The Nuke Interface

• • Navigating the interface
• • Building Node Graphs
• • Creating key frames

Transformations and Animation

• • Keyframe animation
• • Color and Rotoscoping
• • Nuke’s color management and Color correcting composites
• • Rotoscoping and Masking operations

Compositing CGI and Channels

• • Channels system
• • Multi-pass CG compositing
• • Motion blur and depth of field

Keying

• • Lumakeys
• • Chromakeyers
• • Proper use of Addmix and Keymix nodes
• • How to merge multiple keys

Tracking, Warping and Retiming

• • The Tracker node
• • How to do a match move
• • Spline warp and Grid warp
• • Retiming clips with optical flow

3D Basics

• • Navigating Nuke’s 3D workspace
• • Working with geometric primitives
• • Projecting texture maps
• • Rendering 3D scenes

3D Animation and Shaders

• • Animating and Deforming 3D geometry
• • Adding lights, shaders and materials to geometry

Production Workflows

• • Adding a 3D background to a CG render
• • Camera projection
• • Rig removal
• • Set extension

Camera Tracking

• • How to do camera tracking
• • Converting point clouds to meshes
• • Compensating for lens distortion

Planar Tracker and Particles

• • How to do planar tracking
• • How to use planar tracking results
• • Using Nuke’s 3D particle system
• • Creating your own particles

Advanced 3D Nodes

• • Alembic geometry
• • Modeling 3D geometry from a 2D scene
• • Creating point clouds from CG renders