The first major Foundry version of Nuke came in 2008 with 5.0, which saw the addition of Python for scripting, support for stereoscopic workflows, the ability to read, process and write more than 1000 channels per stream and support for EXR images. Back page from the D2 brochure.Ī major change took place when Foundry (then, The Foundry) productized Nuke in 2007. The front page of a D2 brochure from NAB in 2005. That same year, Digital Domain started D2 Software with the aim of developing and selling Nuke and other software it meant, of course, that Nuke became available to the public. In 2002, Nuke was recognized with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical achievement (Academy Plaque) awarded to Bill Spitzak, Paul Van Camp, Jonathan Egstad, and Price Pethel. Then, Nuke received an architectural re-design, which heralded the development of the famous 3D system inside the software. But it could do transforms and blur and sharpen filters and color corrections, and composites.”Ī GUI was introduced in version 2 of Nuke (which hit around 1994), which was built with an in-house GUI toolkit at Digital Domain called FLTK. In this Nukepedia interview, Spitzak mentions that version one of Nuke used “fixed-sized buffers and a command line. At first, it was a command line run tool. Nuke (meaning ‘New compositor’) began development in 1993 by Phil Beffrey and later Bill Spitzak at Digital Domain, where it was employed for internal use. Nuke at Digital Domain Nuke at Digital Domain Note: for good background information on Nuke, I would highly recommend Nukepedia and fxguide, which have provided extensive coverage of the software for many years. I would note there have been a number of crucial contributors to Nuke over the years and I have not tried to list these people since I would no doubt leave some of them out.

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