For my final assignment in my Texturing 2 class at the Digital Animation Center, we were given a dropship model with some rough UVs and a platform model, and guided through the process of setting up AOVs in Arnold and then using those passes to create a composited shot in Nuke. We were given a stock landing animation, but I modified the rig and re-animated the landing for more realism in its movement. A large part of the assignment was making the aesthetic elements in Nuke and not Arnold, so raw rendered lights were over-exposed and not color optimized for our final setting. Below is a comparison between the un-processed and the final render. As my first foray into Nuke and compositing, this project enabled my future success on my jungle landscape project and thesis film.