Shake 200: A Comprehensive Study of Shake

Objectives

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 colour-matching tools, as well as utilising 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 organisational structure.


Pre-requisites:

Basic knowledge of Macintosh OS X. Basic knowledge of compositing and effects


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


The Shake Workflow


Interface Workflow, The Shake Interface, Importing Images and Sequences, Using the Viewer.



Basic Compositing


Process Trees, Creating a Simple Tree.



Colour Correction


Basic Colour Correction Tools, Using PlotScanline to Understand, Colour Corrections, Concatenation, Colour Matching Using Channel Isolation, Colour Matching Using ColourMatch, The ColourCorrect Node.



Intermediate Composting, Part 1


Essentials of Compositing



Intermediate Compositing, Part 2


Creating a Drop Shadow, Animation, Image Warping and Grain.



QuickPaint


Setting Resolution, Edit vs. Paint Mode, Using the Brushes, Picking Colour, Modifying Strokes, Stroke Modes, Converting Strokes, Creating a Write-On Effect, Painting in Perspective, Dustbusting and Rotoscoping.



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.










Film Compositing


Film Resolution Files, Proxies, The Vine Composite, Rendering Full Resolution.



Video/Audio


Video Fields, Miscellaneous Video Functions, Audio.



Keying


Understanding Primatte.



Advanced Compositing


Photoshop Files, FileIn the Source Material, Tracking: Stabilization, Building the Composite, The Curve Editor.



Animation


Creating the Fairy.



Tracking


One-Point Tracking, Four-Point Tracking, Tracker Adjustments.



Command Line


Shake in the Command



Line.



Compositing Maya Renders in Shake

Multipass as a Lifestyle, A Multipass Lighting Composite, Creating a Multipass Macro, Compositing the Multipass Scene, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Rendering Out of Maya, More Maya-Shake Timesavers.