Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects, 2/e (Paperback)

This start-to-finish, complete guide to Nuke will give you the foundations on the state-of-the-art visual effects software used by professionals in the film and television industries. Along with the hard-won advice and techniques from expert compositor and teacher Ron Ganbar, each chapter covers a complete lesson in the fundamentals, with step-by-step instructions included so you can easily follow along and start using the program right away. The projects used throughout the book are based on real-world examples of professional productions and project files are included with each chapter so you can work through all the examples.

After discovering how to use the tools and understanding the compositing workflow, you’ll learn about basic and advanced compositing techniques, color correction, RotoPaint, keying, and tracking, as well as more advanced topics such as CGI and the 3D engine. In addition, you’ll learn about:

• Working with nodes and process trees

• Using CGI passes in Nuke to control 3D render looks

• Camera Tracking techniques to combine 2D and 3D elements

• Camera Projection to turn a single frame into moving images

• Gizmos and all about creating your own tools in Nuke

• Stereoscopic compositing

 Ron Ganbar has been a compositor since 1996 and visual effects instructor since 2001. He currently works on a variety of projects as a gun for hire as compositor, consultant, VFX supervisor, and trainer. Ron was made a “Teacher’s Trainer” by Apple for Shake in 2005 and has written, taught, and evaluated courses for the National Film and Television School, Apple, Peachpit Press, Westminster University, and others.

"As both a talented compositor (with years of in-the-trenches experience) and an excellent teacher, Ron Ganbar has the unique ability to make even the most difficult concepts crystal clear. If you want to get up and running with Nuke as quickly as possible then start by buying this book!" —Ron Brinkmann, author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing

這本由頭到尾的完整指南將帶給您關於Nuke的基礎知識，Nuke是專業電影和電視行業中使用的最先進的視覺效果軟體。除了專業合成師和教師Ron Ganbar的寶貴建議和技巧外，每一章都涵蓋了基礎知識的完整課程，並提供了逐步指示，讓您可以輕鬆跟隨並立即開始使用該軟體。本書中使用的專案基於真實世界的專業製作示例，每一章都附有專案檔案，讓您可以完成所有的示例。

在了解如何使用工具和理解合成工作流程之後，您將學習基本和高級合成技巧、色彩校正、RotoPaint、鍵控和追蹤，以及更高級的主題，如CGI和3D引擎。此外，您還將學習以下內容：

• 使用節點和處理樹

• 在Nuke中使用CGI通道來控制3D渲染效果

• 相機追蹤技術，將2D和3D元素結合

• 相機投影，將單幀轉換為動態影像

• Gizmos和創建自己在Nuke中的工具的相關知識

• 立體合成

Ron Ganbar自1996年以來一直是一名合成師，自2001年起擔任視覺效果教師。他目前作為合成師、顧問、視覺效果監製和培訓師參與各種項目。Ron於2005年被蘋果公司任命為Shake的「教師培訓師」，並為國家電影和電視學院、蘋果、Peachpit Press、威斯敏斯特大學等機構撰寫、教授和評估課程。

「Ron Ganbar既是一位才華橫溢的合成師（擁有多年實戰經驗），也是一位優秀的教師，他獨特的能力使得即使是最困難的概念也變得清晰易懂。如果您想要盡快上手使用Nuke，那麼請從購買這本書開始！」——Ron Brinkmann，《數位合成的藝術與科學》作者