Jan 27
The Foundry is pleased to announced that Nuke 6.0 has been released and can be downloaded here. Nuke 6.0 has a completely new shape rotoscope and paint toolset, and includes Keylight as standard.
NukeX is incorporated in the Nuke download. The additional features are activated with a NukeX license key. Customers entitled to this upgrade have been emailed with their NukeX keys.
If you are new to Nuke and interested in NukeX, please contact sales@thefoundry.co.uk.
Jan 27
Armed with The Foundry’s Nuke compositing software, Image Engine was the lead VFX vendor on District 9 – the debut feature from director Neill Blomkamp. The Vancouver based VFX studio completed 311 shots on the film, which grossed $130m worldwide in its first five weeks. The quality of the work was such that Blomkamp declared, “Image Engine has done absolutely top tier, brilliant work that far exceeded my expectations. Read the full case study or download a 17 minute video breakdown of various shots in District 9 by Shervin Shoghian, Compositing Supervisor at Image Engine, pictured above.
Jan 27
It’s been a long time in the making, but Avatar has finally been released. BBC London News caught up with The Foundry to see how they’d helped James Cameron realize his vision.
Certified Nuke End User Course and Exam Service is now online. Check back here to find out training held around your region.
The first set of dedicated software tools for 3D film post-production, which address common problems experienced with stereoscopic imagery.
Chair judge, Dr Lincoln Wallen said:
“The Foundry’s Ocula is likely to have a significant impact on the film industry and as such we are proud to announce it as the winner of the 2009 iawards ‘entertainment and media category’. We look forward to seeing the results in many upcoming films that have benefited from the use of this technology.”
The iaward website: http://iawards.org.uk/default.aspx
The Media Village will be hosting a presentation and demonstration of Nuke, at Makati City, Philippines ” NUKE – The Future of VFX”
Event details
Date:Thursday, 30 July 2009
Time: 2.30pm
Venue: The Columns Ayala Avenue Tower 2
6821 Ayala Avenue cor. Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue
Bel-Air, Makati City 1229 Philippines
To register for the event, please go to this link here
The Media Village is a leading integrator of data-centric, digital post-production solutions to film and video professionals throughout Southeast Asia. Know more about The Media Village here
Jul 20
Not going to SIGGRAPH and bored of all this New Orleans chat, but looking forward to IBC? Why not REGISTER FREE for the show. SelectCUSTOMER TICKET, choose The Foundry and enter registration code 10399. IBC takes place this year in Amsterdam from 11th to the 15th September in the RAI. You’ll find us on stand 7-F28. We’re lining up some great people to demo and will have plenty for you to see. Nuke 6.0, NukeX 6.0, Ocula 2, RollingShutter and more…
Jul 20
You can now download Nuke 5.1v6 from our website. This is a point release addressing the problems experienced by users after the Mac OSX 10.5.7 upgrade. This also fixes the known issue with EXRs on Windows XP64 with old AMD Opteron machines. It is a standard maintenance release, and available to anyone with valid maintenance. DOWNLOAD NOW. To renew your maintenance please emailsales@thefoundry.co.uk.
The Foundry is happy to invite you to their Nuke User Group at SIGGRAPH on Monday 3rd August.
Places are limited, so REGISTER NOW to reserve your space and see how VFX professionals from Laika, Digital Domain and Blue Sky Stuidos have been using Nuke. In addition, The Foundry team will be taking you through new developments and features in Nuke 5.2, Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0. We will also give you a peek at Ocula 2 – the latest incarnation of our stereoscopic plug-in toolset for Nuke.
The User Group is at Le Petit Theatre and starts at 5pm (registration from 4pm) with beer and nibbles afterwards.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
The Foundry Team
Nuke in Commercials
Ben Fischler, Visual Effects Supervisor
LAIKA/house
Ben Fischler will discuss how LAIKA/house is using Nuke 5.1 in a fast-paced, quick-turnaround commercial production environment to complement existing post-production processes. He will offer insights on how Nuke aided the post-production work in the creation of content for a collection of iconic brands and their different mediums
Physically based lighting for Benjamin Button
Paul Lambert, Compositing Supervisor
DIGITAL DOMAIN
In the course of creating the Oscar-winning CG head for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Digital Domain’s compositors were challenged with seamlessly blending live action and CG. Lighting was particularly complex, as Benjamin is lit with candle light, full sunlight, and everything in between. Compositing Supervisor Paul Lambert will describe the HDR pipeline he built from on-set data that included more than 100 different HDR setups, and demonstrate the physically-based lighting tools developed to generate automatic, photo-real results.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ari Rubenstein, Senior Compositor &
Matt Wilson, Lighting TD
BLUE SKY STUDIOS
Blue Sky Studios will present a short documentary film based upon the integration and evolution of Nuke on its latest feature “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”. The film will showcase the development of a unique toolset which aided in the transition of compositing at Blue Sky from a mechanical “fix-it” methodology, to a considerably more creative one.
Industrial Light & Magic - A Lucas Film Company)
excerpt from the foundry’s press release
London, June 8th, 2009 – Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), today announced that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM,) Lucasfilm Ltd’s Academy Award-winning visual effects studio, has purchased a site license of Nuke to complement their in-house pipeline.
Founded in 1975 to create visionary effects for the what would become the space epic Star Wars,ILM has gone from strength to strength producing groundbreaking visual effects work on nearlythree-hundred films including Oscar® nominees Iron Man and Transformers, the Indiana Jonesseries, and the Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic Park franchises among many others.
Their visionary work has earned them thirty-seven Academy Award® nominations for Best Visual Effects and garnered fifteen Oscars as well as twenty AMPAS Sci-Tech Awards®.
Lucasfilm’s Chief Technical Officer, Richard Kerris, comments:
“ILM has a history in providing breakthrough imagery for production and to do that, our artists need to be equipped with the best possible tools. We believe Nuke is a forerunner in the compositing field. The Foundry’s investment in research and development and customer-focused approach has produced a flexible, artist-focused tool set. We are excited to work with The Foundry and see where these new possibilities will take our work.”
“Nuke allows us to leverage our 3D pipeline while remaining in the compositing environment which puts a great deal of power into the hands of the compositors,” explains Pat Tubach, ILM’s compositing department supervisor. “We work on very complex shots and the remarkable speed at which Nuke operates means our artists can focus on the art of visual effects and not have their creativity impeded by a software speed limit.”
Bill Collis, CEO of The Foundry, commented, “ILM is a huge force in the world of visual effects and we are thrilled that they have chosen to add Nuke as a key tool in their compositing workflow.We are very excited to see where our working relationship takes us.”