I had the pleasure to be invited to give a masters class on Nuke for Industry Giants in 2014. I used this opportunity to expound on a couple of topics that weren’t so sexy, but so important to compositing on a day-to-day basis, merging and masking. Most artists have never used most of the features on either toolset, and in this demo I go over some best practices as well as dispelling alternative methods I’ve seen in the wild.