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Level up your VFX! Go from After Effects and Learn Nuke
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Level up your VFX! Go from After Effects and Learn Nuke

Learn VFX Compositing in Nuke the easy way. Made for people who have experience in After Effects or Photoshop!
Created byAlexander Hanneman
Last updated 7/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Easily transition over from After Effects into Nuke, and apply what you already know to a Node based software!
  • Comparing the two interfaces, and learning how to do the basic tasks
  • Learning the differences between the software, and why Node based compositing is superior
  • The basic tools and interface of Nuke
  • The concepts of node based compositing, versus layer based compositing
  • Understand how to structure a composite in Nuke
  • Basic shapes, rotoscoping, and constants
  • Pre-comping in After Effects, versus hierarchy in Nuke
  • Saving out files
  • AE Effects panel VS Node Panel

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 49m total length

  • Introducing your Instructor3:14
  • Why is Nuke better? Why is everyone using it?4:12
  • Nodes versus layers, understanding the concepts3:21

    Explore the node-based workflow in Nuke, compare nodes to layers, and use merge nodes with pre-merge color corrections in a modular, reusable effects pipeline from background to foreground.

Requirements

  • Have an understanding of After Effects (this is an After Effects to Nuke course!)
  • Install Nuke (It's FREE for non-commercial use!)

Description

This free course is a short training on moving over from After Effects and leveling up to a more powerful and capable and industry standard software, Nuke.

Nuke is capable of more complex compositing through a visual node-based compositing system.


Is this course the right one?:
-If you're serious about getting good at compositing, you need to be learning Nuke

-The instructor is a digital compositor who has worked on numerous Hollywood blockbuster films, at the highest level.


You will learn in this After Effects to Nuke Training:
-The difference between node based, and layer based compositing
-The basics of the Nuke interface

-Editing properties, learning about different node types and effects

-Learning basic color correction

-Learn about the timeline, and how to set keyframes and create basic animations

-The difference between after effects "precomp" system, and Nuke's viewer system

-How to render out of Nuke


There is a small project file associated with this class to follow along with, with a sign up and free download if you want to follow along.







Who this course is for:

  • People familiar with After Effects, who want to step up in VFX and learn Nuke!
  • Beginners in Nuke who are unfamiliar with the software
  • Individuals curious about "node based" compositing, instead of layers

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