Due to a change in relationship with Autodesk®, The Foundry has slashed their node-locked Furnace, Tinder & Keylight plug-in prices by over 80% with FREE BURN licenses.

Furnace GUI = $1000 / £650 + VAT
Tinder GUI = $1000 / £650 + VAT
Keylight GUI = $500 / £325 + VAT

To find out why read the press release.

Please note, this price reduction for January 2009 is for Autodesk plug-ins only.

Filmgate achieves international VFX ambitions with Nuke


© 2008 AB Svensk Filmindustri. Images courtesy of Filmgate.

"Nuke has been central to our FX pipeline since we opened in 2006. Because of its blazing speed of operation and rendering, it has been integral to our productivity too. All-in-all, Nuke helps to make us very competitive proposition in the VFX market. Whatever the production – a blockbuster feature film, TV drama or a commercial – we have the expertise, versatility and the technology to deliver cool effects on time and on budget." Fredrik Averpil, Co-Founder and VFX Supervisor, Filmgate.
Read the case study

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Brickyard VFX (Boston, USA)

“We'd heard about Nuke for years, but when we saw how well constructed the interface has become, along with the depth of the toolset, we pulled the trigger and ordered a dozen! Nuke is now the backbone of our film pipeline, and our happy crew are cranking out dozens of beautiful shots each week. It didn't take long for our compositors to get up to speed and the customer support folks at The Foundry have been really helpful throughout the whole process. As far as value goes, Nuke is worth many times what we paid.“ Dave Waller, Brickyard VFX.

Speed Racer


© Warner Bros. All rights reserved.

"I am very impressed with Nuke's abilities, particularly within our internal VFX Team's pipeline. We have definitely pushed further than I thought was possible with Nuke’s 3D abilities". Jake Morrison, VFX Supervisor, Warner Bros.
Read how Jake used Nuke on Speed Racer.

EyeQube adopts Nuke at NAB


"EyeQube is proud to be using Nuke and we will be happy to show the world what India can really do with it during the next year.” Read more. Charles Darby, Creative Director.

Lafourmi - addicted to Nuke


"Nuke is a vital part of our pipeline here at Lafourmi. After migrating to Nuke, only 5 months ago, all artists at lafourmi are already addicted to this powerful product." Sascha Schmidt, Co-Owner and Head of Compositing. Read the case study

FX PHD's Compositor's Guide to Nuke Now Online

Renowned providers of online training for VFX professionals - Fxphd – have teamed up with The Foundry to bring you ‘The Compositor’s Guide To Nuke’.

fxphd.com professor, Sean Devereaux, takes you through the core elements of this powerful compositing application in this on-line training programme.

NCCA buy 40 Nukes


Image courtesy of NCCA

Jonathan Macey, senior lecturer in Computer Animation says, "Looking at the longer-term picture, we have to give industry what it needs...Nuke will play a significant part in that." Read more about how the NCCA is using Nuke.

Killer Tools for Sweeney Todd

"Keylight and Furnace plug-ins are very valuable to us in our day-to-day work,” says Marian Mavrovic, Compositing Supervisor at MPC. “They are standard tools we use to tackle all sorts of challenges that come to us in the compositing department and they helped us a great deal on Sweeney Todd”. Read the Sweeney Todd case study.


©DreamWorks, Paramount and Warner Bros. Images courtesy of MPC.

Halloween release for Ocula

Ocula is a unique collection of plug-in tools that solve common problems with stereoscopic imagery, boost productivity in post production, and ultimately help to deliver a more rewarding stereoscopic viewing experience.

Read more about Ocula.

Nuke 5.1 Now Shipping

Nuke 5.1 has been released. It includes a personal learning edition (PLE), runs natively on Linux 64 and Windows 64 and has support for the FBX standard for 3D interchange. More...

Blue Sky adopt Nuke to tackle Ice Age 3


© Fox, courtesy of Blue Sky Studios.

"Blue Sky Studios recently migrated our entire compositing work-flow to Nuke. We are enjoying the integration of this next-level compositor into our pipeline. During our past feature "Horton Hears A Who", Nuke's 3D workspace was used to great efficiency and continues to be expanded by our R&D developers. Thanks again to The Foundry's development team for all your efforts." Ari Rubenstein, Finish Compositor, Blue Sky Studios.

Monkey Business


King Kong © 2005 Universal Studios
"Once again The Foundry have delivered an amazing digital tool set. Furnace has become an integral part of Weta Digital's production pipeline." Matt Welford, Compositing Sequence Lead at Weta Digital. Read the full testimonial.

Animal Logic Migrates to Nuke

"...Nuke is so fast and efficient, the transition from 2D to 3D is really quite slick and we’ve not yet come across anything that has made it fall over.” Xavier Desdoigts, Director Of Technical Operations at Animal Logic. Read the full release

Nuke and Furnace Bring Speed and Precision To Mr X’s VFX Process


Photo courtesy of Mr. X Inc. ©2007 Screen Gems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Read the case study.

Brickyard use Tinder on Hummer


Images courtesy of Brickyard VFX.
Read about this and more in the Case Study.

Keylight for Fusion

Keylight 2.0v3 for Fusion 5.3 (32 bit) is available to download now. Read more.

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Latest news

  • 5 Jan 2009, Furnace, Keylight and Tinder for Autodesk FFIS with free burns now released.
  • 2 Dec 2008, Tinderbox 1, 2, 3 for Nuke now released.
  • 21 Nov 2008, a maintenance release of Tinderbox is available for After Effects CS4.
  • 19 Nov 2008, Keylight 2.0v2 has been released for FCP.
  • 19 Nov 2008, Furnace 4.0v2 has been released for FCP.
  • 19 Nov 2008, Furnace 3.0v6 has been released for Autodesk.
  • 31 Oct 2008, Ocula plug-ins for Nuke now available to download.
  • 27 Oct 2008, Plug-ins for Avid DS v10 now available to download.

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