Weta Digital has bought a site license for Nuke, the compositing software application created by The Foundry, and will incorporate it into the company’s in-house pipeline.
The New Zealand-based visual effects house, founded in 1993 to create effects for Peter Jackson’s film Heavenly Creatures, has won five Oscars for visual effects and worked on such successful films as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, I, Robot, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Jumper.
The Foundry, based in the United Kingdom, has created such industry standard applications as Nuke and Furnace, and its products are in use at such major visual effects houses as Digital Domain, The Moving Picture Co., Framestore, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
‘Our long-standing relationship with The Foundry and our faith in their product development, support and focus on producing a truly useful artist tool set, have given us the confidence to make this investment,’ said Paul Ryan, chief technology officer at Weta Digital. ‘We have a lot of challenges ahead and are looking forward to seeing the difference that Nuke makes to our workflow.’
