Udemy - Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing: The Essentials

Udemy - Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing: The Essentials - NK101

A full Nuke visual effects training course for VFX Compositing in Nuke. Final project of a Junior Compositor shot!

Description

Introducing the class and main concepts
- Introducing the class and main concepts
- Downloading Nuke
- Concept of Nodes VS Layers
- Reiterating nodes and compositing structures
Setting up, and software basics
- Basics of the Nuke Interface
- Setting up the project file
- Additive Color Model (Part 1)
- FEB 2020 UPDATE... NEW SHUFFLE NODE
- Additive Color Model (Part 2)
- Formats and Images
- Quick Quiz
Learning your first nodes
- Basic nodes
- Transforms, reformats, crops
- Blurring
- Creative nodes overview
- Color Correction (Part 1)
- Some other color nodes (Part 2)
- Splitting Colors
- Quiz on Nodes
Roto & Rotopaint
- Rotopaint and Rotoscoping (Part 1)
- Rotoscoping Moving Objects (Part 2)
- Rotoscope Quiz
Compositing Fundamental Concepts
- Premultiplication (Part 1)
- Premultiplication and Mini project(Part 2)
- Animation
- Animation Extra Concepts
- Lens Distortion
- Grain and Sensor Noise
- Compositing Concepts Quiz
Second Project: 2d Motion Tracking a scene and Cleanplating
- 2d Motion Tracking
- Cleanplating a moving scene
- Tracking / Cleanplate quiz
Keying and Chroma Keying Greensreens
- Keying (Part 1)
- (OPTIONAL*) Intermediate Keying
- Keying quiz
Final Project
- How to complete the shot (Directions)
- Rendering the shot
- Script organization, cleanup, "Precomping", and good habits.
*BONUS*
- Next steps.