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The Foundry annonce la sortie de NUKE 7.0 incorporant entre autres :

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Noeuds accélérés par le GPU comme les fréquemment utilisés MotionBlur, Kronos, Denoise, VectorGenerator, Convolve et ZDefocus.
Pour la partie 3D le ReLight et ModelBuilder pourront nous être utilises dans la version NUKEX.
Support de formats RAW pour la Alexa ARRIRAW et le dernier SDK R3D.
Primatte 5
Un nouveau 2D tracker
SplineWarp & Dopesheet ont été revus

Disponible bientôt pour Windows et OSX.

TheFoundry Nuke & NukeX 6.3v4 disponible en téléchargement à cette adresse : http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nukex/product-downloads/ pour Linux, Windows et Mac. OSX Lion n'est toujours pas officiellement supporté.

Les notes de cette release sont disponibles dans ce PDF à ce lien

The Foundry montrera la semaine prochaine, au NAB 2011, les nouvelles fonctionnalités du prochain Storm, Mari 1.3, Nuke & NukeX 6.3 (nouvelles splines, grid warpers, 3d particles, planar tracker, denoiser, piste audio scratch track, deep 3d compositing ...), et une preview de Katana.

Retrouvez The Foundry au stand SL5625 du 11 au 14 Avril au NAB, Las Vegas.

London, January 4th, 2011 – Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), today provided an insight into its plans for KATANA.

KATANA is an environment for preparing 3D assets for rendering. It allows artists to define and control look and lighting whilst maintaining performance with very large datasets. KATANA operates non-destructively using a rule-based approach, allowing modeling, look development, animation and lighting teams to work in parallel.

Originally developed in house at Sony Pictures Imageworks to handle increasingly complex workflows on productions such as Spider-Man and Superman Returns, the commercial development of KATANA was taken on by The Foundry in November 2009 as part of a unique collaboration between the two companies.

The Foundry's engineering effort, in consultation with a broad range of users, is ensuring KATANA becomes a flexible product that can ultimately integrate with any pipeline and any renderer in any facility.
These consultations have now developed into much more in-depth collaborations with a number of key sites including MPC and Digital Domain who are now using KATANA in alpha.

“Since Inception KATANA has been one of the pillars of the production pipeline here at Imageworks and continues to prove itself on such rigorous productions as G-Force, Watchmen, Alice in Wonderland and animated features such as Monster House, Surf’s Up, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs."

“We are excited to see KATANA cutting its teeth outside the halls of Imageworks and becoming available for artists and facilities everywhere.  The Foundry is a tremendous partner and by broadening the adoption of KATANA and product support, a new generation of artists and productions can benefit from this innovative production-proven technology.”
Rob Bredow, Chief Technology Officer, Sony Pictures Imageworks

"Many brilliant technical innovations come out of production, but historically those breakthroughs remain only within the production company.  The Foundry works with digital studios to make those innovations widespread, which benefits the entire industry.  I look for KATANA to have a similar impact on the industry that Nuke has achieved."
Cliff Plumer, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Domain.

"Like most large VFX studios, we maintain a complex suite of proprietary software to enable us to render ever increasing complexity, quantity and visual quality. We are excited about KATANA's potential to offer a solid, flexible, off-the-shelf foundation that we can build upon so that we can focus more of our efforts on what we do best, pushing the boundaries of CG, trusting The Foundry to do what they do best, delivering high quality, scalable software."
Davie Johnston, Director of Technology, MPC

As the first commercial dedicated scene development tool, KATANA will enable facilities large and small to build highly scalable lighting pipelines without a large internal engineering effort.

KATANA is scheduled for commercial release in 2011.

La société Red Giant vient de rendre disponible le fameux plugin Particular, cette fois pour The Foundry Nuke, après le grand succès du plugin sur After Effects.

"Particular for Nuke will move you immediately into a powerful and creative workflow. Particular is used widely in motion pictures such as Spider Man 3, Terminator: Salvation and Angels & Demons and in TV shows like Lost. Its realistic natural effects have long solved common visual effects challenges, like photo-realistic rain, snow, clouds, smoke trails and sparks.

Steve Wright, master trainer for Nuke and VFX compositing, comments, "At last, Red Giant has closed the particle system gap for NUKE by introducing Trapcode Particular for NUKE. After years as the definitive particle system for Adobe After Effects, a 64-bit version has been ported to NUKE to add photorealistic particle effects to NUKE's palette. Particular for NUKE is an absolutely essential addition to any serious visual effects studio.""

Regardez le tutorial expliquant l'utilisation de Particular au sein de Nuke ici

Et profitez d'informations supplémentaires (news, achat, téléchargement de version de démo) ici
Particular est disponible pour $699

"GFX Hotkeys is the ultimate tool for Graphics Designers, Visual Effects Artists, Compositors, 3D Animators, Video Editors and Photographers.

It includes all the shortcut keys for After Effects, Cinema 4D, Final Cut, Maya, Photoshop, Flame, Smoke, Nuke, Illustrator, 3ds Max, Archicad, PFTrack, SynthEyes, Revit, XSI and Fusion, organized by category, with build in search functionality for easy access to any shortcut key you may need.

Features:

• Includes all shortcut keys for the latest versions of After Effects, Cinema 4D, Final Cut, Maya, Photoshop, Flame, Smoke, Nuke, Illustrator, 3ds Max, Archicad, PFTrack, SynthEyes, Revit, XSI and Fusion

• Hotkeys are organized by category.

• Search engine to search through hotkeys. Search results organized by category.

• All shortcut keys included for every available platform.

• Easy color coded theme for each application, to visually identify where you are.

• Retina Display Graphics"

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), today announced that Global Visual Entertainment Services group, Prime Focus, has purchased a site license of Nuke to revamp their in-house pipeline.

 Since its modest beginnings in Mumbai in 1997, Prime Focus has grown into the world’s leading Visual Entertainment Services group, employing over 1,200 staff across three continents and five timezones.  Their pioneering and unique ‘Global Digital Pipeline’ approach has seen them win VFX work on titles including Robin Hood, Avatar and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, as well as numerous commercial and television projects.

 Anshul Doshi, Global COO at Prime Focus, comments:

"Nuke’s open infrastructure, forward thinking roadmap, support and proactive engineering team will enable true integration of the software into our ‘Global Digital Pipeline’.  The inherent stereoscopic workflow and proven track record of use on Avatar increased Nuke’s attractiveness given our upcoming project slate.  The Foundry push boundaries, listen to customers and invest in research making them a perfect partner for Prime Focus as we move forward tackling increasingly ambitious projects.”

Bill Collis, CEO of The Foundry, commented, "Prime Focus are an exceptional company with a unique Global approach.  Their decision to incorporate Nuke across London, India (Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Goa), Vancouver, LA and Winnipeg gives them an unrivalled geographical footprint.  We are excited to be working with them and look forward to seeing where the relationship takes us.”

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