Free Preview: Hollywood Nuke Techniques for Indie Projects

Check out a free preview of our new intermediate level Nuke course, taught by Joshua Galbincea. With independent productions for new media on the rise, we’ll discuss what we can learn from bigger pipelines and how we can condense and use some of those techniques to enhance and speed up our smaller productions and budgeted pipelines.

We’re excited to be working with Corridor Digital, a highly successful YouTube content creator, with over 3.5 million subscribers and videos which regularly receive over 20 million views. Using Corridor Digital’s footage, we’ll find shortcuts in plotting out and creating effects and see how Nuke and its true 3D compositing environment can speed up out work and make it look top notch! We’ll also do a case study on how Corridor Digital shot their footage to be composited and brought to final.

This course is for those who want to further their knowledge of Nuke and it’s tools, and also for those who want to use Nuke’s power for new media and independent productions. YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, etc. We’ll prepare you to take your work to the next level no matter what the platform.

As a member of fxphd, you’ll have access to the latest full version of Nuke X on our private VPN, which you may use to learn the software and for non-commercial purposes. This is the complete version with no limitations or watermarks. You also have access to a range of other software, including Modo, Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, Arnold Renderer, RenderMan, and more.

To learn more about fxphd, take a moment to check out our how fxphd works page. It has a short video describing how fxphd works, as well as our October Term overview, which highlights the new courses running at fxphd. And while you’re at it, read the full course syllabus for our new Hollywood Nuke Techniques for Indie Projects course running this term.

Prof Joshua Galbincea is an LA based VFX Supervisor who has worked on features, commercials and episodic TV. Currently he is on set supervisor for TV shows. He has experience in all sizes of production, working at vfx houses that finished over 600 shots on a feature film, international commercial spots, to independent fan films, such as Portal: No Escape and other viral hits.