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Not only does Nuke run on relatively modest hardware it comes with an economical $3,500 / www.thefoundry.co.uk [email protected] +1 310 450 4516 +1 310 399 4555 us to create the £2,300 price tag, so even on a fairly tight production budget you can gain access to a functional, environments before fast and intuitive compositing solution. completing the final Visit www.thefoundry.co.uk/nuke for full product information or to download the free composite. Personal Learning Edition (PLE). Matt Welford, Head of ADVANCING THE ART OF DIGITAL COMPOSITING Compositing, Weta Digital Call us on +44 (0)20 7434 0449 or +1 310 399 4555 or contact [email protected] or visit www.thefoundry.co.uk for more information and fully functioning 30 day evaluation licenses. 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. large images a much more manageable task. saturation and contrast controls (per shadow, ›› Texturable cards, extended bicubic and ›› Hue and Luma/channel keyers and spill sup- processing environment providing live and in The Foundry’s Award Winning Furnace tool set. Lon Molnar, VFX Supervisor on Watchmen midtone and highlight region); full histogram bilinear meshes, and standard geometric prim- pression tools. context access to Nuke’s powerful pre and The set have undergone many enhancements, and CEO at Intelligent Creatures ›› 1023 channels of 32-bit floating point control; spline-based curve control; look up itives. post processing tools. including improved parameter layouts and USER INTERFACE © BBC Wales colour data, organised into user-definable tables (LUTs); hue correction and conversions documentation. layers. Work on up to 1023 individual chan- ›› Advanced window management. Saveable among industry standard colourspaces. ›› Projection mapping capabilities. ›› Analyze 2D image sequences and automati- nels, keeping your multi-pass renders together layouts, GUI customisation capabilities and cally solve to re-construct the 3D camera with ›› Kronos, high quality time warping based on in a single stream for a clean and readable quick-access features such as the ‘bullseye’ ›› Support for industry standard file formats Nuke is really interactive for unknown, approximate or known, constant or optical flow technologies. composite. and input buttons make navigating large including up to 1023 channels from OpenEXR artists. You don’t have to varying constraints. ›› MatchGrade, copy the grade from one projects easier than ever. files and RED camera R3D. dig around in drop-down menus to get sequence to another. ›› Efficiently manage local and global view what you need. The tools are all there ›› Control automatic track selection and distribu- ›› MotionBlur, add realistic blur based on the changes by applying individual node or param- ›› Node-based workspace enables rapid ›› Extensive set of image processing tools like on the desktop. Having used Nuke on tion and add user generated track data. motion in the scene.

eter changes to any number of user-defined © 2009 Warner Bros. Images courtesy of Intelligent Creatures. construction and editing of complex 2D and 3D noise, Gaussian blur, vector blur, defocus, TV and film projects, I would say it’s ›› DeNoise, removes or reduces all kinds of views – perfect for stereoscopic work. composites. Offers a variety of node dilate/erode, keying, Bezier matte tools, grid definitely on course to be the next ›› Automatic 3D point cloud and camera creation noise from your footage. WORKFLOW annotations, grouping and external pre-comp and spline warping, and a variety of image main VFX package... native to Nuke’s 3D environment. Create refer- ›› DeGrain, optimised removal of film grain from ›› Direct support for arbitrary name-value (with export), coloured backdrops, thumbnail merge methods. ence geometry and cards positioned at tracked a plate. metadata read, compared and updated in the › › Customise your compositor... take advantage images and more. SHAPES AND DRAWING points in the 3D scene. ›› ReGrain, add grain to your clean plates or processing stream. of Nuke’s extensive customisation capabilities ›› Concatenated 2D and 3D transforms with ...It’s capable of wiping the floor with most graphics from stock or sample your own. to make complex procedural effects accessible­ ›› A comprehensive 3D workspace... create user-selectable filtering methods for produc- ›› Nuke 6.0 has a totally re-written Paint and other similar packages, because of its C aMEra LENS Distortion Tools ›› DeFlicker2, removes in-scene flicker from ›› Multiple images of varying resolutions? No at the touch of a button. complex virtual environments in the OpenGL ing the best possible end result. Roto toolset that includes: cost and flexibility and it can only light sources of all kinds. problem… Nuke is resolution independent so accelerated 3D workspace using built-in primi- get better. ›› Integrates directly into Nuke’s 2D image ›› Steadiness, smooth a shots camera move, or you can read them, do your thing then output ›› Plain-text project files for easy external edit- tives, geometry imported from .OBJ, Autodesk ›› Fully-fledged animation editor. ›› Support for an unlimited number of animated Howard Jones, Head of Visual Effects, processing environment. lock off a shot completely. at the resolution(s) of your choice. ing and processing. FBX® files and camera projections. Bezier and b-spline shapes, with per-point Twenty4D VFX ›› RigRemoval, remove unwanted foreground ›› Drag and drop parameter linking saves typing feather and motion blur. ›› Un-warp and warp image sequences using a objects from a shot. ›› Plug-in support... enhance Nuke with third ›› Expression support throughout the interface. ›› One or many viewers can be used, showing the expressions. CURVES AND EXPRESSIONS parametric lens model. ›› Align, align similar shots automatically party plug-ins or utilise the NDK or OFX API to output of any node. All viewers support OpenGL ›› Paint with multiple brush types including ›› WireRemoval, quickly clean up wires. develop your own. ›› User-definable format support… Nuke features 3D scene viewing, wiping between multiple ›› Advanced motion-analysis based retiming. colour, reveal, blur, sharpen and smear. ›› Powerful curve editor for visualizing and edit- ›› Lens modeling through automatic analysis or ›› VectorGenerator, generates motion vectors a handy drop down menu which lists image sources, custom LUTs and more. ing curves and expressions. manual feature identification. for use in other nodes. ›› Highly multi-threaded on all supported formats by name along with the correspond- ›› Automatic disparity map driven position and ›› Intermix shapes and paint strokes in a layer platforms to take full advantage of multiple ing resolution and pixel aspect ratio. Faster ›› Multiple image outputs from the same script. movement correlation across views with The hierarchy with grouping and blending modes. ›› Interactive curve sketching. NukeX places a plethora of advanced tools at your finger tips for an exceedingly processor systems and multi-core CPUs. rendering with project-wide proxies plus a Foundry’s unique Ocula™ stereoscopic post competitive price. NukeX $6,000/£4,000. Images courtesy of Digital Domain. per-viewer proxy scale for handling very large ›› Graphical and command line interfaces enable production tools available as an optional extra. ›› Paint with recursive clone, full source trans- ›› Robust expression language offering a wide background plates. you to interact with Nuke in the interface that formation and time offset and onion skin variety of mathematical functions. When we asked around which VFX is most efficient for you. ›› Rotoscope shapes supporting per-point feath- (translate, scale, skew, rotate). compositor to buy, the answer ›› Automatic update based on the visibility in the ering, delivering increased flexibility when that kept coming back was Nuke. It has an viewer. Nuke’s intelligent updating is a much ›› Nuke is supported by many third-party render rotoing elements with motion blur. ›› All points/curves in the shapes/paint strokes NODES impressive 3D compositing toolset, handles more efficient way of working with images as it queuing applications and offers a straight-for- can be animated via expressions or driven by huge comps really well, and gives you only computes what you are looking at. ward command line rendering interface for ›› Highly customisable layout - save and restore a tracker. They can also be fully edited in the ›› Grouping functions: create reusable setups access to a large pool of freelance easy integration with bespoke systems. up to six custom layouts of tabbed panels or curve editor or accessed by the Python API. from node clusters; selectively expose param- artists too. ›› Built for HDRI... give attention to every detail floating windows. eters from nodes within groups; create custom Neil Riley, VFX Supervisor with Nuke’s 32-bit floating point quality scan- VIEWERS & FLIPBOOKING ›› Support for an unlimited number of fully ani- parameters and populate them with values via at Passion Pictures line rendering. matable spline-based masks. expressions. Having the elements ‘live’ in 3D ›› 2D and 3D viewer modes (with OpenGL™ in Nuke gave us a huge amount of accelerated preview). ›› Noise, grids, linear and radial gradients. ›› Clone function: create node instances that control. We could easily extend the set to maintain dynamic links with parents. accommodate for performance, add flickers ›› Multiple, concurrent image viewers. to flames in the background and create subtle focus pulls. ›› Annotation tools: name and colour individual We had all the tools at our fingertips in Nuke. Nuke goes way ›› User-definable Region of Interest (ROI). nodes; insert resizable and colour-coded back- beyond a typical compositing application giving you As far as film compositing tools with drops. power and flexibility over many different elements a future go, there is Nuke and nothing ›› Support for input A/B comparison on every viewer. within a scene. else. It’s developed by a solid, responsive and ›› Pre-comp: reference external scripts and pre- Justin Van Der Lek, Compositor at Digital Domain committed team. It’s an application you can ›› Integrated FrameCycler™ Professional for cache results to gain workflow efficiency and © 2009 Audi. Images courtesy of Passion Pictures. use to get shots finished today, that really is frame-rate accurate playback. multi-artist collaboration. also moving forwards in a changing industry. Call us on +44 (0)20 7434 0449 or +1 310 399 4555, Lindsay Adams, Compositing Lead on Australia contact or visit ›› Video preview output on BlackMagic (Decklink) at Animal Logic ›› Filtering: find and select nodes and groups [email protected] www.thefoundry.co.uk © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. and AJA (Kona/Xena) video cards. Images courtesy of Animal Logic. according to name or comment. for more information and fully functioning evaluation licenses.