Nuke is a powerful compositing product that delivers unparalleled speed and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market.

If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is the production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline. Nuke solves real problems faced by post production facilities and visual effects artists all over the world.

Nuke's flexible node-based approach, native multi-channel workflow and powerful integrated 3D compositing environment delivers on the creative vision of the most forward-thinking commercial, music video, television and film directors.

Nuke began as the in-house compositing and effects software at Digital Domain, brought together by a team of highly talented engineers and visual effects artists to meet the growing requirements of a world-leading post production facility. The Foundry remains committed to the original concept of developing a compositing application designed by artists for artists.

Use multi-channel, multi-view, high dynamic range compositing with the industry's broadest support for multi-channel EXR images to experience improvements in productivity and data management.

Nuke's powerful and fully integrated 3D environment enables flexible combination of 2D and 3D workflows and exciting new ways to approach compositing and visual effects challenges.

Even when processing super high resolution footage at the highest 32-bit floating point precision on modest hardware, Nuke's multi-threaded, scanline-based rendering engine gives rapid artist feedback and accurate results.

Nuke fits perfectly into VFX pipelines and makes it easy for artists to customise and tightly integrate new tools. The control of processing and the user interface uses standard Python scripting, or artists can drill down to the industry standard OFX image processing plug-in API and the in-depth NDK Nuke developers kit.

Saveable layouts, customisation capabilities and quick navigation features make managing large, complex composites easier than ever.

Nuke is available on Windows®, Linux® and Mac OS X® – all at equal cost. Licenses float across operating systems, so every artist can work where they are most comfortable and creative and offline batch rendering can be at its most efficient.

The features inside NUKEX add up to deliver a compositing solution which is much more than just the sum of its parts.

NUKEX has all the essential features of NUKE extended with an integrated 3D camera tracker, depth generator, tools for automatic lens distortion correction and FURNACECORE, the nucleus of The Foundry's Academy Award©-winning FURNACE technology.

NUKEX gives artists greater creative freedom through an integrated workflow, dramatically increasing the efficiency of core compositing tasks. The extended tools within NUKEX allow artists to work efficiently, interactively and in context of the visual effects process - not easy with a separate stand-alone application.

Direct access to the scene and camera geometry provided by the camera tracker can dramatically increase the efficiency and accuracy of core compositing tasks, such as the 3D scene reconstruction, texture re-projection, animated rotoscoping and clean plate generation

FURNACECORE and the automatic lens analysis increase productivity by automating some fo the relatively pedestrian tasks, leaving artists free to concentrate on more creative work - tasks such as wire and rig removal, retiming, noise and grain removal and matching CGI with live action material.

MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

MARI has a creative toolset which puts many stand-alone 2D paint systems to shame, allowing artists to concentrate on painting. The user interface is responsive and fluid. You can paint directly on to models and view the results immediately. Save time and take texturing way beyond what was previously possible.

MARI's unrivalled ability to deal with colossal textures in vast numbers allows their development in intense detail

Save time and money by seeing the results of your work immediately. Cut down on revisions. Wave goodbye to the paint, render, review, rinse, repeat cycle of old. Load all the textures for a model into MARI simultaneously and remove the need to split up models.

A creative painting toolset second to none, focused on the artists' needs. With a paintbrush engine finessed under intense production pressure, MARI releases artists from arbitrary restraints and allows them to work naturally with the model.

In VFX work, context is everything. What the model will look like in motion, from multiple angles and against the background plate, is critical. MARI lets the artists see the model in context and paint on it right there.

Textures channels need to change over time. Whether it is a blushing maiden or scratched and dented armour, animating textures are a crucial part of what makes a model appear real. MARI lets you animate and paint your texture channels frame by frame.

Efficient Integration into a complex workflow turns a great product into a powerhouse. MARI has an open and extensible approach to UI, geometry, cameras and shading, and runs on Linux. It supports colour management, light and texture change, while import and export happen in the background.

A clear and intuitive user interface allows artists to focus on what is important. User-configurable tool shelves allow them to organise their workspace efficiently, and a customisable real-time 3D shader lets them see what they're doing.

MARI comes from the Swahili Maridadi meaning both 'beautiful' and also carrying connotations of 'usefulness'.

OCULA is a unique collection of plug-in tools that solve common problems with stereoscopic imagery, boost productivity in post production, and ultimately help to deliver a more rewarding stereoscopic viewing experience.

The plug-ins are designed to automatically replicate key processes on left and right channels and help artists polish and refine stereoscopic material, literally, removing headaches from the final viewing experience.

OCULA 2.0, created by The Foundry's Sci-Tech Award-winning R&D team, has considerable workflow improvements to better control the calibration of stereo sequences, as well as new algorithms to perform image corrections and disparity map generation. The toolset also gains additional functionality with the ability to generate disparity maps from CG depth maps, and depth maps from live-action stereo footage.

OCULA 2.1 adds the DisparityViewer node, allowing easy visualisation of disparity vectors, a range of improvements for dealing with footage from mirror rigs, multi-sampling for a general increase in visual quality and a host of other improvements.

Disparity maps track and correlate the differences in positional space and movement between corresponding pixels in the left and right cameras, delivering pixel-level control over images. Knowing where disparities occur, OCULA tools apply corrections by warping, stretching and squeezing only the areas of an image that require treatment. Image manipulation using disparity maps is different from the X, Y or Z-axis shifting of images, where only whole image planes are being shifted

OCULA plug-ins allow artists to apply a multitude of adjustments to stereo image pairs. All corrections can be made to the left and right eye channels either together or separately, minimising or eliminating discomfort from the stereo viewing experience.

"Ocula is at the very heart of the new post-production tools that have emerged to deal with stereo. Nuke and Ocula were used extensively on Avatar, and we explore the lessons learned with Simon Robinson, Chief Scientist of the Foundry. Ocula, in particular, is a real partnership between filmmakers on the cutting edge and the UK software developer.

KEYLIGHT is an award-winning production-proven blue and green screen keyer. KEYLIGHT is simple to use and is particularly good at tackling reflections, semi-transparent areas and hair. Because spill suppression is built in, often selecting the screen colour is all you need to do to extract the matte and seat the foreground into the background so it looks photographed rather than composited.

KEYLIGHT has been refined over the years to make keying quicker and easier, whilst providing a depth to the tools that will tackle even the most challenging shots. The plug-in comes with a suite of tools to erode, soften, despot and otherwise manipulate the matte should the need arise, as well as the inclusion of separate colour correction, suppression and edge correction tools to fine-tune the result.

KEYLIGHT has undergone many improvements here at The Foundry. However, the original KEYLIGHT algorithm was developed by the Computer Film Company (now Framestore) and has been utilised over the years on hundreds of projects including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Sherlock Holmes, 2012, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Percy Jackson, GI Joe and Clash of the Titans.

KEYLIGHT seamlessly integrates with some of the world's leading compositing and editing systems, including Autodesk Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Fusion, NUKE, Shake and Final Cut Pro. KEYLIGHT is also bundled with Adobe After Effects.

FURNACE is a sophisticated suite of 2D image processing plug-ins designed to enhance workflow and boost productivity for digital artists.

Taking advantage of over seven years' research into advance image processing algorithms, notably motion estimation technology, FURNACE provides digital visual effects artists with a wealth of tools to quickly and effectively tackle a diverse range of everyday compositing tasks.

Wire, rig and flicker removal, a world-class retimer, grain reduction, dust-busting, image stabilisation, auto rotoscoping, image segmentation and much more, FURNACE features a whole host of plug-ins which you'll find yourself using on a daily basis.

The FURNACE development team were honoured with a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their roles in the design and development of FURNACE. The academy considered the FURNACE toolset's modularity, flexibility and robustness to have set a high standard of quality for optical flow based image manipulation.

FURNACE seamlessly integrates with some of the world's leading compositing and editing systems including Autodesk Media and Entertainment Systems, NUKE and Shake.