Nuke VFX Software — Compositing, Editorial and Review

Name: Nuke
Brand: Foundry
SKU: 900

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A scene from Game of Thrones that was created with the assistance of high quality playback, editing and review compositing software, Nuke Studio. Drogon is breathing fire at a burning village.

Your post-production powerhouse

Nuke is the powerful node-based compositing tool at the heart of the Nuke family. Whether your focus is on blockbusters, animation or binge-worthy episodic content, Nuke’s flexible and robust toolset empowers teams to create pixel-perfect content every time.

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Features

Post-production powerhouse

With over 200 nodes and a scalable node graph and image processing engine, Nuke provides the ultimate compositing toolset and gives artists everything they need to tackle diverse digital post-production challenges at any scale and resolution.

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Advanced compositing tools

Nuke’s Deep compositing tools reduce the need to re-render CG elements when content changes. It allows artists to work with images that contain multiple opacity, color and camera-relative depth samples per pixel.

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Work with future-facing technology

Nuke offers support for the leading industry standards including OpenEXR and rising technologies including Hydra and USD. Plus, with support for OpenColorIO and ACES, color management is easy and ensures consistent color from capture through to delivery.

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Maximize your 3D workflow

Artists can quickly place 2D and 3D elements using Nuke's integrated 3D environment. This workspace allows complex projection workflows using custom geometry to be set up and rendered with ease.

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Benefits

Compositing and much more

• Nuke’s advanced set of tools offer new levels of technical and creative control
• A vast array of flexible tools available at your fingertips
• Streamline your pipeline and tackle complex projects with ease

Unparalleled power and performance

• Nuke meets the needs of modern production work with support for industry-standard file formats
• Be more efficient with your compositing with a robust multi-channel workflow
• Tackle large scale projects thanks to Nuke’s node graph and resolution-independent processing

Collaboration, speed and efficiency

• Work fast with Nuke’s cutting-edge toolkits and fluid workflows
• Reuse tools thanks to features like Gizmos, Toolsets and Presets
• Easily share Nuke scripts, and parallelize work using LiveGroups, powering collaboration whether you’re sitting side by side or across the globe

The perfect fit for your pipeline

• Open and customizable, Nuke offers a flexible pipeline that scales to your needs
• Experience full pipeline integration, automate common tasks and procedures with Nuke’s robust Python API and Pyside
• Write your own image processing operations with Nuke’s C++ SDK, or using Nuke’s BlinkScript node

New in Nuke 16.0

Our latest update introduces new workflows and features that drastically speed up compositing and review, so you can focus on the final picture. Work across multiple shots in a single Node Graph, experience large-scale roto performance, faster shot review, approval and delivery, and much more.

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VFX Editing and Management

Nuke Studio and Hiero combine to make Foundry’s VFX Editing and Management solution. Artists can experience seamless review workflows, multi-shot management, editorial and conform in one powerful package.

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HieroPlayer: now free with Nuke

Streamline your pipeline and reach new levels of collaboration and control with HieroPlayer, Foundry's artist desktop review tool. Get a free annual subscription today with a Nuke or NukeX license.

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Who’s using Nuke

A depiction of a scene from Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder, which Framestore produced using the Nuke compositing tool. The character of Thor is shown against a sci-fi background as part of the moon fight scene.

Creating Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder with Framestore and Nuke

“Beyond making our sequences look spectacular, we were challenged by the volume of shots that required blockbuster-quality composites… we needed a compositing tool that allowed artists to work collaboratively.” Find out how Framestore used Nuke to create vast battle scenes and complex galaxy shots for this Marvel hit.

A computer-generated image of a scene from Squid Game, which was produced by Gulliver Studios, using Nuke. The image shows a close-up of a girl seemingly counting by a tree with an army of people in the distance.

How Gulliver Studios helped create Netflix’s Squid Game with Nuke

From the impressive environments to the intricate VFX details, Gulliver Studios was able to navigate large volumes of shots and 3D using Nuke. Read more about Compositing Supervisor Seok Jong-yeon’s experience creating terrifying playgrounds and eerie circuses for Squid Game.

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Vikram Kulkarni — Senior Compositor, Double Negative

Nuke has made possible things we couldn't have imagined doing in compositing. There is not a single project where we don't need to use its 3D pipeline for ease. I cannot thank Foundry enough for making comping so exciting!

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Patricia Llaguno — Lead Compositor, Framestore

Nuke is the compositing tool of choice for Framestore's film productions; it is incredibly versatile, customizable and user friendly. It enables our creative talent to explore and expand ideas and solve all manner of problems; with Nuke you really can fix it in comp!

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Gregor Puchatz — Aaron Sims Creative, CG supervisor

Nuke Studio is a backbone for us because it communicates with every part of the studio.