Course Description

Taught by Ganz Ramalingam, This Legendary course has been taught to well over 100 students who have gone on to work on many major motion pictures. For students at Lost Boys, this course marks the beginning of their journey to becoming a Compositor at a Visual Effects Studio.

This course is all about learning how to replicate Photographic Reality. This new introductory course which is offered to the public for the first time ever, will teach you how to take a project from concept to completion, while covering a whirlwind of topics that are essential to creating convincing composites.

You will learn how to setup a shot in nuke, undistort the plate, 3D camera track the scene, set up a 3D Composite with projections, colour correct sign elements, redistort elements, roto-mask a foreground actor, deal with motion blur, add camera artifacts, paintout details, add camera noise and output your work for feedback or Dailies.

Successful completion requires creativity, discipline and a solid grasp of the topics covered in the course.

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Setup

  • 2

    Lens Distortion

    • Nuke 10's LensDistortion node in Nuke 11

    • Creating a Loose Matte

    • Calculating Lens Distortion - Image Analysis

    • Questions?
  • 3

    Camera Tracking

    • Setting Up Nuke's Camera Tracker

    • Solving & Refining the Camera Track

    • Creating a 3D Scene Based on Your Camera Track

    • Questions?
  • 4

    Camera Projection

    • Creating a Card

    • Placing a 2D Texture

    • Setting Up the Camera Projection

    • Questions?
  • 5

    Colour Correction

    • Unpremult Before Colour Correction & KeyMix

    • Using Ramps

    • Light Direction

    • Applying a Basic Colour Correction - Individual Channels

    • Creating a Matte - Keyer & Channel Merge

    • Applying a Basic Colour Correction - Sampling Pixels

    • Shadows - Roto & Feather

    • Questions?
  • 6

    Redistortion

    • Adding Distortion to ScanlineRender's Ouput

    • Questions?
  • 7

    Foreground Matte

    • Setting Up the Roto Node

    • Drawing a Bezier Shape

    • Adding Shapes for a More Detailed Matte

    • Frame by Frame Rotoscope vs Keyframes

    • Moving Points vs Moving Shapes

    • Roto Conforms to the Project's Full Size Format

    • Reformatting Roto Shapes

    • Questions?
  • 8

    Motion Blur

    • Motion Blur

    • Problems with Regular Motion Blur and How to fix them - Edge Extend & AddMix

    • AddMix Node Expects Unpremultiplied Input

    • Roto Lifetime

    • Adding Motion Blur to Sign - ScanlineRender Multisample / Vector Blur

    • Questions?
  • 9

    Camera Artifacts

    • Camera Artifacts & Chromatic Aberration

    • Creating a Chromatic Aberration Control

    • Breaking Up the Chromatic Aberration

    • Questions?
  • 10

    Paintouts

    • Picking a Frame for Paintouts, Denoising the Plate and a Brief Look at Vector Based Painting

    • Problem with Cloning Pixels

    • A Better Approach to RotoPainting

    • Always Check the Alpha Channel

    • Projecting the Paintout

    • Questions?
  • 11

    Camera Noise

    • Adding Noise

    • Questions?
  • 12

    Writing Out

    • Writing Out an Image Sequence / Quicktime Movie

    • Questions?
  • 13

    Your Questions - Answered!

    • Difference between Shuffle and ShuffleCopy

    • Projections VS Textures 1

    • Projections VS Textures 2

    • Merging Original Roto with DirBlur Roto

    • Merging Two DirBlur Rotos

    • Link Output and Clones (CameraTracker and Cameras)

    • RotoPaint - Brush Stroke Duplicate and Clone Distance

    • Create a more Realistic Sign

    • Alpha Explained

    • Convert Gizmos to Groups

    • Drawing Mattes on the Right Frame

    • What is a Constant
  • 14

    Reviews

    • Drew Higgs - Review 001

    • Vitor Libardi - Review 001

    • Carlos García - Review 001

    • Dan McIntyre - Review 001

    • Veronica Del Rosario - Review 001

    • Hillary Huong Vu - Review 001

    • Hillary Huong Vu - Review 002

    • Tanmay - Review 001

    • David Koss - Review 001

    • Ivan Rickard - Review 001

    • Jóhann Sveinsson - Review 001

Reviews

5 star rating

Solid Course

David Koss

I think this course is a great intro to the general workflow of a Nuke project. Being able to download all the course content and follow along is very helpfu...

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I think this course is a great intro to the general workflow of a Nuke project. Being able to download all the course content and follow along is very helpful since it lets you compare your script to the one Ganz is working on. I felt that the concepts and methods taught in the course were thoroughly explained, and I feel that I was able to learn a great deal. In my opinion, one of the beast things about this course, was the section where student scripts were reviewed. I found that in this section, many of the smaller questions I had were answered before I had to ask them, and lots of minor mistakes I had made (or would have made) were pointed out. Ganz seemed very knowledgeable when it came to explaining these types of things in the script reviews. It was also really interesting to see how other students built their scripts. Overall I was happy with the contents in this course, and I feel that it was responsible for getting me past Nuke's learning curve. I would recommend the "introduction to Compositing" course to anyone new to the Nuke workflow.

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5 star rating

Awesome learning

Vitor Libardi

I would like to recommend the Introduction to Compositing course from Ganz. I took this course when I had very little experience with Nuke and was able to co...

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I would like to recommend the Introduction to Compositing course from Ganz. I took this course when I had very little experience with Nuke and was able to complete it successfully. The course helped me understand better some basic operations as well as some advanced stuff like camera tracking and chromatic aberration. Ganz is very knowledgeable, with a lot of experience in the industry and is always happy to help me when I need.

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