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Digital Compositing with Nuke

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Digital Compositing with Nuke by Lee Lanier provides a comprehensive guide to mastering Nuke, a powerful compositing software. Suitable for both beginners and experienced users transitioning from After Effects or Shake, this book covers software-specific functions alongside essential compositing theory such as 2.5D and stereoscopic 3D techniques. Through tutorial-based learning enhanced by downloadable video footage and image files, readers can quickly develop practical skills. The book is richly illustrated with over 300 full-colour images and includes industry insights and real-world case studies.
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This book is ideal for artists, animators, and video professionals eager to learn or deepen their understanding of digital compositing using Nuke. It's especially valuable for those seeking practical, hands-on tutorials combined with theoretical foundations in visual effects and compositing workflows.

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For novice compositors and veterans moving over from Shake or After Effects, this book is the essential guide for learning Nuke, the powerful, node-based compositing software and standard choice for the VFX industry. It provides a complete overview of the Nuke software, from an introduction to the user interface to more complex compositing tasks.

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Whether you're a novice compositor or a well-versed one moving over from After Effects or Shake, this is the book for you to learn the ins and outs of the powerful compositing software, Nuke. In addition to covering all of the menus, buttons, and other software-specific topics, it also offers critical lessons in compositing theory, including working in 2.5D and stereoscopic 3D.

Through a tutorial-based approach, augmented by video footage and image files provided on the downloadable resources, this book will have you up and running in Nuke in just hours. The book features over 300 4-colour images, industry insider sidebars, as well as an entire chapter dedicated to real-world Nuke case studies.

The downloadable resources files are available at Focal Press.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780240820354

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 July 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Focal Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 670g

Pages: 360

About the Author

visual effects/animation veteran of over 20 years. Formerly a senior animator at PDI/Dreamworks for Antz and the original Shrek, his other credits include Ace Ventura, James and the Giant Peach, and Escape from LA. Over the last decade, he has taught at several Academy of Art Universities as well as the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

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