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Compositing and VFX program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nuke is a node-based digital compositing and visual effects application first developed by Digital Domain and used for television and film post-production. Nuke is available for Windows, macOS (up to Monterey natively), and RHEL/CentOS.[2] Foundry has further developed the software since Nuke was sold in 2007.
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| Stable release | 15.0
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| Written in | C++,[1] Python |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Compositing software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | NUKE |
Nuke's users include Digital Domain, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Blizzard Entertainment,[3] DreamWorks Animation,[4] Illumination Mac Guff,[5] Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Light Chaser Animation Studios, Framestore,[6] Weta Digital,[7] Double Negative,[8] and Industrial Light & Magic.[9]
Nuke (the name deriving from 'New compositor')[10] was originally developed by software engineer Phil Beffrey and later Bill Spitzak for in-house use at Digital Domain beginning in 1993. In addition to standard compositing, Nuke was used to render higher-resolution versions of composites from Autodesk Flame.[11]
Nuke version 2 introduced a GUI in 1994, built with FLTK – an in-house GUI toolkit developed at Digital Domain. FLTK was subsequently released under the GNU LGPL in 1998.[12]
Nuke won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2001.[13]
In 2002, Nuke was publicly released by D2 Software.[14][15] In 2005, Nuke 4.5[16] introduced a new 3D subsystem developed by Jonathan Egstad.[17]
In 2007, The Foundry, a London-based plug-in development company, took over development and marketing of Nuke from D2.[18] The Foundry released Nuke 4.7 in June 2007,[19] and Nuke 5 was released in early 2008, which replaced the interface with Qt and added Python scripting, and support for a stereoscopic workflow.[20] In 2015, The Foundry released Nuke Non-commercial with some basic limitations.[21] Nuke supports use of The Foundry plug-ins via its support for the OpenFX standard (several built-in nodes such as Keylight are OpenFX plugins).
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