Our online tutorials are intended to complement our classroom studies, allowing students at Escape Studios to recap, or catch up on work they missed, while following a tutorial in their own time.
Video Tutorials
One of our priorities at Escape Studios is to have a series of video tutorials to cover everything, or almost everything, that we teach in the classroom. It's a system of blended learning, incorporating the best of traditional classroom study and virtual learning, part of what we call The Escape Method, designed to maximise our students' chances of breaking into the industry and beginning a long-term career in their chosen field.
We have many tutorials on compositing with Nuke, the leading industry software for compositors.
Introductory Videos
What Do Compositors Do?
What Do Compositors Do? 
Camera Tracking in Nuke with Klaudija Cermak
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| Camera Tracking in Nuke with Klaudija Cermak |
You can extract individual trackers to use in a 2D Tracker node and also there is an automatic Point Cloud that can aid in positioning of the cards one can project to cleanup patches or new elements for the shot.
To get started, watch the video below.
Klaudija Cermak explains "The Wonders of Nuke" - An Overview of Foundry's Nuke
Learn the art of Creating, Using and Deleting Toolsets in Nuke with Mitchell Searle.
Premultiplication and Unpremultiplication in Nuke
Rendering with the Write Node in Nuke
How to use mattes and alpha channels in Nuke.
How to grade plates in Nuke. Learn how to match your CG elements to your plates. Ten videos in this series. 
Using the Merge Node in Nuke to composite plates.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10970075/video/912330044
More Compositing Resources at Escape Studios
To find out more about compositing at Escape Studios, follow the links below:
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What is Compositing?
The Wonders of Nuke
Nuke Tutorials with Mitchell Searle
Learn the Art of 2D tracking in Nuke.
Premultiplication and Unpremultiplication in Nuke
with Mitchell Searle
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6290610
Using the Copying and Shuffle Nodes in Nuke
Learn how to use the Copying and Shuffle Nodes in Nuke, with Mitchell Searle. Use the Shuffle node to shuffle out CG passes, combine different input channels, and create a multi-channel exr file. There are six short videos in this series:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6290610
Using the Copying and Shuffle Nodes in Nuke
Rendering with the Write Node in Nuke
Learn the art of rendering with the Write Node in Nuke with Mitchell Searle.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6290737
Mattes and Alpha Channels in Nuke
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6290737
Mattes and Alpha Channels in Nuke
with Mitchell Searle.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6309614
Distorting Reality with The Matrix Node in Nuke, with Allar Kaasik.
Allar Kaasik takes us through the basics of machine learning in Nuke.
How does Morphing Work in Nuke? Nuke Tutorial with Allar Kaasik
Rotoscoping and Clean-up with Nuke and Mocha Pro with Allar Kaasik
How to Make Gizmos - Nuke Tutorial with Allar Kaasik. Allar explains how to create gizmos in Nuke and how to install them. Allar also demonstrates the difference between ToolSets and gizmos and when would you use either one. Nuke has a large set of nodes that apply specific effects - the art of compositing involves choosing the right ones; combining them to get the job done.
Keying without Alpha Channel; Nuke Tutorial with Clement Gharini. Clem demonstrates how to composite green-screen in Nuke without any alpha, in order to achieve a much higher integration of details and colours.
Digital Painting and Spacial Frequencies in Nuke with Allar Kaasik.
2D Re-Lighting Hacks with Allar Kaasik.
Learn to create lightning in Nuke.
Grow a Lawn Using Particles in Nuke - with Escape Studios compositing tutor and Nuke expert Lorenzo Maniccia. Did you know that Nuke's particle system is capable of more than just creating dust and wind effects? It can also scatter foliage and grass leaves on a selected area, making your project look even more realistic and natural.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6309614
Nuke Tutorials with Allar Kaasik
The "Matrix Node" in Nuke
Digital Painting & Spacial Frequencies in Nuke
Nuke Tutorial with Allar Kaasik
An Introduction to Machine Learning
Morphing in Nuke
Allar Kaasik explains the core VFX technique of “morphing” – how it works and how it is actually used in practice. Allar Kaasik explains face morphing (turning a doll’s head in a real girl) and then demonstrates how this technique is used to achieve “invisible effects”.
Rotoscoping in Nuke
Allar Kaasik explains rotoscoping and clean-up techniques using Nuke and Mocha Pro, including Mocha's planar tracking capabilities to speed up the process of match-moving. Allar also explains how to apply shapes and track data in Nuke.
How To Make Gizmos
Keying without Alpha Channel
Digital Painting in Nuke
2D Re-Lighting Hacks
Create Lightning in Nuke
Grow a Lawn Using Particles in Nuke
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| Grow a Lawn Using Particles in Nuke |
2D Compositing Tutorials with Lorenzo Maniccia
1. Planar Tracking in Nuke
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| Lorenzo Maniccia |
2. Parallax and Point Clouds
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10970075/video/9123300163. Tracker and Portrait
4. Planar Track - Bus Shot
5. Render a Video in Nuke - WRITE node
To find out more about compositing at Escape Studios, follow the links below:
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| Klaudija Cermak |
- Meet your Tutors - Sokratis Synitos
- Meet Your Tutors - Lorenzo Maniccia
- Meet Your Tutors - Klaudija Cermak
- Nuke Tutorials at our Vimeo Channel - free for all our current students and recent graduates
- Meet your Tutors - VFX Team
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