Sneak Peek - NUKE 8.0

Sneak Peek - NUKE 8.0:
NUKE product manager, Jon Wadelton, goes through his favorite new and enhanced features in NUKE 8.0

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Free Online Video Training: Getting Started With Nuke

Free Online Video Training: Getting Started With Nuke | Premiumbeat.com:
Want to  jump into Nuke, The Foundry’s professional compositing and visual effects app? Check out this series of quick video tutorials to get started!

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The Foundry Launches Hieroplayer

The Foundry Launches Hieroplayer | AWN | Animation World Network:
HIEROPLAYER is a VFX review and playback tool built for artists. It gives NUKE users the power to playback every shot on the VFX timeline in context on their own workstation. This cost-effective tool is priced at £200 including one year’s maintenance.

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Plugin Manager

Plugin Manager:
Jared Glass, a TD with Triggerfish Animation Studios in South Africa (the studio behind Zambezia), has released into the wild a plugin manager for Nuke called, well, Plugin Manager.
For those who use Nukepedia and other sites to download Gizmos and Plugins only to find out that there’s little for them to do with the stuff if they don’t know code, this is the tool for them.

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Nuke 7.0 Out

Nuke 7.0 Out:

So it’s finally here. Nuke 7 was released Friday the 30th of November and what a wonderful Christmas (or Hanukah or whatever other festival of lights celebration you’re into) present it is for all of us.
They pulled all the stops at The Foundry for this release. Nuke is going to be a lot more stable, powerful, and the amount of things you’ll be able to do internally without going to an external application, just seems to grow more and more.

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More 3D plugins for Nuke

More 3D plugins for Nuke:
More 3D tomfoolery comes to Nuke with two suites of plugins by Frederich Munch.
Geometry Tools is a general 3D asset creation and modification suite. Dynamics is a rigid and soft body simulation tool set.

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Nuke Compositing Demo

Nuke Compositing Demo:
Here is a walkthrough of a shot I made in the Foundry's Nuke Compositing Software.  Watch it in 1080p if you want to see what's going on in the node tree.

The Foundry Announces NUKE 7.0 at IBC 2012

The Foundry Announces NUKE 7.0 at IBC 2012:

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry is pleased to announce NUKE 7.0, a revolutionary version of its industry leading compositor.

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The Foundry Updates NUKE, NUKEX MARI to Improve Workflows

The Foundry Updates NUKE, NUKEX MARI to Improve Workflows:
The Foundry has recently updated NUKE and NUKEX to improve compatibility with other
applications from The Foundry and 3rd party vendors, and MARI is now more customisable.

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Freeware and Shareware section on the ASSIMILATE Store, first out SCRATCH2Nuke

Freeware and Shareware section on the ASSIMILATE Store, first out SCRATCH2Nuke:

ASSIMILATE has created a new Freeware and Shareware section on their ASSIMILATE Store. The first item in that section is SCRATCH2Nuke.
SCRATCH2Nuke is a set of Python based scripts that exhibit the extensibility of SCRATCH through the use of XML. It allows you to create a bridge to pass both MetaData and images originating in SCRATCH to Nuke (By The Foundry) and back to Scratch via XML and the Global Watch Folder.

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Final Cut Pro X to Nuke workflow using a custom free script

Final Cut Pro X to Nuke workflow using a custom free script


So you need to perform some compositing on your footage that FCPX won't handle. Now you can output your clips to Nuke with this free script and layer away.

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NUKE for After Effects users - free webinar by Steve Wright!

NUKE for After Effects users - free webinar by Steve Wright!:

If you are an After Effects artists, work in VFX or are a 3D animator, you don't want to miss Steve Wright's (a 20 year VFX senior compositing veteran with credits in over 70 feature films) free webinar on NUKE for AE. It will take place on Thursday 17th November from 10 to 11.30 PDT. The webinar will last 90 minutes.

You can watch the preview here:



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The Foundry Puts NUKE, MARI and OCULA to Work at IBC

The Foundry Puts NUKE, MARI and OCULA to Work at IBC: The Foundry launched the new HIERO, showed the latest versions of NUKE, MARI and OCULA, and invited speakers from VFX companies to demonstrate their work on recent film and TV projects.
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NUKE & NUKEX 6.3 NOW SHIPPING

NUKE & NUKEX 6.3 NOW SHIPPING:
NUKE & NUKEX 6.3 is The Foundry’s BIGGEST EVER release of NUKE, bringing improvements and additions which expand the parameters of traditional compositing. NUKE and NUKEX are designed to enable artists to stay within the software for longer, saving round trips with other departments and arming them to tackle compositing challenges in new and efficient ways. The new tools include 3D Particles (X), Planar Tracker (X), ?Denoise (X), NEW Spline and Grid Warping, performance improvements, Audio Scratch Track, User Presets, Displacement Shader, 3D Projection, Customisation enhancements and Deep Compositing.

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The Foundry’s NUKE 6.3 Is Live

The Foundry’s NUKE 6.3 Is Live:

Back in February, after I attended a NUKE Master Class in Brooklyn, I posted an article about the new planar tracker and other features coming in NUKE 6.3. Today, The Foundry started shipping the new version of its compositing software, which is quickly becoming an industry standard in visual effects studios here in the U.S. and abroad.
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