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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 15.1
Nuke 15.1 delivers future-facing pipeline tools, with OpenAssetIO, full OTIO round-trip support, and custom USD versions. Plus BlinkScript updates, improved Review, CopyCat training, and more for greater artist control.
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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
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.
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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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FILM.
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!
VFX.
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!
FILM.
Gregor Puchatz — Aaron Sims Creative, CG supervisor
Nuke Studio is a backbone for us because it communicates with every part of the studio.
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Students
Learn the same tools used by the best VFX artists in the industry, at 90% off the commercial prices and take advantage of our First Year Free program.
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Non-commercial
Get access to free, non-watermarked versions of Nuke, NukeX and even top-of-the-line Nuke Studio for as long as you like, so you can learn, explore and have fun on your own schedule.
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Nuke Indie
Combining industry-leading node-based compositing with formidable speed, power and flexibility, Nuke Indie is the ultimate tool for solo artists wanting to create high-quality visual effects, at an accessible price.
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Explore the Nuke Family
Take a look at the other products in the Nuke family and find the one that best suits your needs.
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All the features of Nuke plus even more advanced tools so you can take your compositing to the next level.
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Combining the power of NukeX and Hiero into one toolset for more streamlined multi-shot management, editorial, composting and review.
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The ultimate node-based compositing toolset at an accessible price.
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Seamlessly review dynamic timelines with an intuitive editorial toolkit for all your multi-shot management, conform, editorial and review needs.
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Desktop review tool allowing you to review shots in context and compare render versions quickly.
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