Shake 4: A comprehensive Study UK Classes & Lessons (Apple)

About this class

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.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This class is designed for those wanting to learn compositing and visual effects using Shake.

What prerequisites are required

Students should have a basic knowledge of compositing and effects

Contents of this class

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