Taught by Sean Devereaux, this new introductory course will expand upon
the Foundry Nuke tutorials produced by fxphd. Nuke version 5 software
will be available over the VPN to fxphd postgrads for non-commercial use
(OSX, Linux, and Windows versions). Devereaux has worked at Digital Domain,
ILM, RhinoFX and other facilities as a freelance artist, working on films
such as Transformers, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I, Robot,
Star Trek: Nemesis, and others. If you've viewed the Foundry DVDs, this
course will cover the software in much more detail and is a great next
step in learning the software.

Class 1: Where is that button that does that thing?
Overview of the window panes, the menu bar, toolbar and context menus.
Viewer specifics such as playback controls, disk cache, gain/gamma, etc.,
working with proxies and "down-rez" settings, customizing, saving and
restoring your layout, navigating the node graph. Adding nodes to the script
and manipulating their parameters. Connecting, disconnecting and reconnecting
nodes. Reading and writing images. Creation of a basic composite

Class 2 : Image Channels with a side Stereoscopic Compositing - buy your 3D
glasses now!
Reading image files and the 32-bit float pipeline, viewing your image channels,
shuffling image channels, troubleshooting image channels, setting up the views
you will need for a stereo workflow. Reading in stereo imagery, viewing all the
"eyes" separate and together, splitting a node's output to a specific view,
converting your comp into anaglyph and rendering stereo images, comping in stereo
and avoiding headaches.

Class 3: Motion sickness
2D Transform: position, rotation, scale, skew, motion blur. Animation curves and
controls, the tracker, stabilizing and match moving. Applying transformations to
other nodes. Motion blur: time blur, motion blur 2D and creating motion vectors

Class 4: Awesome keyers and good old fashioned rotoscoping
Roto tools: bezier, rectangle, radial, ramp. Creating and animating your shapes.
Introduction to the Keyer

Class 5: SUPER awesome keyers
Primatte and the IBK (Image Based Keyer). Combining mattes and using mattes to
effect a node's output.

Class 6: Color by number
The best color tools and other ones, too. Color matching, suppression, fine-tuning,
and plate grading.

Class 7: Introduction to 3D Goodness (Part 1 of 2)
The camera, creating geometry and applying textures/images, modifying the geometry.
Connecting to the 2D tree.

Class 8: Introduction to 3D Goodness (Part 2 of 2)
Projections, pan and tile, real magical motion blur, script optimization.

Class 9: In Production
We will put everything we learned this term to the test and focus on a production
project. Great for learning and your reel!

Class 10: In Production and YOU!
Finessing the production shot with time left over for direct answers to your
questions from the forums. There will be an announcement in the forums a couple weeks
prior to when question submissions for the class will be due.

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