Course starts 28 September 2009.

Registration: Closed

Join Steve Wright, master compositing trainer, for an 8-week introduction to Nuke, the powerful new visual effects compositing program that is taking the visual effects industry by storm.

Developed at Digital Domain, Nuke is now available to the VFX industry from The Foundry. It features a blazing fast 32 bit floating point workflow with full support for 3D compositing, the big new trend in visual effects compositing.

While designed for compositors, this workshop is also ideal for 3D artists that want to understand the Nuke workflow as it is being integrated into modern CGI production pipelines.

Nuke’s importance to the VFX industry is how it moves compositing to the next level as an extension of the 3D department. This is the current trend in visual effects where more and more of the shot development is moved from the 3D department to the 2D department where they are faster and cheaper to produce and revise. This trend will only increase over time, so compositors who want to stay current will need to learn 3D compositing. The addition of 3D compositing skills also upgrades the importance of the compositor in the VFX pipeline with a commensurate increase in prestige and pay.

In this workshop, you will acquire a basic understanding of Nuke and its many advanced compositing tools, most especially 3D compositing. Click on the movie icon here to see a short video about the Nuke Workshop.

Upon completion you will have a full command of the Nuke user interface, its unique color management system, how to work with Nuke’s deep channel management system, HDR images, color correction, masking, keyframe animation, motion blur (2D and 3D), and keying.

SPECIAL BONUS!

By special arrangement with The Foundry, the publisher of Nuke, each student will be given a free 60-day fully licensed version of Nuke for this workshop. Just go to The Foundry Downloads Page and download the PLE version (Personal Learning Edition) of Nuke that is right for your platform. Nuke is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Shortly before the workshop begins students will receive an email from Steve with information on how to get the free 60-day license that will turn the PLE version into a fully licensed version for 60 days.

Steve Wright is a 20 year visual effects veteran with film credits in over 60 feature films such as Blade III, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One, and many, many more. He now travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, creates training programs, conducts location-based and on-line workshops, and has written two highly successful books on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video and Compositing Visual Effects. You can see his IBK keyer video tutorial on The Foundry’s home page here.

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Course starts 29 June 2009.

Registration: Closed

Join Steve Wright, master compositing trainer, for an 8-week introduction to Nuke, the powerful new visual effects compositing program that is taking the visual effects industry by storm.

Developed at Digital Domain, Nuke is now available to the VFX industry from The Foundry. It features a blazing fast 32 bit floating point workflow with full support for 3D compositing, the big new trend in visual effects compositing.

While designed for compositors, this workshop is also ideal for 3D artists that want to understand the Nuke workflow as it is being integrated into modern CGI production pipelines.

Nuke’s importance to the VFX industry is how it moves compositing to the next level as an extension of the 3D department. This is the current trend in visual effects where more and more of the shot development is moved from the 3D department to the 2D department where they are faster and cheaper to produce and revise. This trend will only increase over time, so compositors who want to stay current will need to learn 3D compositing. The addition of 3D compositing skills also upgrades the importance of the compositor in the VFX pipeline with a commensurate increase in prestige and pay.

In this workshop, you will acquire a basic understanding of Nuke and its many advanced compositing tools, most especially 3D compositing. Click on the movie icon here to see a short video about the Nuke Workshop.

Upon completion you will have a full command of the Nuke user interface, its unique color management system, how to work with Nuke’s deep channel management system, HDR images, color correction, masking, keyframe animation, motion blur (2D and 3D), and keying.

This workshop is specially designed to work with the free evaluation version of Nuke, the Personal Learning Edition (PLE), so students will not have to purchase Nuke to take this workshop. Just go to The Foundry Downloads Page and download the PLE version that is right for your platform. Nuke is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Steve Wright is a 20 year visual effects veteran with film credits in over 60 feature films such as Blade III, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One, and many, many more. He now travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, creates training programs, conducts location-based and on-line workshops, and has written two highly successful books on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video and Compositing Visual Effects. You can see his IBK keyer video tutorial on The Foundry’s home page here.

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Course starts 16 February 2009.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to repeat Compositing with Shake with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. As Apple’s Shake has recently been reduced to US$499, it makes this compositing program (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) available to virtually anybody interested in high quality digital compositing of visual effects shots.

This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings.

The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve. Click on the image to the left to see Steve’s introductory video for this workshop.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with his second edition available now.

If you are not already familiar with Shake, an excellent introduction to this application would be to take some or all of Steve's Shake tutorials on Lynda.com. You will not be able to participate in this class if you are not at a level above beginner.

"Steve is a superb instructor and it was a pleasure to learn from him.."
Igor Majdandzic, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

"All of the knowledge that Steve provided. It was well worth the money paid and the information was basically priceless."
Christopher Povinelli, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

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Course starts 25 August 2008.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to repeat Compositing with Shake with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with his second edition available now.

"Steve is a superb instructor and it was a pleasure to learn from him.."
Igor Majdandzic, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

"All of the knowledge that Steve provided. It was well worth the money paid and the information was basically priceless."
Christopher Povinelli, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

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Course starts 18 February 2008.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to repeat Compositing with Shake with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. As Apple’s Shake has recently been reduced to US$499, it makes this compositing program (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) available to virtually anybody interested in high quality digital compositing of visual effects shots.

This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with his second edition available now.

"Steve is a superb instructor and it was a pleasure to learn from him.."
Igor Majdandzic, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

"All of the knowledge that Steve provided. It was well worth the money paid and the information was basically priceless."
Christopher Povinelli, Student, Compositing with Shake, September 17 2007

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Course starts 17 September 2007.

Registration: Closed

Do you want to jump head first into digital compositing? Because CGSociety is thrilled to add digital compositing to our lineup of CG Workshops with Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and digital compositing author Steve Wright. Steve is a senior industry veteran in digital compositing with over 60 impressive film credits such as Blade: Trinity, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One and many, many more.

Drawing on his vast years of experience, Steve will guide and mentor students on the powers of digital compositing with Shake 4.1. As Apple’s Shake has recently been reduced to US$499, it makes this compositing program (used by Weta on Lord of the Rings) available to virtually anybody interested in high quality digital compositing of visual effects shots.

This course is designed for those that are new to Shake or new to digital compositing and works through the core competencies required for compositing visual effects shots today. Each week you will download training videos along with exercise footage that will walk you through compositing bluescreen and greenscreen shots, CGI elements and digital matte paintings. The workshop then goes on to build basic skills for creating photorealistic composites as well as rotoscoping and matte extraction challenges that use high quality feature film elements provided by Steve.

An added bonus is that shots completed in Steve's workshop can be added to the students showreel because the source elements are from Steve's own personal library of feature film scans and HiDef video and have no copyright constraints.

Steve travels around the world conducting digital compositing training for major visual effects facilities, produces training programs, and has written a highly successful book on digital compositing, Digital Compositing for Film and Video with a second book due out in December this year.

More information >>