Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects by Ron Ganbar

By Ron Ganbar

For lots of visible results artists who're simply beginning out or are relocating from After results, Shake, Fusion, or one other compositing instrument, they're studying that Nuke is instantly changing into the function movie compositing typical. whereas there are numerous on-line turorials and classes to be had, there's at present no publication out there in the event you want to know the entire fine details of the software program. before.

Nuke a hundred and one covers every little thing readers want to know to start utilizing the compositor for his or her initiatives. It contains step by step classes on uncomplicated and complicated compositing, colour correction, Roto Paint, keying, monitoring, in addition to extra complicated subject matters resembling utilizing CGI and the 3D engine.

The tasks used during the booklet are in response to real-world examples construction paintings and provide hard-worn suggestion from the professionals who paintings within the trenches on high-end compositing paintings. After interpreting the recommendations and following alongside within the tasks, readers can have a superb starting place for operating in Nuke and manage to subscribe to the ranks of its many enthusiasts and adopters.

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My goal with this book is to get you up-and-running with the program and give you the skills you need for doing your own compositing projects in Nuke. Who this book is for This book is for anyone interested in learning Nuke. Whether you舗re an artist experienced in using Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Flame, Apple Shake, or Eyeon Fusion, or you only have a basic understanding of compositing and image manipulation concepts, this book will guide you through the necessary theory and practice you need to use Nuke舒from a basic level to Nuke舗s more advanced toolset.

Inserting and Manipulating Nodes in the Tree In the composite you are working on, the doll is obviously not in the right position to look like it舗s following basic laws of physics. You would probably like to move it and scale it down. ) add another node to the doll stream舒a Transform node this time. The Transform node is a 2D axis that can reposition an image on the X and Y axes and rotate, scale, and skew (skew is sometimes called shear). Because you only want to reposition the foreground image, you need to connect the Transform node somewhere in the foreground (the doll) stream.

Click Read1 in the Node Graph, and then choose Flipbook Selected from the Render menu (or press Alt/Opt-F). Tip You can also use the Flipbook This button in the Viewer itself, which will flipbook whatever you are currently viewing. 23). This panel allows you to change what it is you want to flip and how. Most of the properties here will become apparent as you learn more about Nuke. The main thing this panel is asking is what range of frames you would like to render into a flipbook. This is the Frame range property.

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