Nuke Essential Training

Course details

Visual effects (VFX) dominate at the box office, and Nuke is the compositing software that is used to create mind-blowing effects at the highest end studios. For a career in VFX, Nuke is essential. This course is an introduction that covers the entire program in just five hours. Upon completion, you should be able to perform basic 2D and 3D visual effects compositing with Nuke, and be prepared to tackle more advanced coursework and projects. VFX compositor and Nuke master trainer Steve Wright covers the user interface, including the Viewer, Timeline, Dope Sheet, and Curve Editor. In this section, you can learn about Nuke channels, node trees, and keyframe animation and get an overview of the compositing workflow. Chapter two introduces 2D compositing: image transformations, color correction, rotoscoping, keying, timing adjustments, and tracking. In chapter three, you can expand your skills into 3D: working with lights and cameras, transforming and deforming 3D geometry, applying materials and textures, and rendering. Each video comes with its own Nuke scripts and media, so you can easily follow along on your own machine.

Learning objectives
Building node trees
Animating keyframes
Transforming and reformatting images
Rotoscoping
Changing clip timing
Merging images and layers
Keying with ChromaKeyer
Tracking
3D compositing
Lights and cameras
Rendering 3D scenes

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get started with Nuke

1. The Nuke Interface

02 - Tour of the interface
03 - Use the Viewer - Part 1
04 - Use the Viewer - Part 2
05 - The Viewer playback controls
06 - The Timeline
07 - Project settings
08 - Build node trees
09 - Work with Properties panels
10 - Adjust node parameters
11 - Keyframe animation
12 - The Dope Sheet
13 - The Curve Editor
14 - A workflow demonstration - Part 1
15 - A workflow demonstration - Part 2

2. 2D Compositing

16 - An introduction to channels
17 - 2D Viewer wipe controls
18 - Transform images
19 - Corner pinning
20 - Reformat images
21 - Color correcting
22 - The Roto node - Part 1
23 - The Roto node - Part 2
24 - Rotoscoping
25 - Rotoscoping - Part 2
26 - Rotoscoping - Part 3
27 - Mask operations
28 - Change clip timing
29 - Merge images
30 - Composite multipass CGI
31 - ChromaKeyer basics
32 - Tracking basics

3. 3D Compositing

33 - Overview of 3D compositing
34 - The 3D Viewer
35 - Built-in geometric primitives
36 - Lights
37 - Cameras
38 - Learn how to make a 3D scene
39 - Transform geometry
40 - The Phong shader
41 - Material properties
42 - Project textures - Part 1
43 - Project textures - Part 2
44 - Camera projection
45 - Deform geometry
46 - Render 3D scenes - Part 1
47 - Render 3D scenes - Part 2

Conclusion

48 - Next steps