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WEBINAR

What’s So Hot About Nuke?


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ON-DEMAND - ONLY $25
Includes an HD version of the webinar, source files (to practice along with Steve) and audio podcast with Steve Wright answering questions not answered during the webinar. Yours to keep forever (but not to share with others).


DESCRIPTION

You’ve heard about Nuke and how it is taking the visual effects industry by storm. You’ve heard that Nuke site licenses have been purchased by such VFX power hitters as ILM and Weta Digital. But what is it exactly that makes Nuke so much more powerful than any other compositing programs?

In this webinar Steve Wright will lift the hood of Nuke and reveal those unique features that make it the power-on winner in the VFX community. This is NOT a sales presentation designed to get you to buy Nuke, but a hands-on revelation of the production power of Nuke by a senior production artist. Attend this one-hour webinar and you will find out exactly What’s so Hot About Nuke!


AGENDA

  1. Linear lightspace.
  2. High dynamic range (HDR) images.
  3. The precision of 32 bit float.
  4. Nuke’s 3D world.
  5. The power of 3D compositing.
  6. Doing more 3D in 2D.
  7. Three amazing keyers.
  8. Spectacular color correction.
  9. A thousand channels.
  10. Compositing log images made easy.
  11. Multi-pass cgi compositing.
  12. How Nuke integrates with 3D production.
  13. Faster more efficient VFX production pipelines.


DURATION

90 Minutes


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

VFX artists, Compositors, 3D Animators, VFX Producers, VFX Supervisors, Production Managers, VFX Pipeline Developers


PREREQUISITE

None


PRESENTER

Steve Wright
Steve Wright is a Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and a senior industry veteran in visual effects compositing with over 20 years of production experience. He has over 70 film credits such as "Night at the Museum 2", "Shutter Island", "Solaris", "Traffic", "U-571", "Air Force One", "Hart's War" and many more.

Steve has also created the visual effects for 70 broadcast television commercials and is now a master trainer traveling around the world conducting VFX compositing training for major visual effects studios using Shake and Nuke. Steve also produces training programs and conducts classes and workshops both online and location based.

He has published two books on this fascinating subject and is a member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) and the Digital Cinema Society (DCS).

MODERATOR

Marcelo Lewin
Marcelo Lewin is the CEO and founder of NewMediaWebinars.com, which creates webinars for and by digital media creators. Previously, he founded and was the CEO of Pixel Heads Network, a company that produced audio and video podcast shows focused on digital media creators. Pixel Heads Network was acquired by ProMAX Systems in 2008. In 1999, he created My Internet Desktop, an "OS on the web" company, way ahead of its time, it was acquired by Internet Appliance Network in 2000.

He is also the host of The Digital Scene, a web show where he interviews digital media creators and industry insiders in various expos, meet-ups and events.

Having also worked for a variety of companies, from Walt Disney Imagineering to NBC to Toyota, he is always on the forefront of interactive media, digital filmmaking and new media projects.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

"I found your website wonderfull and I had to buy the Nuke Webinar!" - Stefan


"Thanks for the great webinar. I always enjoy your webinars." - Javier


"Thanks for the webinar. Great info for those new to cmpositing and Nuke such as myself." - @TheRedOwl


"Thanks for the awesome webinar. Can't wait for the Nuke X one!" - Mike


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