NUKE: A Commercial Success
Increasing numbers of our customers are putting NUKE through its paces on commercial projects. In fact, three of this year's VES award-winning commercials were completed, at least in part, in NUKE.
We asked the artists behind the winning projects to describe their experiences with NUKE.
Citroen 'Spacebox'
"We've been using NUKE as our main compositing tool at Mikros Image for almost 4 years on all types of productions including commercials. NUKE is the most powerful, fast and complete compositing package available. Our clients always demand the highest level of creative content and Nuke enables us to exceed those expectations.
"NUKE has a large range of flexible and easy to use tools, but what I love most is the 3D environment which allows you to project and set up incredible 3D Matt paintings. The only things that don't come with Nuke are a good pair of eyes and personal creativity…"
Julien Dias, Digital compositor, Mikros Image.
Watch Mikros Image's breakdown and the finished spot.
Cadbury 'Spots & Stripes'
“Using NUKEX in our commercials pipeline has allowed us to integrate with 3D more and more. We can share workloads in a more creative manner, getting the best out of both parties.
Having a camera tracker, relighting tools, 3D viewer and NUKE's speed has enabled us to create shots that wouldn’t have been possible in a commercials schedule before.”
Michael Gregory, Visual Effects Supervisor, MPC.
Read more and watch the finished commercial here. There is also a VFX breakdown available to download from MPC's website.
Halo: Reach 'Deliver Hope'
"The compositing tasks on 'Deliver Hope' were easily as complex as those on many high-end VFX intensive feature films. Shots included well over 30 separate layers including portions of live action, matte paintings, 2D and 3D CGI.
"The Method team mainly ran the compositing through The Foundry's NUKE package because of its powerful 3D functionality. Scene cameras and geometry were imported from the 3D team and used to place elements into the scene, project 2D textures and elements onto scene geometry and in some cases full shots were designed and laid out in NUKE using 3D cameras. The process helped spread the heavy workload much more evenly between the 2D and 3D teams."
Dan Glass, Visual Effects Supervisor, Method Studios.
You can watch the extended version of the spot here.
Want to see more?
This is a reel made up of lots of amazing work by customers using NUKE on episodic television and commercial projects. A big thank you to them all for letting us feature their work.
Music: 'Intro' by Alan Braxe (c) Vulture Music.
We're currently updating our reel, so if you've got something you'd like to submit email marketing@thefoundry.co.uk.