A step-by-step guide to transitioning your visual effects compositing skills from After Effects to Nuke.
Free tutorial
17,448 students
1hr 14min of on-demand video
Created by Vicki Lau
English
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Current priceFree
What you’ll learn
- Know what, when and how to navigate and use basic nodes in Nuke
- Understand the functional differences between After Effects and Nuke
- Translate compositing skills from After Effects to do compositing with industry software Nuke
Requirements
- Passion and Good Follow-Through
- Adobe After Effects CC
- The Foundry Nuke (non-commercial/ commercial version)
Description
If you want to learn how to use industry-standard software, Nuke, to create fancy visual effects (VFX) shots, but you don’t even know how to bring in your files – then you’re looking at the right course. This beginner course will help you get a head start with Nuke’s interface or even help you transition your compositing skills from After Effects – either way, you are introduced to the intimate details of Nuke.
Learn that Other Compositing Tool to Grow as a VFX Artist.
Learn by working through a revamped version of our very own Filmtorial® where we work on a commissioned piece of art for David from Prometheus (2012).
Why This Course?
- Taught by a real professional in the visual effects and film industry who worked on actual Hollywood blockbusters
- Step-by-step guide with a practical and hands-on mini project to work on
- In-depth exploration into the differences and similarities across the two software
- Networking and open collaboration opportunities with instructor and students
- Participate in a new e-learning movement and style of learning by being a part of a story as student characters
Empower yourself by picking up the tool used by 80% of the Visual Effects Industry.
You will Learn How:
- To use the Nuke interface from scratch
- To use and apply basic nodes and effects from After Effects in Nuke
- To comfortably prepare work files, composite and render your work in Nuke
The best part of it all – this course is utterly and ridiculously FREE.
Who this course is for:
- Film students and graduates interested in visual effects post-production
- Students who want to transition from After Effects compositing to node-based compositing software Nuke
- NOT for existing advanced or seasoned Nuke users
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Course content
4 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 17m total lengthCollapse all sections
After Effects to Nuke Basics3 lectures • 8min
- Who am I and Who are you?01:49
- The 5Ws and 1H of Nuke04:05
- Nuke Software02:26
- After Effects to Nuke Basics3 questions
After Effects to Nuke Practices8 lectures • 57min
- Interface Basics10:32
- Structure: Layers to Nodes10:45
- Work Space: Hierarchy to Web06:04
- VFX: Effects Panel to Node Types04:32
- VFX: Basic Effects to Basic Nodes07:10
- Organization: Precomps to Backdrops08:44
- Export: Render Queue to Write Node08:22
- SHOT TRYOUT: Nuke this!01:13
- SHOT TRYOUT3 questions
After Effects to Nuke Summary4 lectures • 8min
- Nuke Best Practices for the Beginner02:09
- The War between After Effects & Nuke03:21
- The Thing about Nuke01:57
- Moving from Beginner to Nuke Artist00:33
- After Effects to Nuke Summary3 questions
BONUS1 lecture • 4min
- Bonus Lecture03:42
