Offering services including pre-visualisation, on-set supervision, visual effects design, character animation, digital compositing and matte painting, the 150 strong team at Rising Sun Pictures have been using NUKE on all their recent projects including Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, Michael Jackson's 'This is It', Terminator Salvation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
Michael Taylor, CEO at Rising Sun said:
“NUKE is proving to be a reliable and efficient addition to our toolset. Rising Sun's investment in a NUKE site license represents a solid commitment to the growth of the company, by enabling our team through the acquisition of the fastest and most flexible compositing software on the market. Its adoption by facilities around the world will mean that we will continue to attract the best talent to our company and can rely on solid support & feature development from The Foundry.”
Rising Sun Pictures joins a number of specialist VFX studios across Australia and New Zealand where NUKE licences are already in use including The Lab Finn Design + Effects, Animal Logic and Iloura. These developments compliment The Foundry’s recently announced collaboration with Weta Digital in New Zealand to commercialise the highly regarded 3D texture painting technology, Mari, that was heavily used on Avatar.
Bill Collis, CEO at The Foundry, commented:
“We are delighted with Rising Sun Pictures’ decision to invest in NUKE and the momentum and visibility that The Foundry is building amongst Australasia’s core leading visual effects software companies. These strategic investments in NUKE show that our product roadmap is instilling confidence and delivering tools that artists need in an increasingly competitive environment.”