Unlocking Shake

Shake 200: A Comprehensive Study of Shake

Duration: 5 days
Time: 10am - 5pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
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Cost: $1495
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Course Description
This three-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 Should Attend?
This class is designed for those wanting to learn compositing and visual effects using Shake.

Prerequisites
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:
Basic knowledge of compositing and effects

Course Outline - Day 1

Lesson 1
The Shake Workflow Interface 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.

Lesson 4
Intermediate Composting, Part 1 Essentials of Compositing

Lesson 5
Intermediate Compositing, Part 2 Creating a Drop Shadow, Animation, Image Warping and Grain.

Course Outline - Day 2

Lesson 6
QuickPaint Setting Resolution, Edit vs. Paint Mode, Using the Brushes, Picking Color, Modifying Strokes, Stroke Modes, Converting Strokes, Creating a Write-On Effect, Painting in Perspective, Dustbusting and Rotoscoping.

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.

Lesson 10
Keying Understanding Primatte.

Course Outline - Day 3

Lesson 11
Advanced Compositing Photoshop Files, FileIn the Source Material, Tracking: Stabilization, Building the Composite, The Curve Editor.

Lesson 12
Animation Creating the Fairy.

Lesson 13
Tracking One-Point Tracking, Four-Point Tracking, Tracker Adjustments.

Lesson 14
Command Line Shake in the Command Line.

Appendix A
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.