, Head of D We had the LFOR E Nuke was a huge W application development is a formidable task for even the most talented group of people, therefore in 2007 Nuke became part of ATT asset in this part of our pipeline allowing us to create the environments before completing the final composite. sky domes for The Day The Earth Stood Still. M Compositing, Weta Digital back on I produces The innovation of the Digital Domain team has culminated in an application focused on solving real issues faced by post production facilities all over the world. However, their core speciality and passion lies within realizing the vision of some of the industry’s most forward-thinking commercial, music video and film directors. To continue to do this while being at the forefront of compositing The Foundry’s product portfolio. The Foundry remains committed to the original concept of developing a compositing application designed by artists for artists and many of the Nuke team are from a production background. In addition Nuke’s core engineering team is working from The Foundry’s HQ in London, which is just a stone’s throw away from a number of leading visual effects studios. Nuke’s development has greatly benefited from having close relationships with customers and The Foundry has maintained these relationships as well as developing new ones, to ensure that Nuke continues to deliver real, workable solutions and cutting-edge technology for the post production industry. ramestore F We find Nuke to be a powerful tool that has become an important part of the Weta Digital pipeline. task of building a number of complex environments and creating X Supervisor on Quantum of Solace at F , V a substantial increase in productivity from the crew. Nuke is fast The speed of interactivity that you get with the Nuke GU HUM T N and easy to work with, allowing the compositor to get quick feed JO essential tasks. Despite the fact that we were training up most of the crew in the first weeks of the show, the learning curve was quick and the increase in workflow was noticeable from early on. 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Images courtesy of Weta Digital. © Nuke is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market. If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is a production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline. Nuke began as the in-house compositing and effects application at Digital Domain. The visual effects artists at DD found that the existing commercial solutions simply weren’t flexible or fast enough to do what they needed to do, in the way that they needed to do it. In 1994 Digital Domain brought together a team of highly talented engineers and visual effects artists to create a solution to meet the growing requirements of a leading post production facility, and so, the Nuke application started to take shape. For more than a decade, visual effects artists at Digital Domain have been tasked with pushing the boundaries of visual effects technology and the evolution of Nuke has been closely linked with the pioneering techniques developed by this talented pool of industry professionals. ADVANCING THE ART OF DIGITAL COMPOSITING For Windows For and Mac OS X OS Mac and Linux , ® ® ® VE I 6.0 R S O N ADVANCING THE ART OF DIGITAL COMPOSITING DIGITAL OF ART THE ADVANCING Established in 1996, The Foundry is a leading developer of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity and workflow in film and video post production. The Foundry has grown considerably since its early days; we now successfully license our sophisticated image processing technology to third parties, hold a portfolio comprising two Sci-Tech Award® winning technologies – including high-end compositing application Nuke and operate offices in London and Los Angeles. Our innovative products are renowned worldwide and support a wide range of host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Baselight, Film Master, Final Cut Pro, Shake and our own Nuke. Other products from The Foundry… Take a look at Furnace; wire, rig and flicker removal, a world-class retimer, grain management, dust-busting, image stabilisation, auto rotoscoping, image segmentation and much more. Furnace features a whole host of plug-ins, which you’ll find yourself using on a daily basis. OurRollingShutter plug-in will help you tackle CMOS camera skew. Tinder and Tinderbox are incredibly versatile collections of 2D visual effects featuring a vast array of fast, organic effects, a bunch of everyday tools and a host of blurs, generators and warpers. If you’re working in stereo, consider Ocula – an award winning plug-in tool set that solves common problems encountered in stereoscopic post production. THE FOUNDRY THE FOUNDRY 1 Wardour Street 618 Hampton Drive London Venice PICTURE CREDITS: W1D 6PA CA 90291 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL © 2007 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IMAGES COURTESY OF WETA DIGITAL. United Kingdom USA AUSTRALIA © 2007 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IMAGES COURTESY OF ANIMAL LOGIC. WATCHMEN © 2009 WARNER BROS. IMAGES COURTESY OF INTELLIGENT CREATURES. T: +44 (0)20 7434 0449 T: +1 310 399 4555 AUDI Q5 © 2009 AUDI. IMAGES COURTESY OF PASSION PICTURES. F: +44 (0)20 7434 1550 F: +1 310 450 4516 E: [email protected] THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES © BBC WALES. E: [email protected] W: www.thefoundry.co.uk THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR © UNIVERSAL. IMAGES COURTESY OF DIGITAL DOMAIN. W: www.thefoundry.co.uk [email protected] import, projection mapping, ® or contact platforms – all at equal cost. Licenses float ® NUKE for full product information or to download the free and Mac OS X ® +1 310 399 4555 or for more information and fully functioning 30 day , Linux ® +44 (0)20 7434 0449 www.thefoundry.co.uk www.thefoundry.co.uk/nuke across operating systems, so every artist can work where they are most comfortable and creative. geometry modifiers and more. This true 3D environment creates powerful workflows and exciting new ways to approach compositing. Call us on or visit evaluation licenses. Visit Personal Learning Edition (PLE). A cost effective solution Not only does Nuke run on relatively modest hardware it comes with an economical $3,500 / £2,300 price tag, so even on a fairly tight production budget you can gain access to a functional, fast and intuitive compositing solution. Work on your platform of choice Nuke is available on Windows Nuke supports OpenFX™ providing access to third party plug-ins as well as The Foundry’s own. Currently the Tinderbox collection (which includes lens flares, warpers, and lens blurs), RollingShutter (CMOS skew correction), Ocula (stereoscopic post production tools) and the Furnace collection (which includes motion vector retiming, wire removal, clean plate creation, grain, and texture tools) are available, with more collections added all the time. Use your favourite plug-ins Nuke offers an extremely open architecture. Both its node graph and user interface are accessible ways. innumerable in Nuke customize to possible it making language, scripting Python the through If you really want to drill down, Nuke supports the industry standard OFX plug-in API as well as a native developers’ kit (NDK) for creating your own tightly integrated plug-ins. Tailored to suit you The need for speed Even when processing high resolution footage at 32-bit floating point precision on modest hardware, Nuke’s multi-threaded, scanline-based rendering engine gives rapid feedback. Have it your way Saveable layouts, GUI customization capabilities, and features like the ‘bullseye’ and ‘input’ buttons, make managing large, complex composites easier than ever. Nuke’s exclusive Image Based Keyer (IBK™) gives artists powerful tools for dealing with Nuke’s exclusive Image Based Keyer (IBK™) gives artists powerful tools for dealing with uneven backings. From Nuke 6.0, Keylight, The Foundry’s industry renowned keyer – particularly adept at dealing with hair and reflections – also comes as standard. Powerful keying technology Nuke delivers the industry’s broadest support for EXR images. Read, process and write over Nuke delivers the industry’s broadest support for EXR images. Read, process and write over a thousand channels per stream across multiple user-defined views, improving data management and workflow. Experience multi-channel, multi-view, high dynamic range compositing Do it in 3D Nuke’s powerful 3D workspace supports OBJ and Autodesk FBX FAST FLEXIBLE INTUITIVE ARCHITECTURE MAJOR FEATURES 3D TOOLS AND FEATURES KEYERS We utilized Nuke to replicate the ›› Scanline-based image processing engine. shader network of Rorshcach’s mask ›› Four-point 2D tracking/stabilization. ›› 3D scene scanline renderer with multi-sampled ›› Advanced Image Based Keyer (IBK™). Additional Capabilities of NukeX 6.0 Waiting for entire frames to render to see the within the 3D package. Open EXR and Nuke motion blur. effects of your changes is a thing of the past. simplified the process, allowing for an efficient ›› Per-session undo/redo history throughout UI ›› Integrated Keylight™ keyer. Nuke’s scanline rendering engine only renders workflow that resulted in multiple iterations. with user-definable autosave intervals. ›› OBJ and Autodesk FBX® import with UV 3D CAMERA TRACKER FURNACECORE the part of the frame you are looking at, giving As a VFX Supervisor, it allowed me to preservation. ›› Integrated Primatte™ keyer. faster feedback and making interaction with push the shots creatively to a high level, ›› Colour correction: offset, gain, gamma, hue, ›› Integrates directly into Nuke’s 2D/3D image ›› FurnaceCore contains the core plug-ins from increasing our creative standard.