NUKE
MAYA
GREENSCREEN
COMPOSITING
ODDITIES
100
The company that invented NUKE in the late 1990's
Who is Digital Domain?
100
You use this to "catch" shadows and reflections.
What is useBackground shader?
100
It why we use green for extractions for digital.
What is less grain, easier to light, furthest from skin, and less common in clothes?
100
What color is created when you have equal values of green and red?
What is Amber?
100
This film won the award in 1993 for best visual effects.
What is Jurassic Park?
200
When checking for zero blacks, what is the control you use in NUKE's viewer
What is gamma slider?
200
This light has no translation, soft and hard shadows, and no decay.
What is a direct light?
200
Was one of the early filmmakers often associated with the early use of the “Glass Shot” techniques.
Who was Norman Dawn?
200
The file format needed to store 32 bit per pixel images.
What is an exr?
200
He invented the Ride Film and a 60 FPS film format called Showscan. He supervised films like Blade Runner and 2001
Who is Douglas Trumbull?
300
This is the node that you use in NUKE to create Crepuscular rays
What is God Rays?
300
This editor allows you to make massive changes to hundreds of objects.
What is the attribute spreadsheet?
300
This process lit the subject with yellow light – which was not an issue with black and white film.
What is the“Dunning Process” ?
300
The proper way to implement a shadow pass in a composite.
What is mask to a color correct node?
300
It's the method of problem solving that makes you consider all solutions.
What is divergent thinking?
400
This node from NUKE takes an alpha channel and will allow you to re-arrange the order of them.
What is Shuffle?
400
This shader must be used to ensure that images for reflections are not shaded with light and shadow.
What is a surface shader?
400
He perfected the blue screen process for Ben Hur and this process was used for over 40 years.
Who is Petro Valhos?
400
The proper way to color correct to preserve edges of an element.
What is unpremult/operation/premult?
400
He won the Academy award for Visual Effects last year for the film "Interstellar"
Who is Paul Franklin?
500
The color space that NUKE uses to do all its operations in.
What Linear Color Space?
500
The correct setting for Maya's frame buffer for Pmaps
What is 32x4 RGBA Float?
500
This is how you mathematically create a blue-screen extraction.
What is take the MAX value of RED and GREEN and subtract BLUE?
500
The node you use when removing color information from the RGB channels when using a different alpha channel
What is premult?
500
If I was alone in my room and there was someone trying to get inside to kill me. I had a match, box of eggs, and an old roll of toilet paper, this is what I would do.
What is Problem Solve.