Course Overview
This five-day hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and basic interface of Shake. Using visual effects shots from major motion pictures, students will learn the process of integrating computer-generated elements with live-action photography using motion tracking and color-matching tools, as well as utilizing keying techniques to place blue and green screen shots against background plates. Most importantly, learn to create multi-layer composites using Shake's Node tree organizational structure.
Audience
This class is designed for those wanting to learn compositing and visual effects using Shake.
Prerequisites
Students should have a basic knowledge of compositing and effects
Course Outline
Lesson 1 - The Shake Workflow
The Shake Interface, Importing Images and Sequences, Using the Viewer.
Lesson 2 - Basic Compositing
Process Trees, Creating a Simple Tree.
Lesson 3 - Color Correction
Basic Color Correction Tools, Using PlotScanline to Understand, Color Corrections, Concatenation, Color Matching Using Channel Isolation, Color Matching Using ColorMatch, The ColorCorrect Node.
Day 2
Lesson 4 - Intermediate Composting, Part 1
Essentials of Compositing
Lesson 5 - Intermediate Compositing, Part 2
Lesson 6 - QuickPaint
Day 3
Lesson 7 - RotoShape
Add Shapes Mode versus Edit Shapes Mode, Creating and Modifying Shapes, Knot Modes, Right Mouse Controls, RotoShape Exercise, Roto Tips, Miscellaneous RotoShape Viewer Controls.
Lesson 8 - Film Compositing
Film Resolution Files, Proxies, The Vine Composite, Rendering Full Resolution.
Lesson 9 - Video/Audio
Video Fields, Miscellaneous Video Functions, Audio
Day 4
Lesson 10 - Keying
Understanding Primatte.
Lesson 11 - Advanced
CompositingPhotoshop Files, FileIn the Source Material, Tracking: Stabilization, Building the Composite, The Curve Editor
Lesson 12 - Animation
Creating the Fairy.
Day 5
Lesson 13 - Tracking
One-Point Tracking, Four-Point Tracking, Tracker Adjustments.
Lesson 14 - Command Line
Shake in the Command Line
