Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing- The Essentials NK101

Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing: The Essentials – NK101, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 47 lectures, 6 quizzes, based on 1444 reviews, and has 5285 subscribers.

You will learn about Nuke's User Interface Concepts and techniques for digital compositing Additive color theory Image formats / resolutions / colors 2d Tracking Rotopaint and Rotoscoping Keyframe animation Color correction / color grading techniques Introduction to Chroma Keying / Greenscreen removal Camera traits (Lens distortion, grain, sensor noise) Cleanplating and removing objects from a scene Rendering Good compositing habits, compositing workflow and hierarchy, script organization This course is ideal for individuals who are People who have no experience with digital compositing and are curious to learn or Beginners with experience in another image software (I.E Photoshop or After Effects) and want to transition into Nuke It is particularly useful for People who have no experience with digital compositing and are curious to learn or Beginners with experience in another image software (I.E Photoshop or After Effects) and want to transition into Nuke.

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Summary

Title: Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing: The Essentials – NK101

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 47

Number of Quizzes: 6

Number of Published Lectures: 44

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 53

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50

Original Price: $99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Nuke's User Interface

Concepts and techniques for digital compositing

Additive color theory

Image formats / resolutions / colors

2d Tracking

Rotopaint and Rotoscoping

Keyframe animation

Color correction / color grading techniques

Introduction to Chroma Keying / Greenscreen removal

Camera traits (Lens distortion, grain, sensor noise)

Cleanplating and removing objects from a scene

Rendering

Good compositing habits, compositing workflow and hierarchy, script organization

Who Should Attend

People who have no experience with digital compositing and are curious to learn

Beginners with experience in another image software (I.E Photoshop or After Effects) and want to transition into Nuke

Target Audiences

People who have no experience with digital compositing and are curious to learn

Beginners with experience in another image software (I.E Photoshop or After Effects) and want to transition into Nuke

*New updates added in 2024!*

NK101 is the first course out of 6 in an A-Z series by Compositing Academy, designed to help you become a professional compositor.

This Nuke visual effects training course will take you through the fundamental concepts of VFX Compositing in Nuke, and how to learn the user interface.  By the end of the course, you will successfully be able to composite what would be considered a “Junior Digital Compositing” shot.  

The final project includes all of the techniques you learn along the way.  The class is focused primarily on the 2D aspects of compositing to get you started.  It involves replacing a background, color correcting and blending the foreground and background, motion tracking the background to the foreground, and seamlessly bringing it all together.  As a bonus, you learn how to create an animated hologram effect from scratch appearing in front of the character!

There will be a lot of theory you need to learn first before you can successfully composite a shot, and with anything worth learning there is a learning curve.  But if you persist through you will have a great payoff and skillset at the end, and a great shot to show off that you created!

A thank you to the BLENDER FOUNDATION and Xiph for providing the free footage of the green screen!

Note:  You will be required to sign up and download the project files if you want to follow along with this class

2024 Updates:
-Screen Inserts and Tracking Techniques

-Offset Tracking Techniques

-After Effects to Nuke 1 Hour Mini Course

-NUKE E-Book Shortcut Keys (FREE DOWNLOAD)

-Audio Improvements on Various Lectures

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introducing the class and main concepts

Lecture 1: (New 2023) Free After Effects to Nuke Course, 1 Hour Practice

Lecture 2: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 3: What is compositing?

Lecture 4: Downloading Nuke

Lecture 5: Concept of Nodes VS Layers

Lecture 6: Reiterating nodes and Compositing Structures

Chapter 2: Setting up, and software basics

Lecture 1: FREE PDF DOWNLOAD (Shortcut Keys)

Lecture 2: Nuke Interface Basics

Lecture 3: Downloading the Project File

Lecture 4: Setting up the project file

Lecture 5: Nuke Interface 2: Frameranges And Overlay

Lecture 6: Additive Color Model (Part 1) Updated

Lecture 7: FEB 2020 UPDATE. NEW SHUFFLE NODE

Lecture 8: Additive Color Model (Part 2) Updated

Lecture 9: Formats and Images (Updated)

Chapter 3: Learning your first nodes

Lecture 1: Basic nodes

Lecture 2: Transforms, reformats, crops

Lecture 3: Blurring

Lecture 4: Creative nodes overview

Lecture 5: Color Correction (Part 1) Updated

Lecture 6: Color Correction | Some other color nodes (Part 2) Updated

Lecture 7: Color Correction Wheel (Splitting Colors)

Chapter 4: Roto & Rotopaint

Lecture 1: Rotopaint and Rotoscoping (Part 1)

Lecture 2: Rotoscoping Moving Objects (Part 2)

Lecture 3: Extra Roto Lessons

Chapter 5: Compositing Fundamental Concepts

Lecture 1: Premultiplication (Part 1)

Lecture 2: Premultiplication and Mini project(Part 2)

Lecture 3: Animation

Lecture 4: Animation Extra Concepts

Lecture 5: Lens Distortion

Lecture 6: Grain and Sensor Noise

Chapter 6: Second Project: 2d Motion Tracking a scene and Cleanplating

Lecture 1: 2d Motion Tracking

Lecture 2: Cleanplating a moving scene

Chapter 7: Third Project, Screen Replacement (2024 UPDATE)

Lecture 1: Explanation

Lecture 2: Screen Replacement Walkthrough from scratch

Lecture 3: Bonus Lesson: Offset Tracking

Chapter 8: Keying and Chroma Keying Greensreens

Lecture 1: Keying (Part 1)

Lecture 2: (OPTIONAL*) Intermediate Keying

Chapter 9: Final Project

Lecture 1: Next Lessons Preview

Lecture 2: How to complete the shot (Shorter Version Directions)

Lecture 3: How to complete the shot (From Scratch Walkthrough)

Lecture 4: Rendering the shot

Lecture 5: Script organization, cleanup, "Precomping", and good habits.

Chapter 10: *BONUS*

Lecture 1: Next Learning Steps

Instructors

Alexander Hanneman
Senior Digital Compositor

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1 stars: 12 votes

2 stars: 20 votes

3 stars: 131 votes

4 stars: 403 votes

5 stars: 878 votes

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