Studying some methods for creating lens flares in NUKE, Joe Raasch takes a look at NUKE’s Flare Tool detailing the individual controls as well as looking at various NUKE Gizmos that are available for creating lens flares in NUKE.

This tutorial examines lens flares in Nuke, we’ll construct a lens flare from scratch, only using standard nodes found in the default installation of Nuke

There are many alternatives for creating an using Lens Flares in NUKE, and plenty work great.

However there is no real better way to truly understand something as by doing it for yourself, and here Joe also shows how to create a custom lens flare from scratch right in NUKE using standard nodes that are in the default installation of NUKE. Check out the tutorial for Creating and using Lens Flares in NUKE here.