Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
Preparation to record
A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer
About the video: Preparation to record
Overview
“In this lesson I will share basic technical considerations to record the necessary material to use as background in the project. I will work based on the images of my neighborhood, registered with my cell phone camera.”
In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: Preparation to record, 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 I will show you my process to record Plates and you'll notice which is a very handmade process and that is not complicated at all. In this lesson we will see the preparation of our equipment to be able to record For our neighborhood. Before leaving I wanted to comment a couple of things, a couple of considerations regarding its equipment and the plane itself We are going to record. With respect to the team, I'm at least using a cell phone. If you have something better than a cell phone, please, use that, if not, a slightly more professional camera. It’s ideal that they use so...”
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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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