Homework 1 -- Basics of Compositing.

Read chapters 1 and 2 in Brinkmann.

Read chapter 1 in Ganbar and follow-along with Nuke open, exploring as you go.

Read chapter 2 in Ganbar and complete the simple composite. (See directions in the first few pages of the book for visiting PeachPit’s website, registering, and downloading the assets from the “bonus material.”

Read chapter 3 in Ganbar and complete the slightly more advanced composite. (Pay attention to purpose behind different parts and also the differences relative to “shuffle” and “shufflecopy” in Nuke.) Pay attention to cropping for a bounding box for efficiency, use of AOVs, motion blur, and Z defocus, … all the layers coming together to add visual details to help the composite look more as if actually photographed.

Ensure that you setup relative path names in Nuke as you work (Setup the project folder under edit–>project settings and then avoid full file paths in Read nodes). Upload each .nk file, a screen cap (or more later when needed to see nodes well) of your process tree, and the final rendered image or movie for the comp. For output on movie files, compress as an h.264 mov file at whatever resolution the project was completed.

Important, also: Do not upload book media used to complete the chapters, but if you use additional assets for your work beyond the basic objectives, ensure that all files needed for the comp to render are present. Use a logical folder structure – one for each comp and within it an assets and render folder.

Upload to Canvas in one tgz or zip file named with your last name and homework 01, such as NAME_H1.zip or NAME_H1.tgz.

Due January 27.