My day job as a Compositor, isn’t just pushing pixels and making things look pretty. I also develop tools for our Nuke pipeline here at Speedshape.

That’s meant mainly coding tools called ‘Gizmos’. They’ve been either utilities that do repetitive tasks for me…because I’m lazy. Or filters that apply some kind of cool effect. But recently with the release of Nuke 5, I’ve been doing a ton of down and dirty python / TCL coding. Mostly interface mods, but I’ve also been working on some pretty cool Nuke plugins.

Now what does that have to do with the price of beans? Well…nothing really. Just a little back story on how I found something very cool today…

LINK: FX PHD’s Compositor’s Guide to Nuke

I was digging through The Foundry’s NDK documentation and found that little gem listed above. Eight delicious video tutorials that take you through the world of Nuke 5.

And…it’s all for FREE! That’s right…as in FREE beer.

God I wish this was around a couple years ago when I was making the transition from Shake. So if my incoherant ramblings have sparked any interest, and you want to learn Nuke…that’s the place to start.

Thank you FX PHD!

Alright, back to coding.