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    Nuke VFX Compositing Course With Steve Wright

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    The 12 week course provides video tutorials, weekly assignments, and reading assignments to teach students Nuke compositing. It is self-paced but includes a weekly 30 minute Skype meeting for assignment review and questions. The first 6 weeks cover 2D compositing techniques. The second 6 weeks cover 3D compositing, including camera projection, tracking, and set extension. Students spend about 10 hours per week on learning activities to complete the mentored program.

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    Nuke VFX Compositing Course With Steve Wright

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    The 12 week course provides video tutorials, weekly assignments, and reading assignments to teach students Nuke compositing. It is self-paced but includes a weekly 30 minute Skype meeting for assignment review and questions. The first 6 weeks cover 2D compositing techniques. The second 6 weeks cover 3D compositing, including camera projection, tracking, and set extension. Students spend about 10 hours per week on learning activities to complete the mentored program.

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    The 12 week course provides video tutorials, weekly assignments, and reading assignments to teach students Nuke compositing. It is self-paced but includes a weekly 30 minute Skype meeting for assignment review and questions. The first 6 weeks cover 2D compositing techniques. The second 6 weeks cover 3D compositing, including camera projection, tracking, and set extension. Students spend about 10 hours per week on learning activities to complete the mentored program.

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    Nuke VFX Compositing Course With Steve Wright

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    The 12 week course provides video tutorials, weekly assignments, and reading assignments to teach students Nuke compositing. It is self-paced but includes a weekly 30 minute Skype meeting for assignment review and questions. The first 6 weeks cover 2D compositing techniques. The second 6 weeks cover 3D compositing, including camera projection, tracking, and set extension. Students spend about 10 hours per week on learning activities to complete the mentored program.

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    Nuke VFX Compositing Course with Steve Wright

    A 12 week mentored program

    My 12 week VFX Compositing course is a fully mentored program combining


    video tutorials, weekly assignments, and book readings. We meet once a week
    with Skype for about half an hour to go over your assignment, answer any
    questions, and give you production tips. You will need about 10 hours a week to
    complete all the learning activities. Because this course is completely self-paced
    if you need time off for work or family that is never a problem.

    Video Tutorials

    Each week averages over 2 hours of video tutorials, the bulk of which are my
    own Telly award-winning videos. I have also tapped some of the tutorials on the
    Foundry’s website for you to watch, many of which were actually made by me for
    the Foundry. This tutorials are hosted on Vimeo as streaming video which are
    accessed with a password.

    Reading Assignments

    The reading assignments come from two sources - my advanced book on


    compositing and the Nuke manuals. Each week a chapter from my book is
    selected that pertains to that week’s learning points plus there are selections
    from the Nuke manuals that provide more information on the week’s topics. You
    can purchase my book on Amazon.com using this link:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/024081309X/wwwswdfxcom-20

    Weekly Assignments

    Each week there is a prepared Nuke script with multiple challenges for you to
    complete and turn in. You get all project media which averages about 200MB of
    images per week. We get together online and I put your assignment up on my
    workstation and we go through it together using desktop sharing so you can see
    and hear everything I do. If you made a mistake I will show you the correct
    approach and if you have any questions we answer them right there.

    Your Instructor

    I have over 20 years of production experience working on over 70 feature films in


    Hollywood. Since 2005 I have been a full-time teacher/trainer and have been
    recognized as the world’s leading Nuke instructor. I have produced hundreds of
    tutorials (winning 2 Telly awards), published two popular books on compositing,
    and have taught Nuke compositing to the staffs of over 25 VFX studios including
    Pixar and Disney. I also recently won the SMPTE Kodak Educational Award for
    outstanding VFX training.
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    Weekly Course Summary

    The first six weeks are an in-depth study of all aspects of 2D compositing with
    Nuke including keying, tracking, compositing CG lighting passes, color correcting
    and much more.

    Week 1 – The Nuke Interface


    • Navigating the interface
    • Building Node Graphs
    • Creating key frames
    • The Curve Editor

    Week 2 – Transformations and Animation


    • Keyframe animation
    • Math expressions and linking
    • Creating animated elements
    • Correcting for lens distortion

    Week 3 – Color and Rotoscoping


    • Nuke’s color management
    • Color correcting composites
    • Rotoscoping
    • Masking operations

    Week 4 – Compositing CGI and Channels


    • Mastering Nuke’s channels system
    • Multi-pass CG compositing
    • Adding motion blur
    • Adding depth of field

    Week 5 – Keying
    • Lumakeys
    • All four of Nuke’s chromakeyers
    • Proper use of Addmix and Keymix nodes
    • How to merge multiple keys

    Week 6 – Tracking, Warping and Retiming


    • The Tracker node
    • How to do a match move
    • Spline warp and Grid warp
    • Retiming clips with optical flow

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    The second 6 weeks is an in-depth study of Nuke’s awesome 3D compositing
    environment featuring key tasks such as camera projection, camera tracking, set
    extension, and more.

    Week 7 – 3D Basics
    • Navigating Nuke’s 3D workspace
    • Working with geometric primitives
    • Projecting texture maps
    • Rendering 3D scenes

    Week 8 – 3D Animation and Shaders


    • Animating 3D geometry
    • Deforming 3D geometry
    • Adding lights, shaders and materials to geometry
    • Normals relighting

    Week 9 – Production Workflows


    • Adding a 3D background to a CG render
    • Camera projection
    • Rig removal
    • Set extension

    Week 10 – Camera Tracking


    • How to do camera tracking
    • Converting point clouds to meshes
    • Compensating for lens distortion
    • Getting 3D information to the 2D composite

    Week 11 – Planar Tracker and Particles


    • How to do planar tracking
    • How to use planar tracking results
    • Using Nuke’s 3D particle system
    • Creating your own particles

    Week 12 – Advanced 3D Nodes


    • Deep compositing
    • Alembic geometry
    • Modeling 3D geometry from a 2D scene
    • Creating point clouds from CG renders

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