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



Compositing Intructor

Jon Anasasiades

"When a student unlocks some idea, some project they've always wanted to do, I just find that really, really rewarding." I used to watch classic Star Trek with my mom. She loves sci-fi and I have early memories of me maybe being five or six years old and watching the original Captain Kirk Star Trek and wondering how they did the transporters and the phasers and the spaceship. It blew my mind back then and it really sparked a curiosity on how do they do that kind of thing. I would go to the library and take out every book on special effects. I was sort of fascinated by it. Now I have worked on over 60 films and television shows for about 25 years; probably a dozen big commercials, some music videos, art installations and projection mapping for artists. Everything from small independent stuff with no budget to some of the biggest budget Hollywood films to ever come out. I’ve got pretty fresh technical and hands-on studio know-how. I know what studios expect. I want to share that with students so that they know not just the technical skills, but the soft skills, focusing on the most practical ones that will get you work. Lost Boys School has a really good reputation. I want students to continue to elevate the reputation here by having all this great practical knowledge that we can bring to the workforce. Do you have any advice for people pursuing a career in Visual Effects? A lot of the times you’re going to do things that seem like menial tasks. There’s a lot of repetition, not everything is blowing up the Death Star. You might touch shots like that a few times in your career. You’re going to do a lot of basic stuff, but you can find a beauty in it and passion in it and creativity in even the smallest thing. And if you demonstrate that, and you bring that even on your small, easy shots, in no time, you’re going to be awarded bigger and better work. So try and do your best, even with the smallest thing, treat it like it’s the biggest thing and people will notice that and you’ll go further.

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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