This class is for people already familiar with Nuke, so you must be able to, at least, basically run Nuke, know its interface and a minimum of compositing fundamentals. This video is not designed to teach basic Nuke principles, (Everyone knows there are too many of those already), but it ill teach the topics found no where else! (Until the other training companies watch it of course!)
Short Description
This Master Class is all about how to demystify color concepts, physics of light, elements of optics, digital color representation, maths behind color operations and, of course, how to process all this information for artistic purposes.
| Date Released | • | 01/12/2012 |
| Duration | • | 05.04.25 |
| Artist | • | Chris Maynard |
| Artist | • | Juan Madrigal |
| Artist | • | Victor Perez |
| PM | • | Chris Maynard |
| Producer | • | cmiVFX |
| Chapters | • | 6 |
Chapters Breakdown
PART 1 VIDEO: 5 Hours
Chapter 1: Optics
• What is Light?
• Visible Spectrum
• Color Synthesis
• How Human Eye Perceives Color
• Image Capture Devices
• Analog Vs. Digital Process
• Color Compression
Chapter 2: Elements of Digital Color Manipulation
• Color Bit Depth
• 8-Bit, Float and Half-Float
• Cartesian Axis Representation: Lookup Tables
• Normalized Values
• Brief History of File Formats: From Cineon to OpenEXR
• Linear vs Log
• Nuke™ 32-Bit per Channel Linear Workspace
• Color Space Standards (sRGB, Rec. 601 & Rec. 709)
• LUTs & Input Process
• Color Temperature / Tint
• CIE Standard Illuminant D65
• Color Analysis Instruments in Nuke
Chapter 3: Color Correction Maths
• Understanding Premultiplied and Unpremultiplied states
• Exploring Nuclear Operators
• Understanding the Color Wheel/Cube and TMI, HSV, RGB Sliders
• The Order of Operations in Color Tools
• Maths by Knobs (Black Point, White Point, Lift, Gain, Multiply, Offset, Gamma, Saturation, Contrast)
• Ranges (Shadows, Midtones, Hightlights)
• ColorLookup
• Color Matching by Curves
• Despill and Color Suppressions
• Exposure (Analogical Simulator)
• Log2Lin (and PLogtoLin)
• Colorspace
• LUT Tools (Truelight, CMSTestPattern, GenerateLUT, VectorField)
• Merge Operations
Chapters Breakdown 2
PART 2 VIDEO: 3 Hours (This is the second video)
Chapter 4: Case Studies
Greenscreen, Bluescreen and Redscreen Comparison: Outdoor Lamborghini (I)
Despilling and Relighting a Greenscreen: Outdoor Lamborghini (II)
Grading CG for Integration: 40 Years (I)
Matching Greenscreen Elements to Background Plates: Indoor Lamborghini (III)
Applying Light Qualities to Composite Elements: 40 Years (II)
Color FXs: Leopard (I)
About Victor Perez
Victor Perez is a senior visual effects artist with over 10 years of production experience in computer graphics, digital grading and visual effects along different continents. He is also a Nuke™ Official Certified Trainer by The Foundry®.
As a senior digital compositing artist and 2D Technical Director he has a fine combination of both artistic and technical understanding of film postproduction and visual effects. Usual collaborator of Nukepedia, Victor has worked and researched with Oscar® winner studios such as Double Negative, Cinesite and Passion Pictures. His film credits include John Carter (Dir. Andrew Stanton, 2012), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Dir. Rob Marshall, 2011), Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows: Part I (Dir. David Yates, 2010), Haywire (Dir. Stephen Soderbergh, 2011), 127 Hours (Dir. Danny Boyle, 2010), and many others.
Project Contents
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