Arnold and Nuke – Light and Compositing a 3d Cinematic Shot

Arnold and Nuke – Light and Compositing a 3d Cinematic Shot, available at $34.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 25 lectures, based on 76 reviews, and has 444 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn how to light and composite a 3d shot using Arnold render and Nuke by applying the techniques used by large VFX studios such as deep compositing, 2d motion blur and multilight compositing and light groups. All the Maya assets and EXRs renders are provided in order to follow the lessons and create your own custom version of the shot for your demo reel. 3D Lighting This course is ideal for individuals who are Animation and Visual Effects students who are looking for professional experience in a large vfx studio or Animation amateurs that want to make their project look better without spending in high computing power or Professional lighting artist that want to learn compositing techniques or Compositors that new to improve their workflows using render AOVs It is particularly useful for Animation and Visual Effects students who are looking for professional experience in a large vfx studio or Animation amateurs that want to make their project look better without spending in high computing power or Professional lighting artist that want to learn compositing techniques or Compositors that new to improve their workflows using render AOVs.

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Summary

Title: Arnold and Nuke – Light and Compositing a 3d Cinematic Shot

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 4.3

Number of Lectures: 25

Number of Published Lectures: 25

Number of Curriculum Items: 25

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 25

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn how to light and composite a 3d shot using Arnold render and Nuke by applying the techniques used by large VFX studios such as deep compositing, 2d motion blur and multilight compositing and light groups.
All the Maya assets and EXRs renders are provided in order to follow the lessons and create your own custom version of the shot for your demo reel.
3D Lighting

Who Should Attend

Animation and Visual Effects students who are looking for professional experience in a large vfx studio
Animation amateurs that want to make their project look better without spending in high computing power
Professional lighting artist that want to learn compositing techniques
Compositors that new to improve their workflows using render AOVs

Target Audiences

Animation and Visual Effects students who are looking for professional experience in a large vfx studio
Animation amateurs that want to make their project look better without spending in high computing power
Professional lighting artist that want to learn compositing techniques
Compositors that new to improve their workflows using render AOVs

In this course I will show you how to light and composite a real production shot in Arnold render and Nuke. You will learn the techniques used in the large VFX studios for rendering and composite high quality images for film and video game cinematics. You also will be able to create a custom version of the scene because I will provide you with the necessary assets and techniques to create you version of the shots in order to add it to your demo reel or portfolio.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Maya source files structure

Lecture 3: Importing the Alembics to Maya

Lecture 4: Applying the materials

Chapter 2: Lighting in Arnold render

Lecture 1: Lighting chapter introduction

Lecture 2: Preparing the scene for lighting

Lecture 3: Creating the basic light rig

Lecture 4: Second light Pass using Maya's spotlights

Lecture 5: Third light pass by creating additional rim lights

Lecture 6: Final light pass, small light improvements

Lecture 7: lighting adjustments to the environment

Lecture 8: Setting up Arnold render AOVs

Lecture 9: Multilight setup using Arnold render light groups

Lecture 10: Setting up the render layers in Maya

Lecture 11: Lighting chapter conclusions

Chapter 3: Compositing in Nuke

Lecture 1: Compositing introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up multilights in Nuke

Lecture 3: Setting up the mood of the scene using multilights and Nuke's color grading

Lecture 4: Finalizing the mood setup using the multilight setup in Nuke

Lecture 5: Using Arnold's UV AOVs for masking in Nuke

Lecture 6: Using Nuke's relight node for masking

Lecture 7: Creating depth of field using Arnold's deep data and Nuke's Deep recolor node

Lecture 8: Adding motion blur using motion vectors

Lecture 9: Final compositing adjustments

Lecture 10: Composition chapter conclusions

Instructors

Cesar Macias
Lighting artist and compositor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes
2 stars: 2 votes
3 stars: 8 votes
4 stars: 26 votes
5 stars: 38 votes

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