Introduction to Nuke VFX Compositing: The Essentials - NK101 (Udemy.com)

A full Nuke visual effects training course for VFX Compositing in Nuke. Final project of a Junior Compositor shot!

Created by: Alexander Hanneman

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Nuke's User Interface
  • Concepts and techniques for digital compositing
  • Additive color theory
  • Image formats / resolutions / colors
  • 2d Tracking
  • Rotopaint and Rotoscoping
  • Keyframe animation
  • Color correction / color grading techniques
  • Introduction to Chroma Keying / Greenscreen removal
  • Camera traits (Lens distortion, grain, sensor noise)
  • Cleanplating and removing objects from a scene
  • Rendering
  • Good compositing habits, compositing workflow and hierarchy, script organization

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

This Nukevisual effects training course will take you through the fundamental concepts of VFXCompositing in Nuke, and how to learn the user interface. By the end of the course, you will successfully be able to composite what would be considered a "Junior Digital Compositing" shot. The final project includes all of the techniques you learn along the way. The class is focused primarily on the 2Daspects of compositing to get you started. It involves replacing a background, color correcting and blending the foreground and background, motion tracking the background to the foreground, and seamlessly bringing it all together.
As a bonus, you learn how to create an animated hologram effect from scratch appearing in front of the character!
There will be a lot of theory you need to learn first before you can successfully composite a shot, and with anything worth learning there is a learning curve. But if you persist through you will have a great payoff and skillset at the end, and a great shot to show off that you created!
A thank you to the BLENDERFOUNDATION and Xiph for providing the free footage of the green screen!
Note:
You will be required to sign up and download the project files if you want to follow along with this classWho this course is for:
People who have no experience with digital compositing and are curious to learnBeginners with experience in another image software (I.
E Photoshop or After Effects) and want to transition into Nuke

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Instructor Details

Alexander Hanneman

I have a background and Bachelor's Degree of Science in Computer Animation, with a specialty in Digital Compositing.

My experience includes many feature films, which can be found on my IMDBpage if searched for.("Alex Hanneman")

A few of these films include:
Avengers:End Game
Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker

Alien:Covenant
X-Men Apocalypse
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them


I have worked internationally at many feature film visual effects studios, moving around the globe to do digital compositing and being paid to do so.
During this time, Ihave worked on numerous hero shots on feature films, and have been involved in look development and creating compositing tools for various projects. Ihave experience in all areas of compositing through my years of work.
Given my deep experience in the industry, Ibelieve if you take my courses you will have something worthwhile to gain out of it.Thank you.

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Reviews

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By Melis Alpas on 11/21/2020

Alex's course is great for people who are new in the industry. I was already familiar with most of the stuff he was teaching but still helped to polish my knowledge. I also think he is a good presenter and I already purchased his other tutorials. Hopefully, he will continue doing more tutorials! Thanks Alex:)

By Anonymous on 11/7/2020

Perfect lecture!

By Gavin Saville on 11/7/2020

Very good course. Worth working through to the end when it comes together in a work flow. Reassuring to know that skills learnt in other software are quite transferable. Well worth the money.

By Fernando Campos on 11/7/2020

This is a great class if you are a complete newb(like myself) and are starting from scratch. I have dabbled in other compositing and editing programs so I had some familiarity with the ideas but this really helped with this specific program. I watched some other tutorials and other classes and they assumed you had some basic knowledge of Nuke which is fine but this class is what you want to take if you are completely new. Well organized and updated. Thank you.

By Maher Demerdash on 10/25/2020

FYI I have 7 videos left to finish the whole course.
I really wish I can put 4-5 stars but I decided to put 2 stars. Here is why:
Let's start with the positives first:
1- The instructor is knowledgable and it can show in his videos.
2- In his examples, he uses simple examples to convey the concept.
The poor things:
1- The teaching style he decided to take doesn't work well in my opinion. He basically gives you the final project and show you each node function and what it does. This is a poor way to teach. This is my opinion and maybe some people prefer this style. I think it would have been an outstanding course if after each theory concept, there is a mini project and exercise of us to do from scratch rather than just looking at the final project and copying nodes and recreating it again. This is the main reason why I gave the course a poor rating.
2- Sound. As mentioned by others. That being said, the instructor acknowledge that and it is obvious he fixed the sound in his subsequent courses. You could still hear everything he says.
3- In the course description he stated that after finishing this course you will be able to have a Jr compositing role. Now, I am sure he would know better since he works in the industry but I really doubt that this is the case after finishing this course ESPECIALLY there are no exercises or projects for the students to do from scratch. Again, I don't know that for sure since I have not worked in the industry before.
I think I might re do the course again and maybe try to create my own mini projects and see if it helps. If it does, I will come back and change my rating.

By R B on 10/21/2020

Cours trs complet, on apprends bien plus que des bases. Alex Hanneman a rpondu mes attentes concernant les sous-titres anglais d mon problme auditif. Merci Alex!

By Dario Maria Caiani on 10/21/2020

the teaching is good but the audio is poor

By Marco Thoms on 10/15/2020

Es ist sehr gut.

By Monica Garcia on 10/13/2020

This course is an amazing course!
Alexander Hanneman is not only an amazing professional digital compositor, but also a good teacher and presenter. I sincerely appreciate the effort, time and organization spent creating the classes, with different short videos and the point of focus of each one, all supported by excellent exercise to practise with, short and concise quiz to learn after each block with short explanations of why is correct that answer.
I want to say thank you for creating such an amazing and helpful content that gives a new perspective and available opportunities.

By Pavan Kumar Endarapu on 10/10/2020

Good Course, if you are moving from After Effects to Nuke its recommended, I think I'm disappointed with the course is the Narrator is moving from mac to windows sometimes the audio is going very noisy. and also there are many more background sounds than the narrator's voice, some of the time video ending without a proper ending.

By Sunil kumar Nayak on 9/25/2020

Thank you sis for this kind of course.

By Hakam Kharraz on 9/25/2020

Very helpful course for beginners who want to learn how to composite in NUKE. You can tell Alexander has a lot of knowledge and can also explain everything really well.