The Foundry SIGGRAPH Nuke User Group

The Foundry will be holding their Nuke User Group at SIGGRAPH on Monday, August 3rd. The event is being held at Le Petit Theater, beginning at 5pm and will include presentations by Nuke artists from Laika, Digital Domain and Blue Sky Studios. In addition, The Foundry team will be showing new developments and features in Nuke 5.2, Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0. They also plan to give a peek at Ocula 2 – the latest incarnation of their stereoscopic plug-in toolset for Nuke.

Space is limited…sign up to attend on their registration page. For more details about what is planned for the event, click through the read more link….

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Artists presenting at the user group meeting

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ari Rubenstein, Senior Compositor & Matt Wilson, Lighting TD
BLUE SKY STUDIOS

Blue Sky Studios will present a short documentary flm based upon the integration and evolution of Nuke on its latest feature “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”. The flm will showcase the development of a unique toolset which aided in the transition of compositing at Blue Sky Studios from a lesser, more secondary role, to a well planned, larger contribution to the flm.

Nuke in Commercials
Ben Fischler, Visual Effects Supervisor
LAIKA/house

Ben Fischler will discuss how LAIKA/house is using Nuke 5.1 in a fast-paced, quick-turnaround commercial production environment to complement existing post-production processes.  He will offer insights on how Nuke aided the post- production work in the creation of content for a collection of iconic brands and their different mediums.

Physically based lighting for Benjamin Button
Paul Lambert, Compositing Supervisor
DIGITAL DOMAIN

In the course of creating the Oscar-winning CG head for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Digital Domain’s compositors were challenged with seamlessly blending live action and CG. Lighting was particularly complex, as Benjamin is lit with candlelight, full sunlight, and everything in between. Compositing Supervisor Paul Lambert will describe the HDR pipeline he built from on-set data that included more than 100 different HDR setups, and demonstrate the physically- based lighting tools developed to generate automatic, photo- real results.