Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
Introduction to digital composition
A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer
About the video: Introduction to digital composition
Overview
“In this lesson we will go through the history of the composition, and we will review some basic concepts regarding the techniques that I will teach you during the course.”
In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: Introduction to digital composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production. Learn fundamentals and basic techniques to create a VFX shot with Nuke.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will make an introduction to the digital composition, to the tasks that belong to us as composers, and also, a brief historical review. In this course we will be Reviewing the basic techniques of composition. If you feel like taking the course using Nuke, I ask you, please, to go to the "Foundry" page, where they will find a non-commercial version, totally free, and has certain limitations regarding the output format, and the type of codecs they can import, and everything else, but it is not limiting at all so that they can follow the course. Nuke has a learning curve whi...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
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3D & Animation -
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Adobe After Effects, Nuke -
Areas
3D, Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX

Juan Olivares
A course by Juan Olivares
Juan Olivares is a specialist in digital composition and visual effects. His beginnings in the audiovisual world were in Buenos Aires (Argentina) working for television commercials, where he later made his big leap into the world of visual effects with the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes.
He worked on innumerable Argentine productions before moving to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked in houses specializing in visual effects such as The Embassy, Zoic, and Digital Domain, with which he was able to participate in Hollywood productions such as Deadpool, Arrow, and Furious 7. Then, he crossed the ocean, this time to London, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Framestore house for the film Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is currently in Chile, his native country, where he founded a visual-effects boutique specializing in characters and creatures, called Grumpy VFX, where he is a composer and visual-effects supervisor.
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