At Digital Domain, the creative team were using a command-line script-based compositor to handle the more laborious work, alongside their expensive and-at the time-fixed-resolution Flame and Inferno systems. We caught up with Bill Spitzak, the original author of Nuke at Digital Domain, Simon Robinson, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Foundry, and Christy Anzelmo, Director of Product - Compositing and Finishing, to uncover the story of Nuke.Ī graduate of both the Computer Science program at MIT and USC School of Cinematic Arts, and with several years of software development already under his belt, Bill was perfectly placed in the early 90s to become one of the pioneers of the still adolescent CG industry.

With the recent release of Nuke 12.1, it seemed only fitting to look back at where it all started, and at the journey Foundry has taken over the years.

With a history of over 20 years, Nuke ® has long established itself as the industry-standard toolset for compositing, editorial and review.

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