Nuke: Zero to Hero

Description

Finding Your Way Round Nuke

• Understanding the UI
• Node Graph
• Propertise Panel (Undo, Redo, Revert, etc)
• Viewer
• Toolbar
• Changing, saving and loading Layouts

General Compositing

• General Compositing using Read, Merge, ColorCorrect, Blur, Transform and Write nodes
• Bring audio into Nuke using AudioRead

General Utilities

• Using Dot and Backdrop nodes
• Precomp

2D Techniques – Merging Images

• Layering Images Together with the Merge Node
• Merge Operations
• Generating Contact Sheets
• Copying a Rectangle from one Image to Another

2D Techniques – Transforms

• Image Manipulation using Transform, Crop, Mirror, Reformat and F_Align

2D Techniques – Animation

• The Animation Menu: Set and Delete Key, No Animation, Set to Default
• Curve Editor and Dope Sheet
• Copying data between nodes: Copy (Values, Animation, Links), Paste and Link to (Tracker)
• Basic Expressions

2D Techniques – Concatenation, BBox and BlackOutside

• Understanding concatenation and which nodes do and don’t concatenate
• User standing the BBox and Blackoutside
• Merge (set bbox to)
• CopyBBox, AdjustBBox
• BlackOutside
• Transform (black outside)
• Crop (black outside)
• Using the CurveTool (AutoCrop) with the Crop node

2D Techniques – Image Distortion

• Image Distortion using CornerPin, SphericalTransform, IDistort and STMap
• Morphing and Warping using GridWrap and SplineWarp

2D Techniques – Premultiplied Imagese

• Understanding Premultiplied images
• Using Premult and Unpremult nodes

2D Techniques – Colour Management

• Understanding how monitors work and sRGB
• sRGB vs. Linear
• How Nuke ‘intelligently’ gamma corrects incoming images
• How Nuke chooses the gamma correct settings (…Settings / LUT)
• Nuke’s Viewer LUT
• Writing files out with the correct LUT
• Creating a custom Viewer LUT (…Edit / Nodes / Use as Input Process)
• Working with custom 1D and 3D LUTS I/O and TrueLight
• Remembering Premult on Read with CG images (RGB and Alpha)

2D Techniques – Colour Corrections

• Atomic colour correction using Add, Multiply, Gamma and Saturation
• Working with Premultiplied images containing Alpha.
• Integration colour techniques using Grade, ColorTransfer and F_MatchGrade
• Artistic colour techniques ColorCorrection
• Other colour techniques using: ColorLookup, CCosstalk, EXPTool, HueCorrect, HueShift,
• HSVTool, Toe, Invert, Colorspace, Clamp, F_DeFlicker and Expression (Math)

2D Techniques – ChannelSets and Channels

• Channels Sets and Channels
• Shuffle
• Shuffle Copy vs. Copy
• ChannelCopy
• Node’s ‘Output’ option

2D Techniques – Roto

• Understanding the added Viewer toolbar (side and top)
• Creating shapes using Bezier, B-Spline, Ellipse and Rectangle
• Editing selecting and animating shapes
• Per object and per point feathering
• Understanding the Root layering system
• Transform, Shape, Clone and Lifetime
• Understanding ‘autokey’ and ‘ripple edit’ on top toolbar

2D Techniques – Keying

• Types of Keyers in Nuke
• Chroma
• Color
• Luma
• Main / Max
• Difference
• Image Based
• Proprietary (Ultimate, Keylight and Primatte)
• The use of ‘garbage mattes’
• Combining multiple keyers using ChannelMergeDifferent keying methodologies
• Hard and soft matte
• Spatial mattes
• Combination mattes
• Building a custom Luma keyer
• Using AddMix and KeyMix
• Lightwrap and Edge Blur Integration Tools

2D Techniques – Paint

• Understanding the added Viewer toolbar (side and top)
• Creating paint strokes, clones, reveal, blur, sharpen, smear dodge and burn
• Understanding the Root layering system
• Transform , Stroke, Clone and Lifetime
• Create a clone with a time off-set
• Understanding ‘autokey’, ‘ripple edit’ and ‘allow paint selection’ on top toolbar

2D Techniques – Tracking

• Understanding the basics of tracking
• Creating a Tracker Off-Set (cmd/ctrl)
• T, R and S and how they contribute to the Transformation
• Using Settings to affect how the Tracker tracks
• Using the tracked data
• None, Matchmove, Stabilize, Add Jitter, Remove Jitter and CornerPin
• Good Tracker workflow to avoid breaking concatenation
• Using Planar Tracking
• Using F_Steadiness

2D Techniques – Temporal Operations

• Understanding how the Read node works with footage and time
• Distorting time using Retime, FrameBlend, OFlow, TimeWarp and F_Kronos
• Editing Clips using TimeOffset, FrameRange and AppendClip

2D Techniques – Wire Removal and 2D Rig Removal

• Removing wires using F_WireRemoval
• Removing rigs using F_RigRemoval

2D Techniques – Lens Aberrations and Effects

• Lens Aberrations and Effects using Blur, DirBlur, Defocus, EdgeBlur, Convolve, Soften, Sharpen, Glow, Flare, Sparkles, Glint, GodRays and VolumeRays
• Creating a custom Chromic Aberration effect

2D Techniques – Lens Distortion

• Understanding Lens Distortion workflow
• Types of analysis
• Image AnalysisGrid Analysis
• Line Analysis
• Removing Lens Distortion
• Adding Lens Distortion

2D Techniques – General Effects and Filters

• Effects and Filters using Erode (Fast, Filter, Blur), Bilateral, Median and Matrix
• Creating a custom Sharpen and Defocus effect

2D Techniques – Motion Blur

• Using common motion blur parameters built into the Transform Nodes
• Using Time nodes to add motion blur: TimeBlur and NoTimeBlur
• Using F_MotionBlur

2D Techniques – Grain and Noise Management

• Understanding grain and noise management
• Removing grain and noise using DegrainSimple, DegrainBlue and Denoise.
• Adding grain and noise using Grain, ScannedGrain and F_ReGrain

2D Techniques – Working with Log vs. Lin

CGI Techniques – Compositing Multipass Renders
• Understanding multipass rendering
• Using the render passes
• Ambient
• Ambient Occlusion
• Diffuse
• Specular
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Global Illumination
• Sub-Surface Scatter
• Shuffle vs. ‘In the Pipe’
• Using Arbitary Output Variables
• zDepth
• Motion Vector
• Fresnel
• Normal
• ID

3D Techniques – Basic Techniques

• An Introduction to Nuke’s 3D Environment
• Understanding the core 3D nodes: Card, Camera, ScanlineRender, Axis, Scene and
• TransformGeo
• Using Lights: Point, Spot, Directional and Environment
• Using Shaders: ApplyMaterial, Phong, FillMate and Displacement
• Using Deformers and Modifiers: Trilinear, DisplaceGeo, Normals and MergeGeo
• Snapping in 3D
• Working with .fbx data
• Working with .chan data

3D Techniques – 3D Camera Tracking

• 3D Camera Tracking basics
• Refining the Solve
• Refining the generated 3D Camera
• Working with the Point Cloud data

3D Techniques – Advanced Techniques

• Pan and Tile Setup
• Camera Projections
• 3D Retouch and Rig Removal Techniques
• Set Extensions
• Rotoscoping in 3D
• Coverage Mapping
• Environmental Mapping Techniques
• Working with 3D Data from 3rd Party Applications
• Working with CG Normal and Point passes

3D Techniques – Miscellaneous Techniques

• ProjectionSolver
• Photogrammetry techniques using Modeler
• Dense Point Clouds and Meshes

3D Techniques – RenderMan

• RenderMan shaders: Reflection and Refraction
• Rendering with RenderMan in Nuke
• Working with RenderMan .rib files

3D – Particles

• Emitting and Spawning Particles
• Emitting particles with the ParticleEmitter
• Spawning particles with ParticleSpawn
• Adjusting the Speed and Direction of Particles
• Applying directional force to particles with ParticleDirectionalForce
• Attracting particles to a specific point with ParticlePointForce
• Modifying Particle Movement
• Bouncing particles with ParticleBounce
• Adding drag to the particles to slow them down with ParticleDrag
• Adding turbulence motion on particles with ParticleTurbulence
• Adding spiral motion to particles with ParticleVortex
• Adding a wind effect to particles with ParticleWind
• Adjusting Controls Common to Several Particle Nodes
• Particle rendering controls
• Particle transform controls
• Condition and Region controls
• Customising the Particle Stream
• Adjusting your particle properties with curves using ParticleCurve
• Merging particle streams
• Creating geometry to particles with ParticleToGeo
• Adding expressions to particles with ParticleExpression

Deep Compositing

• Understanding Deep Compositing
• Reading in Deep Footage
• Merging Deep Images
• Creating Holdouts
• Creating 2D and 3D Elements from Deep Images
• Modifying Deep Data
• Cropping, Reformatting and Transforming Deep Images
• Sampling Deep Images
• Creating Deep Data

Stereoscopic Compositing

• Basic Overview to Stereoscopic Production and Compositing
• Setting Up Views for the Script
• Loading Multi-View Images
• Displaying Views in the Viewer
• Selecting Which Views to Apply Changes To
• Performing Different Actions on Different Views
• Reproducing Changes Made to One View
• Swapping Views
• Converting Images into Anaglyph
• Changing Convergence
• Previewing and Rendering Stereoscopic Images
• An Introduction to Stereoscopic Compositing

General Techniques – Meta Data

• Viewing and modifying Metadata

Gizmo Creation

• Creating gizmos
• Managing the gizmo controls
• Sourcing gizmos

Basic Python Techniques

• Understanding menu.py and init.py
• Adding Custom Hotkeys to Existing Nodes
• Adding a Custom Toolbar
• Changing Tool Settings
• Displaying Data from a Knob on the Node in the Node Graph
• Adding Custom Formats
• Creating Saved Layout Names under the Layout Menu