One thing we’ve wanted to do with the blog is to let members know what is going on in other classes…things they might have missed. The heart of fxphd has always been compositing, and our first ever advanced Nuke course has been a lot of fun. Taught by longtime Nuke artist Sean Devereaux, it’s our first course done in version 5. Devereaux has been using the app for years…he’s done time at DD working on Star Trek: Nemsis, I, Robot, and the recent Speed Racer.
Since it is an advanced course, due to the complexity of a shot, we decided to cover a single shot over multiple classes. It’s an HD resolution greenscreen shot covering matchmoving, keying, object replacement, and environment creation. Deveraux coordinated the generation of assets from other fxphd profs and artists around the world — including tracking data, 3D object creation for projections, and multi-channel open EXR CGI renders. It’s about 1TB of material per course member — that’s a hell of a lot of bandwidth.
On top of the great project-based classes, the last two classes of the term are sure to be hit. We’ve got guest prof Frank Reuter sharing his knowledge, whom many consider to be the worldwide king of nuke tools and customization.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Yeah, rub it in
. I couldn’t the April08-term and now i have to see that - together with TOX201 - it’s probably(?) not going to be repeated next term. Is this a fixed thing or is there a chance we’ll be seeing these courses back in July08!?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Im taking the Nuke 300 class, and its AWESOME!!
Sean is doing a great work with the 4 week project classes, (and the rest of the classes as well of course). Its a hell of a lot of work, but its a blast to do it.
Cheers /Martin
June 8th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I have to agree big win here, we are about to get class 3 of the 4 class “big shot” if you want to learn nuke, your plain and simple stupid for not being here. I’ve seen all the traning out there for this software..this is the best.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:56 am
This sounds great but is there really 1TB of data (I assume that’s 1000GB?) for the course? OK, so its over 11 weeks (inc break week) so each week we need to download 91GB on average. In fact, since I’ve got the first 2 lessons and know its content is only a few hundred MB, we’ll have to do the majority over a few weeks for the ‘big’ project. I really want to sign up for the course but with my ISP limitations, I don’t want to find I can’t get hold of the content (ignoring data transfer caps, on a 2Mb connection it would take over 48 days solid to get hold of 1TB). I’m not trying to be smart just genuinely want to do the course but not if I can’t get the course footage for my reel/to follow along). Can anyone shed any further light on this please?
June 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Well…it’s actually 1TB of material transferred during the week for the members taking the course — so it is quite a bit of material. It’s over a gig for each member. It is a sequence of HD uncompressed green screen along with cgi renders. The entire course has just over 2GB of data with it thus far…..
(corrected post)
June 13th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Thanks John - sounds great. I think I’ll sign up…all the feedback seems to be really good so far.