Our Nuke Master Class was held in London on 29.01.09. Many thanks to our speakers: Frank Rueter, Roy Stelzer, Tahl Niran, Matt Leonard and our own Jon Wadelton for agreeing to share their assets. Thanks also to Realise Studio for the material. Enjoy!
The sessions were filmed by fxphd.com and can be downloaded below. fxphd offers beginning through advanced Nuke training online at fxphd.com
Here are the images, gizmos and scripts that accompany the presentations.
Steve Wright, senior visual effects artist, trainer and author, has put together a keying tutorial for Nuke's Image Based Keyer (IBK). If, like me, you've struggled to understand the IBK, you'll find this friendly and informative guide invaluable.
Accompanying the Quicktime movie tutorial are green screen images that you can download and use to practice what you've learned.
IBK Tutorial Images
Renowned providers of online training for VFX professionals - Fxphd – have teamed up with The Foundry to bring you ‘The Compositor’s Guide To Nuke’. fxphd.com professor, Sean Devereaux, takes you through the core elements of this powerful compositing application.
Training Centres - Online Training - Freelance Trainers
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01zero-one
London, United Kingdom
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01zero-one, in the heart of Soho, has established a reputation as a centre of excellence for training and skills development across the converging sectors of London's audio visual and interactive digital media industries. It provides short courses and master classes in film, TV, interactive and digital media addressing developments in technology, creative content and business management. Its InSync network encourages new thinking, innovation, commercial partnerships and creative collaboration.
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Andrei Gheorghiu
Canada
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For over a decade, Andrei has been working as a digital artist/compositor for post production facilities in Europe and Canada. His background includes work for over 10 feature films ( 2k/4k , stereo) mostly done with Nuke and broadcast design for television channel ( ABC , CNBC, Global and more).
Andrei offers Nuke training and services for Canada and abroad. In 2008, he opened Nuke Network at www.linkedin.com and created a free forum for Nuke users, at nukenetwork.forumotion.com with his own examples of IBK keyer and the usage of HSV tool.
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CICE, Escuela Profesional de Nuevas Tecnologías
Spain
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CICE is a private training center with 30 years of experience in computer arts and digital video education. In words of Mayec Rancel, recent student at CICE, “in my daily professional FX work, I profit from my past training at CICE. Learning through practice, with the guidance of active professionals, has allowed me to work at ease and be competitive inside the limitations, goals and challenges of real production. It also provided me with a pool of professional contacts, both as trainers and classmates, which has proved invaluable often times in my career."
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Clusters
India
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Clusters School of Digital Arts is a unique facility offering professional training for artists in the entertainment and design industries. Cluster’s was launched as a means to develop high end professional techniques for people who have the goal to excel in life with a passion for creativity and success. We have opened our doors in the heart of the emerging technology and business hubs of India – Trivandrum in Kerala and Bangalore in Karnataka.
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cmiVFX
Online Training
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Leading technological training for visual effects artists.
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Escape Studios
London, United Kingdom
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Escape Studios has built a reputation delivering premium training, recruitment, software and hardware services to the global computer graphics (CG) community. The London based company boasts one of the world's foremost schools of computer animation and visual effects. Unlike anywhere else in the world Escape's partnerships with top studios gives students the opportunity to work on 'live' visual effects and games projects such as Battlefield 360 (X-Box 360) and X-Men 3 : The Last Stand.
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Escuela Trazos
Madrid, Spain
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Escuela Trazos is the high-performance center for digital imaging leader in Spain. It is characterized by providing specific and advanced training with a continued investment in the latest technologies, official recognitions of hardware and software developers, and a strong connection and support by companies in the film, 3D production, design and advertising fields.
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Frameboxx
India
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Started by a team of Industry professionals with over 10 years of Production and Education business experience, Frameboxx is a leading Animation & Visual Effects training brand and offers comprehensive skills specialization based courses across 50+ state of the art training studios in India. The courses at Frameboxx have been designed after extensive research involving some of the top studios and experts from across the world and are taught by a team of highly specialized mentors. To train students in an actual production unit environment, Frameboxx has a unique Incubation Facility, which is a fully functional production house with industry supervisors and is aimed at providing Industry internship to course grads. The Blueboxx 1 Course at Frameboxx features Digital Compositing techniques using Nuke covers a wide array of production techniques as required by the Animation, Visual Effects and Broadcast industries worldwide. This course has been exclusively designed by world renowned Visual Effects expert Steve Wright.
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fxphd
Online Training
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fxphd was created by the founders of fxguide.com, the ultimate resource for high-end compositing and post production on the web. We provide high quality internet training targeting visual effects professionals.
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Lost Boys Learning
Vancouver Island, Canada
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Lost Boys Learning is North America's only dedicated accredited visual effects school with world-class training in photo-realistic 3D and compositing for film and television. Boasting a 94% placement rate Lost Boys Learning offers a specialized 1 year Visual Effects Diploma on Vancouver Island, Canada. Our students work with an experienced mentor in a project-based learning environment, covering VFX pre-production and shooting, 3D for VFX and compositing.
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Paul Kirwan
Canberra, Australia
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Paul provides beginner, intermediate, and expert Nuke training and services for Australasia and the Asia Pacific region. He has a decade-long career in visual effects for feature film, broadcast design, commercials and on-set VFX supervision and is currently a professor at the Australian National University.
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Pixerati/Damian Allen
Los Angeles, CA USA
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Pixerati specializes in consulting and training for high-end visual effects work. Training focuses on problem-solving, rather than button pushing. Specialties include stereoscopy, comprehensive keying workflow, from key screen treatments to background wrap and edge work, multipass compositing pipelines, and CG/live action integration.
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Sean Devereaux
Los Angeles, CA USA
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Sean Devereaux is the lead Nuke professor at fxphd.com. He has been using Nuke since 2000, working as a compositor at Digital Domain on Hollywood blockbusters such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas, I, Robot, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Freelance work has taken him to studios such as ILM (Transformers), Hydraulx (Rise of the Silver Surfer), and others where he has used a variety of compositing packages.
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Soho Editors
United Kingdom (London, Manchester, Belfast), USA (New York)
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Soho Editors Training has been a leading provider of Post Production Training since 2000. Soho Editors Training occupies state-of-the-art suites of training rooms in Central London, Manchester, Belfast as well as New York. We offer a full range of beginner to advanced and bespoke courses in post production.
Soho Editors has developed in conjunction with the industry a series of short form courses for NUKE ideally suited to the Visual Effects professional. A 5-Day comprehensive introduction to NUKE and a 3-day SHAKE to NUKE (available soon) conversion course are available in a classroom enviroment or fully bespoke courses can be created to meet your specific requirements.
We are committed to providing only the highest quality training by expert trainers, all of whom have active careers as professional Post-Production operators, as well as being first class tutors. We are able to cater for all users, regardless of experience, and also run Xsan and OS X technical training courses to complement the pro-application training.
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spherevfx
United Kingdom
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Sphere VFX is an international training company specializing in highend 3D, Compositing and Visual Effects. Our production driven courses are designed to help you improve your skills, increase your productivity and produce cutting edge effects work. We have training packages for the complete beginner through to the more advanced user and can also provide custom designed courses where needed. Many of our courses are carried out directly on-site at our clients facilities and where necessary run alongside a live project. All our training courses include practical ‘hands on’ exercises and are kept constantly up to date as new software releases become available.
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Steve Wright Digital FX
Los Angeles, CA USA
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Steve Wright is a Los Angeles based senior industry veteran with 20 years of VFX production experience that literally wrote the book on Digital Compositing. With 70 television commercials and over 60 feature film credits he has encyclopedic knowledge of VFX compositing in the real world of production. He is now a master trainer for VFX compositing, conducting classes, on-line workshops, and traveling to VFX facilities around the world to conduct staff training. He now offers Nuke training to the VFX community with training programs tailored to the specific needs of each client.
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