sorts of options.

Sadly, at this point Nuke crashed and the file was corrupted, there is a chance that Nuke hasn't been properly installed, so the next step is uninstall Nuke, reinstall it, and start again.

It is easy to see that the rotoing in this picture isn't fantastic, so when the problems with Nuke have been fixed and the project started again, the new roto of Rorschach will be much smoother, using less roto points.
References:
-Splash Page Art, (n.d.). Splash Page Comic Art Announces A Blind Auction For Lee Bermejo's Before Watchmen Rorschach Cover Art! Retrieved 4th October 2012, from http://splashpageart.com/bermejororschachauction.asp