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Learn what VFX compositing is, how it fits into the post-production pipeline, and how multiple visual elements are combined to create a seamless final shot.
Explore Nuke’s interface, Viewer, Node Graph, Properties panel, timeline and essential workspace tools used throughout professional compositing projects.
Learn how Nuke’s node-based system works and how images, effects, masks, transformations and corrections are connected to build flexible composites.
Develop clean node-tree habits using logical connections, organization, naming and structured workflows that make complex composites easier to manage.
Work with essential Nuke nodes for reading footage, transforming images, adjusting visuals, managing channels and constructing basic composites.
Learn how resolution, image formats and bounding boxes affect processing, performance and the accuracy of your final composite.
Explore red, green, blue and alpha channels and understand how channel information is stored and manipulated throughout a composite.
Learn how the Merge node combines foreground and background elements and understand the correct setup for building layered composites.
Explore operations such as over, plus, multiply, screen and other mathematical relationships used when combining image elements.
Learn how alpha information controls transparency and why accurate alpha channels are essential for clean edges and believable composites.
Understand premultiplication and learn when to premultiply or unpremultiply footage to prevent unwanted dark edges and color contamination.
Learn how to reposition, rotate, scale and reformat visual elements while maintaining image quality and correct alignment.
Use basic color correction techniques to balance exposure, contrast and color before integrating multiple elements into the same shot.
Combine several image elements using transformations, merges, masks, alpha channels and color adjustments to create a complete composite.
Bring together node organization, channel management, merge operations and technical practices to build cleaner and more efficient Nuke scripts.
Learn how rotoscoping is used to isolate people, objects and areas of a shot by creating accurate animated masks.
Understand shape creation, control points, feathering and mask organization to produce clean mattes around complex subjects.
Learn how to animate roto shapes efficiently while maintaining accurate edges, proportions and movement throughout a shot.
Handle challenging roto shots involving motion blur, overlapping objects, changing silhouettes and complex subject movement.
Refine roto mattes by reproducing natural motion blur, soft edges and subtle edge characteristics found in the original footage.
Learn how Nuke’s Rotopaint tools can remove unwanted objects, repair image areas and create controlled paint corrections.
Build clean background plates by reconstructing areas hidden by actors, props, equipment or unwanted elements.
Learn how to track identifiable points in footage and use the resulting motion data to attach or stabilize visual elements.
Learn how to select reliable tracking features and correct problematic tracks when dealing with blur, lighting changes or partial obstruction.
Track flat surfaces and perspective changes so graphics and replacement elements can follow the original movement accurately.
Use tracking information to stabilize footage, perform corrections and then restore the original motion for seamless integration.
Replace screen content while maintaining perspective, movement, reflections, brightness and the visual characteristics of the original display.
Use tracking, transformations and perspective adjustments to ensure replacement graphics remain correctly positioned throughout the shot.
Recreate subtle reflections, brightness, edge softness, color spill and glow so replacement screens feel naturally photographed.
Combine rotoscoping, clean plates, tracking and paint techniques to solve a complete professional cleanup or screen-replacement shot.
Learn how Nuke’s 3D workspace allows cameras, cards, geometry, lights and images to be combined within a three-dimensional scene.
Understand essential 3D nodes and how they connect to create, transform, view and render elements inside Nuke’s 3D space.
Learn how cards and geometry can hold projected imagery and be positioned in 3D space to create depth and perspective.
Transform 2D images into layered environments by distributing elements across depth and viewing them through a virtual camera.
Use camera movement and layered geometry to generate realistic parallax and transform static artwork into dynamic environmental shots.
Learn how Nuke analyzes live-action footage to reconstruct camera movement and create a virtual camera matching the original shot.
Improve camera solves by analyzing tracking points, removing inaccurate features and refining the reconstructed camera movement.
Learn how proxy geometry can be positioned and aligned with objects in live-action footage to establish accurate perspective and spatial relationships.
Project images through virtual cameras onto geometry to rebuild environments, extend sets and create controlled camera movement.
Combine reconstructed imagery, geometry and camera projection to create clean plates for shots where conventional paint techniques are insufficient.
Reconstruct backgrounds hidden by large foreground objects and integrate the repaired areas with the original camera movement.
Replace existing skies while matching perspective, exposure, edge detail, atmospheric conditions and overall scene lighting.
Modify or replace environmental elements to transform the location, mood and visual scale of a live-action shot.
Combine matte-painted environments with tracked footage using projections, masks, color matching and atmospheric integration.
Bring tracking, projections, geometry, matte painting and environment techniques together to produce a polished cinematic environment extension.
Learn why CG renders are separated into multiple passes and how these passes provide greater control over the final composite.
Understand how individual render components can be recombined to recreate and then creatively adjust the original beauty render.
Explore utility passes and technical mattes that allow specific surfaces, objects and properties to be isolated during compositing.
Use mattes to target individual CG elements for precise color, lighting, material and effects adjustments without affecting the entire render.
Learn how to match exposure, contrast, color, sharpness and other photographic qualities between computer-generated elements and live footage.
Refine tonal relationships so rendered objects share the same lighting range and photographic response as the original plate.
Reproduce lens softness, depth of field, grain and other camera characteristics that help CG elements feel naturally photographed.
Add light interaction between CG elements and their surroundings so objects appear to genuinely influence the live-action environment.
Build reflections that respond correctly to surface orientation, perspective, lighting and material properties within the scene.
Learn how glass and other transparent materials distort backgrounds and how to reproduce these effects during compositing.
Composite dust, sparks, debris and other particle elements while matching perspective, depth, motion and lighting.
Use atmospheric elements to create depth separation, enhance scale and connect CG objects more naturally with their environments.
Control foreground, midground and background relationships so particles, CG and live-action elements interact correctly within the scene.
Use color, grain, blur, lighting and atmospheric treatment to remove visual differences between rendered and photographed elements.
Combine render passes, technical mattes, lighting, reflections, atmosphere and image matching to create a polished CG integration shot.
Learn how professional keying workflows isolate subjects from green or blue screens while preserving fine details and natural edges.
Develop techniques for extracting difficult hair, transparent areas, motion blur and other fine details without creating harsh edges.
Learn why complex shots often require separate keys for different areas and how those mattes are combined into a stronger final extraction.
Remove unwanted green or blue contamination while maintaining believable skin tones, clothing colors and reflective surfaces.
Repair contaminated or damaged foreground edges to create more natural transitions between keyed subjects and replacement backgrounds.
Match perspective, scale, color, lighting, focus and atmosphere so extracted subjects belong naturally within their new surroundings.
Use advanced color adjustments to balance elements, direct viewer attention and create consistent visual relationships throughout a composite.
Analyze brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature and tonal range to make separately sourced elements appear captured together.
Transform daytime footage into believable night scenes through controlled exposure, color, sky treatment and localized lighting adjustments.
Introduce windows, streetlights, lamps and other motivated light sources to make transformed nighttime environments more convincing.
Use masks, gradients and tracked corrections to reshape existing lighting and create additional depth without rebuilding the scene in 3D.
Combine 3D information and compositing techniques to create lighting adjustments that respond more naturally to scene geometry.
Combine grading, lighting, atmospheric effects and depth treatments to enhance the emotional and cinematic quality of a shot.
Learn how color palettes, contrast, lighting, atmosphere and image treatment can establish a unified visual style across multiple shots.
Combine keying, tracking, roto, CG integration, grading, relighting and finishing techniques to transform raw footage into a polished professional VFX shot.
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