Getting Started with NUKE 6
In this series of lessons, we'll learn how to get started using The Foundry's compositing software NUKE. Software required: NUKE 6.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons, we'll learn how to get started using The Foundry's compositing software NUKE. Using NUKE we can composite and create visual effects using a node-based pipeline which allows us to keep our composition flexible and editable at any point. We'll begin this project by learning the basics of reading-in external images and learning the various parts of the NUKE user interface. Then we'll do some basic compositing, masking, transforming, and color correction. We'll finish with a project to composite a 3D render and write it out of NUKE into an image sequence. This series of lessons will cover the basic, everyday tools and techniques we use in NUKE to composite. With this basic overview of NUKE's workflows and tools, you will be able to begin using this powerful compositing software in your own production pipeline. Software required: NUKE 6.
Table of contents
- Visual Guide to Node-based Compositing 2m
- User Interface Basics and Reading Images into NUKE 10m
- Using the Merge Node to Composite Two Nodes Together 9m
- Using the Rotopaint Node to Mask the Effect of a Node 8m
- Using the Rotopaint Node to Clean up Footage Errors 9m
- Using the Transform Node to Move Nodes in NUKE 10m
- Basic Color Correction Using the Colorcorrect Node 15m
- Using Merge Operations to Composite a 3D Render 10m
- Rendering Images Out of NUKE 9m