Course Description

NUKE is a node-based digital compositing software produced and distributed by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production.

NUKE’s users include Digital Domain, Double Negative, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Framestore, Moving Picture Company, Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic and many other Top tiered VFX Studios around the world. NUKE has been used on productions such as Avatar, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, King Kong, Tron: Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, The Hobbit and Transformers.

Taught by Ganz Ramalingam, this new introductory course will cover the software in much more detail and is a great next step in learning the software



Past Lead Instructor - Comp Vancouver

Ganz Ramalingam

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganz1983/ Students Credits (Comp and FXTD) - http://lostboys-studios.com/showcase/alumni-credits/ List of my Students (Compositing) - http://lostboys-vfx.com/alumni-comp List of my Students (VFX - Discontinued - Class 9 to 14) - http://lostboys-vfx.com/alumni-vfxVFX Blog that I run (updated weekly) - http://lostboys-vfx.com/ My Job Board for Vancouver - http://vfxvancouver.com/ Online Training - https://www.lostboys-learning.com/

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to Nuke

  • 2

    Before We Begin

    • Preferences

    • Project Settings

    • Viewer Settings

    • What is a Cache?

    • Hashing & Caching

    • Different Types of Caches

    • Localization

    • Creating Your Own Project Directories

    • Saving & Opening a Nuke Script

    • Saving Incrementally

    • What is a Nuke Script

    • Absolute & Relative File Paths

    • Preferences

    • Questions?
  • 3

    User Interface

    • Basic Overview

    • Questions?
  • 4

    Panes, Tabs & Workspaces

    • Panes

    • Tabs

    • Workspaces

    • Questions?
  • 5

    Manipulators

    • Sliders

    • In Panel Colour Picker

    • Single Value & Multiple Values Switch

    • Numerical Input

    • Curves

    • Transform Handles

    • Vector Splines

    • Rectangle

    • Rectangle - Constraint

    • 3D Handles

    • Questions?
  • 6

    Reading Images

    • Read Node - Toolbar

    • Read Node - Node Graph

    • Read Node - Tab Search

    • Read Node - TCL

    • Read Node - Drag & Drop

    • 1st Read Node - Frame Range

    • Questions?
  • 7

    Writing Images

    • Write Node - Creation

    • Write Node - Setup

    • Write Node - Read File

    • Questions?
  • 8

    Toolbar

    • Toolbar

    • Toolbar - Node Categories

    • Toolbar - Image

    • Toolbar - Draw 1

    • Toolbar - Draw 2

    • Reference Guide

    • Toolbar - Time 1

    • Toolbar - Time 2

    • Toolbar - Time 3

    • Toolbar - Channel 1

    • Toolbar - Channels 2

    • Toolbar - Color - Rules

    • Toolbar - Color - Atomic Operators

    • Toolbar - Color - Basic Operators

    • Toolbar - Blur - Convolution

    • Toolbar - Blur 1

    • Toolbar - Blur 2

    • Toolbar - Blur 3

    • Toolbar - Keyer 1

    • Toolbar - Keyer 2

    • Toolbar - Keyer 3

    • Toolbar - Merge 1

    • Toolbar - Merge 2

    • Toolbar - Merge 3

    • Toolbar - Transform 1

    • Toolbar - Transform 2

    • Toolbar - Transform 3

    • Toolbar - Transform 4

    • Toolbar - 3D 1

    • Toolbar - 3D 2

    • Toolbar - 3D 3

    • Toolbar - 3D 4

    • Toolbar - Particles & Toolsets

    • Toolbar - Deep

    • Toolbar - Views

    • Toolbar - MetaData

    • Toolbar - Other

    • Questions?
  • 9

    Viewer

    • Viewer

    • Creating & Deleting Viewers & Viewing Multiple Inputs

    • Navigation - 2D

    • Channels - RGB

    • Channels - Alpha, Luminance & Matte Overlay

    • Channels - Matte Overlay

    • Channels - Matching Values Channel by Channel

    • Channelsets / Layers

    • Input Process

    • Viewer Process

    • Composite Display Mode

    • Safe Zone

    • Masking Ratio

    • Clip Warning

    • Proxy Mode

    • Full Frame Processing

    • Region of Interest (ROI)

    • Pause, Unpause & Recalculate

    • Zoom Level

    • Downrez

    • Gain

    • Gamma

    • View Selection

    • Navigation - 3D

    • Viewer Info Bar

    • Overlays

    • Whatever happens in the Viewer stays in the Viewer

    • Questions?
  • 10

    Timeline

    • Timeline

    • In/Out Point

    • FPS

    • Time Display Format

    • VCR Playback Controls

    • Flipbook

    • Capture this Viewer vs Flipbook

    • Lock Viewers

    • Questions?
  • 11

    Node Graph

    • Node Graph

    • Navigation

    • Node - Creation

    • Node - Connecting & Disconnecting

    • Node - Types

    • Node - Swapping Inputs & Nodes

    • Node - Disable & NoOp Controller

    • Node - Iconography

    • Organizing Nodes

    • Bookmarks

    • Node Search

    • Navigator

    • Questions?
  • 12

    Curve Editor

    • Curve Editor

    • Animation Path

    • Curve - Adding Points

    • Curve - Deleting Points

    • Curve - Moving Points

    • Frame Snapping

    • Cut, Copy & Paste Key Frames

    • Generate

    • Edit Expression

    • Interpolation

    • Interpolation - Before & After

    • Predefined

    • Questions?
  • 13

    Dope Sheet

    • Dope Sheet

    • Navigation

    • Key Frames - Scale

    • Key Frames - Move

    • Key Frames - Copy & Paste Relative / Absolute

    • Key Frames - Delete

    • Frame Range

    • Synchronize Frame Ranges

    • All Read Nodes

    • Questions?
  • 14

    Properties

    • Properties Bin

    • Node Properties - Menu Bar

    • Node Properties - Common Node Tab

    • Questions?
  • 15

    Scopes

    • Vectorscope

    • Vectorscope - Viewer Changes

    • Waveform

    • Waveform - ColorBars - PAL Mode

    • Waveform - ColorWheel

    • Waveform - Luminance

    • Histogram

    • Scopes - Viewer Zoom Levels

    • Questions?
  • 16

    Pixel Analyzer

    • Pixel Analyzer

    • Pixel Analyzer - Pixel Selection

    • Pixel Analyzer - Full Frame

    • Pixel Analyzer - Sample Application

    • Questions?
  • 17

    Other Important Things

    • Legacy Nodes

    • Progress Bar

    • Error Console

    • Script Editor

    • Script Editor - Sample Application

    • Group

    • Group - Controllers

    • Gizmo

    • Gizmo - Text Copy

    • Init.py

    • menu.py - Creating an Icon

    • menu.py - Adding Gizmos to Toolbar

    • Questions?
  • 18

    Useful Shortcuts

    • Shortcuts - All Panes

    • Shortcuts - Node Graph 1

    • Shortcuts - Node Graph 2

    • Shortcuts - Node Graph 3

    • Shortcuts - Viewer

    • Shortcuts - Properties Bin

    • Questions?
  • 19

    Continued Learning

    • FXGuide.com

    • ArtofVFX.com

    • CGMeetup.net

    • CGSociety.org

    • LostBoys-VFX.com

    • LostBoys-Studios.com

    • Lost Boys - 2016 Compositing Student Montage

    • Questions?
  • 20

    Your Questions Answered!

    • Difference between Tracker and Planar Tracker

    • Combining 3D and 2D Images Using the ZMerge node

    • Compositing an Image that has no Alpha

Reviews

5 star rating

Good Intro

David Koss

Coming into this course without any prior knowledge of Nuke, this was a very good way to familiarize myself with the Nuke UI. I feel much more comfortable wh...

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Coming into this course without any prior knowledge of Nuke, this was a very good way to familiarize myself with the Nuke UI. I feel much more comfortable when I open Nuke, and I feel that I will be more capable of following other tutorials and courses now that I know the layout and hotkeys. The only negative thing I can say about this course is that it gets a little boring when explaining some sections of Nuke, but I think this is hard to avoid. I was able to maintain my interest by following along with everything. Overall, a very good course. Would recommend.

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