cmiVFX - Nuke Color Masterclass
cmiVFX - Nuke Color Masterclass
English | MP4 H.264 | 1024 x 576 | 6 hr.57 min | + Exercise files | 2,3 GB
Genre: eLearning

Chapters Breakdown


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.

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