Nuke Compositing Masterclass: Keying - Part 2, Module 2

Name: Nuke Compositing Masterclass: Keying - Part 2, Module 2
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Master the Advanced Professional Compositing craft with this intensive, career-focused course.

Created byAshish Somkuwar

Last updated 4/2025

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What you'll learn

Practical and Real World High-End VFX Studio Workflows, Techniques and Tools.
Art and Science of High-quality Keying and Visual effects Compositing.
Screen based keying an Compositing
The Art of Edge Blending & Integration.
Keying and Compositing
Keying Production Strategy
VFX Studio Pipeline
Despill Nodes in Nuke
Preprocess Paint-Prep
Soft Matte, Core Matte, Filler Matte
Keyer Pre-processing and Clean Plate Preparation
Soft despill, Core Despill and Edge Despill
The Foundry Nuke Keying Compositing
Nuke Scripts and VFX Pipeline management.
Expression Keying
Keylight Keying
Primatte Keying
After effect Keying
IBK Keying
Key Preprocess
Screen Correction
Real World High-end VFX Studio Workflows, Techniques and Tools.

Course content

2 sections • 20 lectures • 10h 50m total length

Course Trailer7:41
Explore advanced keying and creative compositing in a month-long masterclass that trains you to analyze plates, meet VFX expectations, and produce pixel-perfect composites.
Course Materials0:02

4_1. Overview11:04
Explore a reference node graph workflow for high end keying, including clean plates, matte extraction, spill suppression, edge refinement, and grain matching to achieve seamless foreground and background composites.
Project Files0:02
4_2. Shot Overview, Key Preprocess28:48
Master shot pre-processing for keying in nuke using precomp setups with I plate, IP plate, IG plate, IAM plates, and environment plates; optimize denoise, matte extraction, and spill suppression.
4_3. Clean Plate - Preprocess35:28
Learn to create a refined clean plate through pre-processing using Primate, IBCC, and complementary colors to produce soft, core, and filler mattes for robust key extraction.
4_4. Keying - Soft Matte, Core Matte, Filler Matte40:28
Prepare a robust alpha matte with pre-process and Iebc to create a clean plate, then distribute it into soft matte, core matte, and filler matte for precise keying.
4_5. Keying - Matte Adjustment11:38
Master keying techniques with matte adjustment, roto, and core matte workflows to clean backings, preserve soft edges, and reduce artifacts using merge, key mix, and soft mat.
4_6. Keying - Matte Output17:10
Master matte output in Nuke by refining soft mattes with roto, grid, and final alpha adjustments for a clean, pixel-perfect integration.
4_7. Despill - Despill Nodes in Nuke42:16
Discover how to perform despill in Nuke with hue correct and keylight for green and blue screens, refine edges, and balance display color using display bias.
4_8. Despill - Make your Despill from Equations1:09:41
Learn nuke despill techniques for green and blue screens, using green limited by red and blue, blue limited by red, and channel averaging to refine spill while protecting the foreground.
4_9. Despill - Despill Plugins31:37
Explore despill with two plugins, PCB spill and spill madness, using masks, suppression, limiter, and spill trick to remove green and blue spill while preserving skin tone.
4_10. Despill - Preprocess the Screen21:33
Demonstrate the despill pre-process for spill suppression by shuffling the matte from alpha to rgb and subtracting it from the input plate, then apply screen correction in rgb.
4_11. Despill - Soft Despill, Core Despill20:02
Explore how to apply soft spill and code spill to suppress blue spill around edges, preserve foreground color, and prepare for pre-multiplication in keying workflows.
4_12. Despill - Spill Map, BG, Processed Despill1:16:10
Master despill workflows in Nuke: create spill maps, apply process foreground with background color, offset background at the edges, and premultiply for a seamless blue/green screen composite.
4_13. Despill - Edge Despill, Edge Artifacts & Comp Review1:17:07
Learn edge despill techniques to remove blue spill around foreground edges and blend with background using soft spill, code spill, edge display, roto, and matte refinements.
4_14. Edge Correction & Additive Key1:12:31
Explore edge correction and additive key techniques in Nuke keying, refining edges, suppressing spills, and enhancing detail with multi-node blur, erode, and roto workflows for pixel-perfect composites.
4_15. Composite - Processed Premult FG56:01
Harness processed premultiplied foreground blending with background through additive keying, process spill, and a dilate mask to preserve detail and reduce noise. Explore edge refinement and noise control.
4_16. Composite - Lightwrap13:43
Blend foreground and background edges with light wrap, using premultiplied foreground and background, first soft light wrap then a sharper light wrap, adjusting intensity before final composite.
4_17. Composite - Final Output17:13
Learn to produce the final output in Nuke by refining the compositing with a clean node graph, adding backdrops and color checks, then render and compare against the original plate.

Requirements

Very Basic Nuke Compositing knowledge
1. Prerequisites course: Nuke Compositing Masterclass: Keying - Part 1
2. Prerequisites course: Nuke Compositing Masterclass: Keying - Part 2, Module 1
The Foundry Nuke : Windows / Mac (Commercial OR Non-Commercial)
Have a Passion & Eagerness to Learn How Actual Movie Magic is Created

Description

'Nuke Compositing Masterclass Keying - Part 2, Module 2' is the second installment course for those who wish to learn and explore the advanced Professional Compositing Journey from core base to the High-End in a step-by-step manner. It covers all aspects of real world production tools, techniques, and pipelines used by major visual effects studios to create the Real.

In this Part 2 course module, we will explore the art and science of keying and compositing in greater detail and with greater practicality.

This Course is taught by Experience Professional Film Compositor, with having worked with Major High-end Award winning Hollywood Blockbuster. In addition, I am a Certified Artist by The Foundry and a seasoned freelancer too. You can check my film credits on the IMDb website or by searching my name on Google.

"Some of My Hollywood Blockbusters Film credit includes:"

This course "Guarantees" you of a comprehensive exploration and implementation of all aspects of Keying Methodology, ranging from the fundamentals to the most advanced techniques, presented in a step-by-step format. Additionally, a study reference guide, Gizmo plug-ins, and project resource files are included to facilitate further learning.

Who this course is for:

Beginners or Professionals who want to learn how to craft and apply High-End Nuke compositing to create Real
Peoples who want to explore and Implement every possible REAL WORLD Workflows in a step-by-step manner
Peoples who want learn how the Hollywood VFX Quality work is Reviewed & Done

Nuke Compositing Masterclass: Keying - Part 2, Module 2

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Course content

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