Learn Nuke NK101 Lesson 1 Project Files
Learn Digital Compositing in Nuke NK101 is a comprehensive introductory course to compositing in Nuke / NukeX. You you will learn the fundamentals of compositing while also learning Nuke.
This is the written course notes and the project files for Lesson 1 of Learn Digital Compositing in Nuke. The training videos are completely Free on YouTube! If you find the videos useful, I ask that you consider paying for the project files to help support the channel. I want the basic training to be accessible to everyone. You can name your own price.
Here is the playlist for all 10 of the Lesson 1 videos available for FREE on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrHCXF82iDlRp8xHrKwnwKBzbpVnEZMAk
Lesson 1 covers compositing fundamentals and the basics of the user interface of Nuke so you can move on to more advanced concepts. Watch the videos and decide if you want to get the project files so you can do the assignment.
The course notes PDF is a 7 page written crash course on the same basic compositing concepts covered in the first video few videos of Lesson 1 for people who have a different learning style. It also contains a list of books for the recommended reading. For each lesson I recommend the chapters you should read to stay in sync with the course. The reading will give you more of a deep dive into the fine points of the technical side of compositing than is possible in the videos. The course was designed with the assumption it would be used by serious students who would be doing the reading. If you are serious about advancing as a compositor professionally I strongly recommend you do the suggested reading. Speaking from my own experience and the experience of many student journeys I have witnessed I can say with a high level of confidence that getting a handle on the fine points of compositing at a technical level will help you advance more quickly. The best time to do this study is when you are working on relevant projects. It helps reinforce the concepts presented in the books by connecting them to real-world problem solving in the project.
The project file is a simple Nuke template and images so you can follow along on the assignment. Lesson 1 is a very simple project. Subsequent lessons are more complex but you need to start somewhere, right?
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Learn Digital Compositing in Nuke NK101 Lesson 1: Course Notes PDF, Nuke Project Template and simple images, example script with parented and concatenated image transform nodes.