This advanced Nuke course is designed as the followup to our NUK204 intermediate level course. Professor Sean Deveraux will work through several short projects during the term which are designed to focus on real world tasks and key strengths of Nuke.
Devereaux has pushed pixels on over 25 feature films and 50 commercials. He is currently a vfx supervisor at ZERO VFX in Boston. His feature credits include Transformers, The Proposal, Peter Pan and Vanilla Sky and he has worked with some of the best studios in the world including Pixar, Digital Domain and Industrial Light+Magic.
Class Listing
Class 1
Starting off this term with a bang! We'll be adding explosions, bullets and other forms of mayhem to a very cool shot of a motor cycle fleeing the scene. We will focus on NukeX's camera tracker and how to harness its power in the real world.
Class 2
Continuing our look at Nuke's powerful 3D system, we will create some geometry, place it it properly in 3D space, do some projection work and even look at an overview of the LensDistortion node.
Class 3
More 3D Camera Tracker and projection work including how to fix some common problems and setting up your script for easier repeatable tasks.
Class 4
Advanced Gizmo/tool creation, an introduction to python expressions as well as sky replacement, color work and lots of bullet hits.
Class 5
Part 1 of a 2 part lesson focusing on a production shot from the film "Moving Day". Work includes lots of practical element manipulation, multi pass compositing and advanced solutions to common tracking problems.
Class 6
Part 2 of a 2 part lesson focusing on a production shot from the film "Moving Day". Work includes lots of practical element manipulation, multi pass compositing and some neat depth and perspective tricks.
Class 7
Digital climate control. A lesson in compositing as much as it is in image processing. We'll take a shot 180 degrees from burning desert to icy tundra. Part 1 of 2
Class 8
Part 2 of 2 of some digital climate control. A lesson in compositing as much as it is in image processing. We'll take a shot 180 degrees from burning desert to icy tundra.
Class 9
The power of dense point clouds and poisson meshes. Two of the most useful and powerful tools in Nuke which will make your comp life all the better for knowing them.
Class 10
Special class reserved for Nuke updates and student requests.