Course Overview

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  Nick Deboar

  Nick Deboar has been working in the animation and VFX industry for almost 10 years, specializing in Lighting and Surfacing. After ...

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• Week by week outline

  
  

  Week 1:

  Videos:

  • Introduction
  • Setting up workspace/preferences
  • Working with premultiplied images
  • What is linear color, and how Nuke deals with it.
  • Multi-Channel EXR workflow
  • How to split up a multi channel exr into its individual components (diffuse,specular,reflection), and then composite them to match the beauty render.

   

  Assignment 1:

  Students will build a basic Nuke template using supplied multi-channel EXRs.

   

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  Week 2:

  Videos:

  • Creating Gizmos
  • Setting up a Nuke environment (defaults, installing plugins/gizmos)
  • Expressions
  • Stereo workflows in Nuke

   

  Assignment 2:

  Students need to create a Gizmo that lets you add a glow to an image.

   

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  Week 3:

  Videos:

  • Depth of Field overview
  • Nuke ZBlur
  • PG Bokeh
  • Zdepth fog
  • Post Motion Blur using Motion Vectors
  • Deep compositing overview

   

  Assignment 3:

  Using example EXRs, create one scene demonstrating Post Depth of Field, and another demonstrating Post Motion Blur.

   

   

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  Week 4:

  Videos:

  • Importing 3d Data into Nuke, FBX overview
  • Creating 3D skies in Nuke
  • Projecting mapping
  • Creating 3D mattes
  • Using Reconcile 3D for creating animated Lens Flares
  • Rendering stereo images in Nuke

   

  Assignment 4:

  Using all the skills learnt this week, students will create a Nuke scene with a 3D Sky and a Lens Flare.

   

   

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  Week 5:

  Videos:

  • Eye reflections: Highly art directable eye reflections and pings are essential on an animated feature. Doing them in Nuke can save a lot of render time
  • UV mapping in Nuke using UV passes
  • Creating reflections in nuke using envRelight

   

  Assignment 4:

  Build a gizmo to automate eye reflections.

   

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  Week 6:

  Videos:

  • Position Passes overview
  • Point distance
  • Creating fast mattes using position passes.
  • Point cards
  • For rotoscoping in stereo, and tracking in 2d cards
  • Python scripting in Nuke
  • Transform concatanation

   

  Assignment 6:

  Create a gizmo for the point distance expression.

• Student requirements

  
  Students are expected to have a basic understanding of Nuke or similar node based compositors.