Artificial intelligence is opening up new creative possibilities inside compositing workflows, but integrating AI-generated results into high-end VFX pipelines still depends on precision, control, and finishing techniques.
In this tutorial from Foundry and Beeble, we walk through a complete workflow for relighting footage in Nuke using Beeble's AI-powered relighting tools, while maintaining the fidelity and flexibility professional compositors expect.
Learn how AI lighting can become part of a practical compositing workflow, from matching renders back into the original plate to restoring texture, fixing artifacts, and blending the final result seamlessly into a production-ready shot.
What the tutorial covers
This walkthrough includes:
- Setting up a color-managed Nuke project for relighting work.
- Denoising source footage before AI processing.
- Using Beeble SwitchX for AI-generated relighting.
- Creating reference lighting using prompts.
- Importing relit renders with the Beeble Nuke plugin.
- Matching resolution and cleaning up artifacts.
- Using frequency separation to recover texture and sharpness.
- Refining the result with roto and color corrections.
- Repairing details with RotoPaint.
- Regraining the final composite for seamless integration.
Bridging AI and traditional compositing
What makes this workflow compelling is not just the AI relighting itself, but how naturally it fits within established compositing practice. It combines the speed and creative flexibility of AI-generated lighting with the precision tools compositors already trust inside Nuke.
Explore our Nuke plugin documentation for setup and configuration details.
Whether you're refining VFX shots, experimenting with AI-driven relighting, or looking for ways to integrate machine learning into a production pipeline, this tutorial shows how the two worlds can work together.