Nuke in London

[nikita]

Hi,

I'm sure we have guys from MPC, Framestore or Dneg around on this board, so I'm curious which of the majors are currently using or are planning to use Nuke in the near future. Now that Shake is being phased out and a London company taking over Nuke development, I guess it's just a matter of time, right?

[Mainframe123]

I think double negative use nuke and shake. :)

I LOVE NUKE

[zanozza]

We are looking on Nuke... Maybe we will use it too, as our film departament...

[NEO]

And that would be where? =)


We are looking on Nuke... Maybe we will use it too, as our film departament...

[zanozza]

In VFX group + cinematic group...

[NEO]

HEhehe... I meant at what company...?


In VFX group + cinematic group...

[grafikus]

Sony Entertainment Europe I guess :-)

[zanozza]

Exactly! ;)

[jan_dee]

i just look forward to the day they switch to nuke, because shake gives me so much spare time (unfortunately at my desk)... it seems not to be easy after years of pipeline engineering to get rid of this crappy piece of software... :bomb:

J

[scwatman]

as far as i know none of the main vfx houses in london currently use nuke in their pipeline. I know of a few that are looking at it for the future. i dont think nuke will be the industry standard for sometime yet due to the amount of money companies have spent developing their shake pipelines.

[5sense]

where I'm we have an option to switch from shake to nuke..
btw i'm studying it by myself, its really powerfull.
I don't like so much the interface and another one thing,
I think nuke its very technically, doesn't mean hard to learn!
actually I prefer shake, its more artistically and user friendly.
btw..we will see..

[zanozza]

as far as i know none of the main vfx houses in london currently use nuke in their pipeline...

Framestore CFC is not "the main vfx house"?

[scwatman]

hence the "as far as i know" comment, maybe read it before making comments?

their web site says -
"We use Shake, Infernos, Flames, Henrys, Gips (our own invention!), Combustion, AfterEffects and Photoshop."

[jing]

Although development Shake has stopped, I've heard that the "new Shake" -- Phenomenon -- will be due out in 2008. It's supposed to be based upon Apple's Motion... not sure if that's good or bad. It will be interesting to see what Apple can and will do considering user expectations and the bar set by Original Shake, Nuke, Fusion, etc.

[scwatman]

bad................. its a bad idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freak]

I think The Mill was using or testing it too a while ago.

As for Apple's Phenomenon, I don't know but it might turn out to be a cool product. EDO uses GPU and it's kinda nice for a free software of it's size.

Also Apple has learned a bunch with Shake, and they still have the core of RayZ and Chalice which were both great. Not to mention that for a company of Apple's size it's really easy to find a partner among top notch VFX companies to help them develop and enhance the app once it's done.

[hugo_guerra]

Is Nuke really taking Shake´s place?

For me it is the most advance Compositor available right now, but Shake is hard to replace, are the US and EU FX houses starting to test and use Nuke in there pipelines?