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. Being a young and fast growing post house in Germany, the people at lafourmi need to rely on a compositing tool that’s free of bottlenecks and stuffed with clever code. Good compositors and 3D artists appreciate a small but flexible bag of nodes to create good comps. Nuke lets you break down even the biggest VFX shot into its smallest, simplest components. And the other great aspect of Nuke is to have it developed by a company that´s notorious for the best Swiss knives in digital compositing: Furnace, Keylight and Tinder." Sascha Schmidt, Co-Owner and Head of Compositing. www.lafourmi.de

We Need Your Help

Nathalie Bergeron, Director of Customer Relations here at The Foundry, currently has a very serious family situation. On the 17 February, Nathalie's sister Marilyn went for a walk in Quebec City and never returned. Since then Nathalie and her family have worked tirelessly with police, media, community, and friends in an attempt to find clues that will lead to her location. They are still searching. You'll find a web site here www.findmarilyn.com and a version in French www.trouvermarilyn.com with photographs and information about her disappearance.

Please help Nathalie and her family by increasing awareness and passing this information and these links on to anyone and everyone you know in Canada. Thank you for your support.

National Centre for Computer Animation

Bournemouth University's National Centre for Computer Animation recently purchased 40 additional Nuke licenses enabling around 60 students to graduate with Nuke compositing experience. 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.

Moonbuggy

Brickyard VFX recently used Tinder plug-ins on a number of commercials, including a spot for Hummer. The client wanted a shot of the 4x4 driving on the moon and lead VFX artist, Jimi Simmons, dipped into the Tinder toolkit to add stars and colour correct the South Africa backdrop to get the right look.

Images courtesy of Brickyard VFX.

Read more about this Hummer commercial together with Tinder's CopyFlicker being used to match luma variations across three shots for Merrill Lynch and Tinder's Median, Tint and Beam on a 2007 NHL playoff promo. Case Study - Brickyard.

Furnace for Fusion

Furnace 4.0v2 for Fusion 5.21 is available to download now.

Taking advantage of over seven years' research into advanced image processing algorithms, notably motion estimation technology, Furnace has a wealth of tools to quickly and effectively tackle a diverse range of everyday compositing tasks. Wire, rig and flicker removal, a world class retimer, grain reduction, dust busting, image stabilisation, auto rotoscoping and image segmentation. For more information please contact us.

Furnace Has The Right Focus For Evil Eye Pictures

Furnace, which includes more than 40 image processing plug-ins, is a "utility tool" at Evil Eye, employed on nearly every project that comes in the door. Recently twenty-five compositors and paint/roto artists put the tools to work on Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (aka Pirates 3). Read the Evil Eye case study.

©2007 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer, Inc. Images courtesy of Evil Eye and Industrial Light & Magic.

Monkey Business

"Once again The Foundry have delivered an amazing digital tool set. Furnace has become an integral part of Weta Digital's production pipeline, and the introduction of Furnace 3 into that pipeline has confirmed its value to our work." Matt Welford, Compositing Sequence Lead at Weta Digital. Read the full testimonial.

King Kong © 2005 Universal Studios