A huge announcement from the Visual Effects industry today, Sony Pictures Imageworks will work with Foundry to combine their proprietary technologies. Imageworks is bringing their proprietary lighting software “Katana” to the table, while Foundry is of course bringing their compositing system “Nuke”. But the deal won’t benefit just the two of them:
Bill Collis, CEO of the Foundry, told Daily Variety: “The most likely course is (Katana) will be integrated into Nuke over time. Nothing dramatic is going to happen in the short term, but over a period of years, we’ll incorporate these Katana technologies into Nuke.”
A new version of Nuke including Furnace plugins and features is expected before year’s end.
via Imageworks tools deal with Foundry – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety.
