Can we create visual effects
with After Effects or NUKE is better for it? –
This is a good question! First, you need to decide which field do you want to gain
expertise. Motion Design or VFX movies? If
your answer is motion design, I will recommend After Effects. If you answer is
movies and visual effects, my answer will be Nuke! Let’s get into more details.
After Effects is the perfect program. With this program, you can create motion design
videos, 2D animation, movie effects and photograph-video editing. Of course,
you will need Photoshop to edit photographs and Adobe Premiere to edit video.
After Effects is an ideal program for motion design. Because there are no other
programs to replace it in this field. But it is not fair to compare it with
Nuke. Nuke is a very professional movie VFX software. The most important
property of this program is the operation with Node system. After Effects still
operates with layer system. Currently, most of the programs have transited to
the Node system. I wonder why After Effects still uses the layer system. This
might be the indispensable property of Adobe. Nevertheless, let’s go back to
our topic. Nuke made various global movies. One of the examples can be given as
the Avatar movie. But After Effects cannot do this much movie effects and we
will get exhausted in the process. Isn’t it possible? Well, it is possible but
it is like editing the videos with After Effects while you have Premier.
