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WEBINAR

What’s So Hot About Nuke?


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 free 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.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

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


PREREQUISITE

None


PRESENTER(S)

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 his Shake training videos are available on Lynda.com. He is a member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) and the Digital Cinema Society (DCS). Learn more about Steve at IMDB or at his site

MODERATOR(S)

Marcelo Lewin
 Marcelo Lewin is the CEO and founder of Center For New Media Studies, which owns NewMediaWebinars.com and CNMS TV. Previously, he founded and was the CEO of Pixel Heads Network, which was acquired by ProMAX Systems in 2008. In 1999, he created My Internet Desktop, which was acquired by Internet Appliance Network in 2000. Having worked with a variety of companies, from Walt Disney Imagineering to NBC to Toyota, he is always on the forefront of interactive media and new media projects.

DURATION

90 Minutes


COST

Free


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