The Introduction to Nuke Compositing: Full Immersion 2-weeks course (80 hours) has been designed for aspiring artists with little or no professional experience in the visual effects industry. Using the industry standard software Foundry® NUKE™ the course aims to provide the students with the minimum skillset to become roto/prep artist or junior compositor/compositing assistants. With this course the student learns how to use the software at the same time that is learning the fundamental principles of compositing. Having any kind of experience using Nuke™ is a plus but not necessary to take this course, still having any sort of knowledge in any field of visual effects or any software, like, for instance Adobe® After Effects™ is very welcome. The course is completed with film footage to allow the student to practice in class and at home and to create their own showreel to demonstrate the knowledge acquired during the course. 10 classes, 8 hours of training every day, divided in: Compositing Theory and Software Usage (Mornings); Practice and Project Oriented Exercises (Afternoon).
Day 1. Introduction to Digital Image Fundamentals, Nuke GUI
Day 2. CG Integration: Match Grade & Nuke Colour Transformation Nodes
Day 3. 2D Tracking & Planar Tracker: Match-Move and Removal Workflow Fundamentals
Day 4. Rotoscoping Principles: Hard Matte & Soft Matte
Day 5. Introduction to Green Screen Keying: Keylight & Primatte
Half term break (Weekend)
Day 6. Multipass CG Compositing
Day 7. Camera Tracking Workflow
Day 8. 3D Camera Projections
Day 9. Nuke 3D Space Tools (I): The Iron Man HUD Project Day
Day 10. Understanding Grain. De-noise & Re-Grain Workflows
First Run (Italian language): 21.05.18 – 01.06.18
Monday to Friday, from 9am to 6pm (Lunch Break from 1pm to 2pm)
Rerun (Italian language): 17.09.18 – 28.09.18
Monday to Friday, from 9am to 6pm (Lunch Break from 1pm to 2pm)
There are 12 places in total.