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.

Workflow

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.

3D

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.

Speed

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.

Integration

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.

User Interface

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

Choice

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.