I’m thinking about creating a start to finish Natron 101 course. Start at the interface, then basic tools and nodes, then creating a simple composition using two images, then advanced compositing (masking, cleanup, chroma removal, noise reduction, etc).
I know that there are tutorials for Natron but they’re not organized. What I mean is, one channel doesn’t cover it all. They are scrambled across YouTube and people sometimes have to search for a new video to continue. I’m planning to make one playlist for Natron and cover as much as I can from installing Natron to rendering out an advanced composition.
I haven’t started planning any of this because right now I’m working on the Blender courses, but I’ll take a look at some Nuke and Fusion courses to see how they are structured and create a rough outline of the course. I’ll post it here so everyone can know how I’m planning to do it and if anything’s wrong, missing or to be done differently, it can be changed.
Looking forward to seeing your take on it! My “Indie Rebel” YouTube channel started as a course that did the same thing - walking people through from start to finish. A one-stop shop for learning Natron. Good luck!
An idea I had recently was to do a series about every node in Natron. One video per node. That way someone could just search for the node they don’t understand and there would be a 3-5 minute video talking about just that node and what it does. I still think it would be cool, I just don’t have the time to do all the videos for that, so feel free to take the idea 
Good idea! Even shorter than that would be cool. We would certainly put the link to the video in the node’s official doc.
And we need text doc too! For now, we only have a few link to Martin Constable’s Nuke courses (eg Merge - RMIT Visual Effects), but his website is very slow.
That’s a good idea. But I was thinking about how the nodes work in harmony to create a composition instead of only focusing on working with individual nodes and what they do. Of course, I will explain some of the nodes but not all of them. The objective of my course will be to get people started with creating compositions in Natron as quickly and easily as possible.
You should make the node videos. I’ve seen your work and its really great. If you make the videos on the individual nodes, I can just direct my viewers to your playlist if they want an in-depth explanation of all nodes.
Well Sean beat me to it xD
Those videos are actually from 2017 and he just uploaded them to Youtube recently. Intro to Compositing in Natron | OpenVisual FX
Wouldn’t hurt to do another course using a more recent version of Natron
Hmmmmmm good point.
I’ll take some time to watch Sean’s videos and see what I can do differently and/or better.
I’m currently working on a comprehensive Blender course so it’s gonna take quite a lot of time to start recording the Natron course. I’m living with my parents and grandparents right now and there’s a lot of chaos in the house so I’ll probably need to rent some place to setup a recording studio.
@El_Artista did you create the 101 Natron tutorial series? If you did, then please share the link or share a link of some good YT channel for a newbie like me.
Thank you
Folks, I am planning finally to start it as well. The thing is most of the footage I get are NDA so can’t really use them for tutorials.
If anyone wants to contribute vfx footage for tutorial purpose that would be great! Only CC I got was Tears of steel. But that doesn’t cover every vfx technique and not challenging actually.
So here is my basic vfx ops, please include yours as well:
- Keying
- Sky replacement
- 2D tracking
- Stabilization
- Cornerpin
- Roto
- Day to night
- Wire remove
- Color match
- set extention
With Blender
- 3D tracking
- Projection painting
- 3D integration
And what else?
Haven’t been able to allocate time due to unpredictable schedules so no I have not yet started on this. I’m doing my best to manage the Discord and help Hank and Songtech with some things.
Tears of Steel dailies are very rudimentary. We can use them for some things but not everything. Unfortunately most professionals would only have NDA footage so it will be kinda difficult to acquire suitable CC0 footage… I could have shot some new footage but, believe it or not, I lost my set of chroma cloth last month while on a trip 
… Im planning on getting a new set soon but no solid word on that yet.
Also I think we should include @tmorley, @El_Director and William Young in this discussion. William and Thomas are already making good content on YouTube.
An idea I had recently was to do a series about every node in Natron. One video per node. That way someone could just search for the node they don’t understand and there would be a 3-5 minute video talking about just that node and what it does.
I think this is a good idea. Split the diff tried to do the same for Nuke. I pesonally wish there are more ressources for Natron on Youtube and Odysee. Something like the old videos by Videocopilot where a specific shot was made in 20-40 minutes would be interesting as well. Or recreating something from a film that was just released.
maybe you can also check for footage on https://artgrid.io/. Maybe they also offer affilate programs.
I have started populating tutorials with this tag:
https://discuss.pixls.us/tag/natron-tutorial
What I am seeing there are many tutorials scattered across the forum. Might be a good idea if forum mods can gather them.
Nice idea, I’ll post there too when I stumble on a good tutorial. I suggest we add the level of the tutorial in the title.
I have no idea how I got here or why I read all of this thread. I was looking for some AI Voice Mods and got lost in a rabbit hole.
I have no interest in Blender or Natron, but I watched some of your videos, and you are a funny guy, dude. I was genuinely entertained watching your videos, and they are great without pointless fluff, straight to the point. You make it look so simple.
I will probably never check back here, but kudos to you; you are doing great! I think by putting your videos on YouTube, you’ll have people commenting the same thing like “awesome straight to the point tutorial!”
Nice tuts ser
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Hey I am a content course creator and I just began learning about Natron. I have been using blender for a number of years now and I wanted to do more learning with Natron and that is how I came to this forum. I am interested in helping do some work on these courses if you need some help. Please DM me if I can be of service. Thank yoU
Hey.
So… when I first had the idea for this however many years ago, I was pretty ambitious about doing this and a lot of other things, but in the last few years a lot of bad shit has happened (in general and also to me personally). That and being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, clinical depression and ADHD has put me in a state of being almost completely unable to work, and I’m starting to lose interest in things I like doing and life itself.
To be short and concise, I don’t think I’m going to be able to make this unless some magical force appears in my life and gives me reason and motivation to do things with real passion again. I really don’t want to do this in a half-assed dispassionate way.
Being an autodidact in CGI, specifically 3D and compositing, I’ve seen many kinds of tutorials, courses and resources in many forms (text, video, etc) and I’ve gathered a lot of insight into what those tutorials/courses/resources do right and wrong, and how to do it in a better way. Mostly it comes down to explaining things in terms of concepts which is what most tutorials and courses suck at. If anyone wants to make this thing, I can provide support and insight. But if people are counting on me, then I’m sorry, I’m going to let you down because I’ve barely got the energy and motivation to carry me through daily life as it is, and with that I won’t be able to make this like when I was once ambitious and passionate about these things.
Again, if anyone wants to make or wants to collaborate, I am the admin of the Natron Discord server (Natron Digital VFX Compositor) so I can make a separate channel there for people who are collaborating on this course.