Ve Lesson 04 : Nuke Interface
Tutor notes
4. DAILIES AND PRESENTATION
Get your students to present their work often to their peer group and even others and be questioned by someone in a manager/client role. Get them to justify their approach and thinking behind it. Beware of smooth talking salesmen.
3. SET LIMITATIONS
3.LIMITATIONS : A Vast array of choice can sometimes deadened for creativity. Ensuring students learn through invention based on small number of options in the face of limitation is an useful tactic, rather than emphasising what each menu heading does and the sheer number of options available.
2. SHORTCUTS AND TEMPLATES
Tutors can accelerate learning by demonstrating setting optimum shortcuts and useful templates, explaining standard processes to make things look good and outlining elements that affects pipeline.
1. FIRST STEPS
SELF DIRECTED
Digital Tutors - Introduction to Maya 2014
PRE-LOAD
Pre-load is given students days or a week prior to the lesson if possible so they can study it at home before they come to class so they wouldn't start with a blank slate in your class.
SUGGESTED CO-REQUISITES
None
SUGGESTED PRE-REQUISITES
Watch and take notes on the colour management tutorial videos located on the foundry website
Requisite taken from different lessons
RESOURCES
references
The Foundry
HDRI tips and tricks
What is Hdri
work files
5. LEARNING ACTIVITIES : Demos, playing with files, exercises in class, solve problematic shot or swap work with VFX students
Group 5
Group 4
Group 3
Group 2
Group 1
4. OUTLINE CONTENT/TOPIC : outline the plan for that day's class, points to go over, important demos etc.
This Lesson will be an interactive practical decision. We will introduce key concepts on how to film for VFX.
In groups you will be given a scenario on a flash card. Each group will then
We will discuss students previous experiences whilst obtaining footage for VFX shots
3 .LEARNING OUTCOMES: On completion students will be able to demonstrate
Practical elements that show the student has negotiated
issues of modifying, cleaning up or packaging imagery or
data professionally
An understanding of techniques for shooting a correctly
exposed screen.
A first hand experience of a shoot,
That they can recognise key issues regarding creating
images and data and how VFX personnel might be involved
in the early stages of such creation.
2. AIMS : This lesson aims to :
Ingrain in the learner an understanding of the importance of
file formats, planning, and robust workflows.
Equip students with a background understanding of where
the imagery and data they will be dealing with
in their professional lives originates from.
1. LESSON DESCRIPTION
How the VFX professional might be involved at early stages in ensuring that data and imagery is captured and formatted correctly, ready for later use. By the end of this lesson you should have a good body of knowledge of how to plan a VFX shot
