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and

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application first developed by

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and used for television and film

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. Nuke is available for

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(up to

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natively), and RHEL/

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has further developed the software since Nuke was sold in 2007. Nuke's users include

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, Illumination Mac Guff, Sony Pictures Imageworks,

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, Light Chaser Animation Studios, Framestore, Weta Digital,

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, and

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History

Nuke (the name deriving from 'New compositor') was originally developed by software engineer Phil Beffrey and later Bill Spitzak for in-house use at

beginning in 1993. In addition to standard compositing, Nuke was used to render higher-resolution versions of composites from

Autodesk Flame Autodesk Media and Entertainment is a division of Autodesk which offers animation and visual effects products, and was formed by the combination of multiple acquisitions. In 2018, the company began operating as a single operating segment and repo ...

. 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. Nuke won an

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for Technical Achievement in 2001. In 2002, Nuke was publicly released by D2 Software. In 2005, Nuke 4.5 introduced a new 3D subsystem developed by Jonathan Egstad. In 2007, The Foundry, a

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-based plug-in development company, took over development and marketing of Nuke from D2. The Foundry released Nuke 4.7 in June 2007, and Nuke 5 was released in early 2008, which replaced the interface with Qt and added Python scripting, and support for a

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workflow. In 2015, The Foundry released Nuke Non-commercial with some basic limitations. 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).

References

External links

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Sourceforge site for the OpenFX effects plug-in standard
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