Nuke (software)

Nuke

Developer(s)	The Foundry
Stable release	6.3v4
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Type	Compositing software
License	Proprietary
Website	Nuke

Nuke is a node-based compositor produced by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production. Nuke is cross-platform, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Nuke's users include Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Mr X, Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic, and Nuke has been used on productions such as Avatar, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, King Kong, Jumper, I, Robot, Resident Evil: Extinction, Tron: Legacy and Black Swan.^{[citation needed]}

History

Nuke (the name deriving from 'new compositor')^[1] was originally developed by Bill Spitzak of Digital Domain for in-house use beginning in 1993. Nuke used the FLTK toolkit, which was developed in-house at Digital Domain and was subsequently released under the GNU LGPL in 1998.^[2]

Nuke won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2001.^[3]

In 2002, Nuke was made available to the public for the first time under the banner of D2 Software.^[4][5] In December 2005, D2 Software released Nuke 4.5,^[6] which introduced a new 3D subsystem.

In 2007, The Foundry, a London-based plug-in development house, took over development and marketing of Nuke from D2.^[7] The Foundry released Nuke 4.7 in June 2007,^[8] and Nuke 5 was released in early 2008, which replaced the interface with Qt and added Python scripting, and support for a stereoscopic workflow.^[9] Nuke supports use of The Foundry plug-ins via its support for the OpenFX standard.

References

1. ^ "D2 Software: Company Profile". Computer Graphics World. August 1, 2004. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-12897444.html. 
2. ^ Spitzak, Bill (January 19, 1998). "fltk-0.98 (C++ gui toolkit)". http://groups.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.announce/msg/f092644cb0af5e7a?dmode=source. 
3. ^ "2001 Scientific and Technical Awards". March 2002. http://www.oscars.org/scitech/2001/winners.html. 
4. ^ "Digital Domain Nukes market". Hollywood Reporter. July 12, 2002. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1540884. 
5. ^ ""Digital Domain launches software unit"". AllBusiness.com. 2002-10-10. http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4862009-1.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
6. ^ "D2 ships Nuke v4.5 Compositor with image-based Keyer and new Interface.". December 1, 2005. http://features.cgsociety.org/story.php?story_id=3271. 
7. ^ "D2 Software's Nuke Acquired by The Foundry". March 10, 2007. http://www.fxguide.com/article407.html. 
8. ^ "Nuke Version 4.7 Released". fxguide.com. October 4, 2007. http://www.fxguide.com/qt/49/nuke-version-47-released. 
9. ^ "3D stereo workflow, new U/I & Python scripting are the highlights". Digital Producer Magazine. 14 September, 2007. http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=183309. 

External links

• Official product page
• Sourceforge site for the OpenFX effects plug-in standard