London, 23 November 2021 – Foundry, the leading developer of creative software for the media and entertainment industries, today announces the release of Nuke 13.1.
Nuke 13.1 is the latest release in the Nuke 13 series. This artist-focused update introduces a suite of user experience and workflow improvements designed to enhance artist productivity and accelerate the creative process for both artists and teams.
Nuke 13.1 continues the improvements to Nuke’s 3D system started in Nuke 13.0 with the Hydra Viewer. This release includes new 3D manipulators, new 3D hotkeys and other improvements which make it more enjoyable and faster for artists to work in Nuke’s 3D system. The node graph has a few new interactions as well, along with extensions to Cryptomatte. The Nuke Studio and Hiero Timeline also received several updates including an improved ability to copy soft effects from the Timeline and paste them into the Nuke script.
Videos:
• 3D User Experience
• ML Toolset improvements
• Timeline UX
• Cryptomatte / Encryptomatte
• Node Graph UX
• UnrealReader
• Copycat updates
• OCIOv2
• Timeline metadata
• BlackMagicRAW
• Monitor Out
This new release also includes some significant steps toward streaming artists’ workflows through reducing friction between Nuke and other tools in the pipeline. The new Unreal Reader makes it easy for artists to request the data they need from Unreal from within NukeX, enabling users to combine the speed and efficiency of real-time rendering with the flexibility and fine-grained control available in the composite. Whether Unreal Engine is being used alongside Nuke for previs, virtual production, or final pixel rendering of VFX and animation, Nuke’s Unreal Reader ensures that artists can work quickly and efficiently, bringing the power of NukeX to their real-time projects.
The machine learning toolset also receives an upgrade, with new support for third-party PyTorch models in the Inference, so artists can use a wide range of image-to-image PyTorch networks and package them into tools to share with their team.
Nuke Studio and Hiero continue to focus on review and collaboration with Annotations extended to work over Monitor Out and enhanced Timeline Metadata support ensures that data flows from Production right through to final delivery.
Additionally Nuke 13.1’s support for OCIOv2 and Blackmagic RAW, as well as the upcoming Nuke-Katana interoperability in Katana 5.0, make it easier to work with greater consistency across the pipeline.
Juan Salazar, Senior Product Manager – Timeline and Story, Foundry, comments:
About Nuke
Nuke® is an award-winning node-based compositing toolkit that gives artists the power and flexibility to create with confidence. Flexible, efficient, and feature-packed, this toolset delivers film-grade results fast, which makes it the perfect choice for compositors, lighters, and animators after a robust production-proven toolset for compositing VFX, editorial, and review.
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About Foundry
Foundry develops creative software for the digital design, media, and entertainment industries. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.
Clients and partners include major feature film studios and post-production houses such as Pixar, ILM, MPC, Walt Disney Animation, Weta Digital, DNEG, and Framestore as well as automotive, footwear, apparel and technology companies such as Mercedes, New Balance, Adidas and Google. Foundry partners with these companies to solve complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality.
The company’s products are used to create breathtaking visual effects sequences on a wide range of feature films, video-on-demand, television, and commercials. Foundry software was integral in the making of every VFX Oscar-winning film, award-winning TV shows, and commercials for more than a decade.
Founded in 1996, Foundry is headquartered in London, with over 300 employees and a presence in the US, China, Japan, Australia and Europe. In 2019, the London Stock Exchange named Foundry one of the “1000 Companies to Inspire Britain.” It regularly features in The Sunday Times’ Tech Track as one of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.
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“Our goal is to have our tools provide greater consistency across the different stages of production and make it easier for artists to work in the Nuke ecosystem, whether this means easier working in 3D or helping them connect other tools to Nuke so that they can see their work in context and accelerate their workflows. The timeline improvements in Nuke 13.1 help artists streamline their review sessions and Metadata support ensures data flows through to final delivery.”
To learn more about Nuke 13.1, visit the Nuke releases page.
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