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Kew Gardens

Compositing 101...

The goal is to learn basic compositing technique in Nuke!
I decided to create an ad for Ahmad Tea, celebrating their tea collaboration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, location in London, UK.

Softwares
Nuke, After Effects, Procreate

I was able to spent the last bit of 2024 in London and visited the Kew Gardens with my family for their Christmas light show! We ended up purchasing some tea products from the garden and they are SO GOOD. (I love tea)
So... I decided to make a little ad to celebrate this amazing tea blend!

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The light show we watched🤟

Process

Inspiration...So pretty!

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It was very fun to illustrate the garden on Procreate. After creating the assets, I imported everything into After Effects for color correction, animation and create a cel animation effect.

Footage

Shooting my own footage! I had a lot of fun to set up the scene:D

Nuke

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Learning Nuke was a rollercoaster, but it turned out super fun! I learned how to build a (working) Nuke tree, tracking, rotoscoping. Painting all the shadows and highlights are tedious but therapeutic for some reason...?

Break down

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© 2025 Kiki Leung

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