What you should know before watching this course

For this course, I'd highly recommend a basic working knowledge of Autodesk Maya. You should be familiar with, moving objects, looking through a camera, creating and applying materials, creating lights, and rendering scenes. We'll be using the Mental Ray rendering engine, so a passing familiarity with that will be helpful. We'll be using the Foundry's NUKE. A basic knowledge of Nuke is helpful, but not required, as I'll start out with the basic read notes for importing images and walk through step by step. We'll also be using Adobe After Effects, and again, a basic working knowledge of After Effects, importing footage, setting blending modes, and ordering on the timeline is helpful.

We'll be using FCheck, a utility viewer that comes with Maya. And again, a basic knowledge of using this is helpful but I'll start out with opening an image. If you need to find FCheck, look in your Maya program group in the bin directory.