Nuke 5 Essential Training

Provides both a solid foundation of the Nuke 5 core functions of keying, motion tracking, and color correcting, and an overview of 3D compositing.Nuke 5 Essential Training was created and produced by Steve Wright. We are honored to host his material in the lynda.com Online Training Library®. Nuke 5 Essential Training is designed for digital artists already familiar with compositing visual effects using programs like Adobe After Effects or Shake. This course provides a solid foundation in operating Nuke, using the core functions of keying, motion tracking, and color correcting, as well as Nuke’s key strength, 3D compositing. Tour the Nuke user interface, its unique color management system, and overviews of HDR images, masking, keyframe animation, and 2D and 3D motion blur. Exercise files accompany the course. Topics include: Navigating the Nuke 5 interface Building node trees 2D transformations Rotoscoping Keyframe animation Editing animation curves Color correcting Multi-pass CGI compositing Working with Nuke channels Bluescreen and greenscreen compositing 2D motion tracking Math expressions 3D compositing