COMPOSITING WITH NUKE

Come join us for three exciting days of Nuke training by master trainer Steve Wright. This unique Friday, Saturday and Sunday workshop will explore and demonstrate the key features of Nuke and equip attending artists with a basic understanding of Nuke’s powerful workflow. Prerequisites for the class are a solid background in compositing visual effects using programs such as Shake, Combustion, Digital Fusion, Motion, Flame or After Effects.

Day One:
A rousing demonstration of Nuke’s unique features that make it the compositing program of choice for modern CGI compositing pipelines. The remainder of the day will be cover how to navigate Nukes spiffy new interface - image viewer, node graph, property panels, and curve editor.

Day Two:
The theme of the day is bluescreen and greenscreen compositing. We will cover keying with Primatte and Nuke’s novel IBK keyer, spill suppression, drawing shapes, masking operations. Image reformatting, bounding box control, and transformations.

Day Three:
The theme of the day is compositing CGI. We will cover multi-pass CGI compositing, channel management, motion tracking, time controls, color correcting, and Nukes amazing 3D compositing capabilities.

Nuke runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms. Student’s can take advantage of Nuke’s FREE Personal Learning Edition that can be downloaded and used before, during and after the class. Click here to go to the Nuke page on The Foundry’s website and download the free Personal Learning Edition.

Also our special discount - bring your own laptop computer with Nuke pre-installed for a special discount.