COURSE TRAILER

This is not only a keying course. Image integration is one of the most essential skills of a compositor. Even if you can get an alpha of an image, knowing how to artistically blend and adjust colors to draw the eye is even more important.

This course teaches the creative process of seeing contrast and value, color and edge blending, diffusion and black levels, camera artifacts and exposure, and more

Taught like a University

Learn keying visually! Before jumping into software, it’s important to learn the theory and concepts behind what you’re doing.

Similar to university lectures, numerous concepts are covered using diagrams, illustrations, and explanations - before jumping into the Nuke portion.

One of our core philosophies is taking something complex, and making it SIMPLE to understand.

Realistic Scenarios. Feature Film level keying.

Green Screen removal on feature films isn’t as simple as selecting one color.

We go through difficult real world keying exercises, such as keying an unevenly lit greenscreen. This requires dozens of combined keys, rotoscoping, and various techniques to extract

You will also learn techniques about advanced edge fixes, edge painting, patch fixes, advanced camera grain workflows and more.

Methods for edges, grain, and script structure

Working on a green screen key for film requires a very detailed approach. Advertising, Episodic Television, and Feature Film require different levels of detail or speed.

In this course you will learn feature film level keying (the most detailed keys and edge integration possible) - so you can work in any of these three fields by knowing a wide array of techniques.

"The NK505 course is excellent, even for a beginner like myself with keying or grading in Nuke. It teaches the fundamentals of compositing with Nuke in a way that other courses never have. Alex repeatedly emphasizes the importance of thinking logically / modular, which makes the NK505 course invaluable to me. If you are looking for a course, I highly recommend NK505."
-Hisanori K.

NK505 is the best course on keying that I’ve purchased - every second of every class is packed with helpful information and practical concepts.

Those are explained in such depth that I can easily reproduce them in any compositing software. Instead of copying nodes and values inside Nuke, I was trained to first think as a compositor by understanding the fundamentals.

On top of the keying, I found the integration aspect to be the most valuable – as someone starting to get into compositing, I was blown away by how much detail and techniques one can apply to a shot to get that high-end, polished photorealistic look.

Like all the previous Nuke foundational learning courses from Compositing Academy, NK505 was a fantastic investment. I can definitely see myself purchasing NK606 and other products in the future.

-Pietro D.

“Amazing training I really learned good techniques and even new things to optimize my workflow for keying, despill, and integration.

For me, integration and how you solve the real issues was the best part of this training. Thanks man!”

-Lurival J.

“The techniques covered in these trainings provided a wealth of new information for me to consider using in my work. The approach that Alex takes to educate newcomers is outstanding, and I feel that the price of these courses is well worth it for the knowledge and skills I have gained. These techniques have really challenged my brain and helped me to think in new ways. Overall, I have been extremely satisfied with the quality of these trainings and the value they have added to my work.”
-Andrew C.