{"id":1120,"date":"2013-04-09T00:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2013-07-06T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T21:45:14","slug":"the-foundry-releases-assist-for-nukex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"The Foundry Releases Assist for NukeX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cat_in_Computerzzz\"<\/a>With the release of NukeX 7.0v6, the Foundry is including two copies of it’s new Assist<\/strong> product, a stripped down version of Nuke that only “includes tools for the tasks of roto, paint, and tracking.”<\/p>\n

This is a value added move to try to make the pricing hit of a NukeX license a bit more easy to swallow for smaller shops. \u00a0Historically, companies like Eyeon offered limited versions of their software (in that case, “Rotation” to compliment Fusion) with the hopes of unseating Flame and the \u00a0Flame assistant’s license of Flint\/Flare\/Combustion\/Silhouette\/AE in commercial heavy pipelines. \u00a0On a base level, it makes a lot of sense to parcel these out when even boutique VFX shops have departmentalized paint\/roto aside from compositing.\u00a0 Why have a bazooka like NukeX aimed at a molehill?\u00a0 And perhaps Diet Nuke\/Nuke Lite\/Nuke Dime\/Nuke Nuked (I could go on…) is a good way to boost the amount of firepower you can throw at a shot, and give the powers that be one less excuse to pony up some extra NukeX coin.<\/p>\n

Offering Assist has immediate value for the company pocketbook when it comes to frame by frame type work, but from the artist standpoint there’s not much to know or get excited about here. \u00a0Assist is highly crippled and quickly deteriorates for higher level tasks, and as is, there will probably be a juggling act associated with using it in production. \u00a0SplineWarp was not included in the toolset, nor were any 3D tools for geometry assisted paint work, which is to be expected – but that’s the bread and butter area of most higher level artists. \u00a0In fact, not even the Grade node was included – which, as you can imagine, makes it hard to grab a clone source from another frame or do any sort of relighting to your paint work. \u00a0I can’t think of the last paint shot I had that didn’t have a grade node. \u00a0Assist can open any Nuke script, and unsupported nodes will render but be outlined in red and their controls grayed out. \u00a0Write nodes are disabled in Assist.<\/p>\n

For this to have real value outside of a press release, The Foundry might want to rethink the scope of what it’s definition of especially paint includes – but worth noting that this wasn’t beta tested widely and should be considered a v1.0 release. \u00a0The Foundry may decide to change what’s offered in the toolset based on initial reaction. \u00a0In my opinion, they also have a couple of line items out of whack as far as what’s offered in NukeX vs. regular Nuke, like GPU accelerated rendering. \u00a0But hopefully these things will iron out given more time to digest. \u00a0Ahhh, whatever… \u00a0 whaddya gonna do… \u00a0 \u00a0 it’s “free.”<\/p>\n

For more info, catch the press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nodes included in this initial Assist toolset:<\/p>\n

\"Did<\/a>

Did someone say Assist?\u00a0 Dame can help with that.<\/p><\/div>\n

Image<\/strong><\/p>\n

Checkerboard ColorBars ColorWheel Constant
\nRead Viewer<\/p>\n

Draw
\n<\/strong>Radial Ramp Rectangle Roto\u00a0RotoPaint<\/span><\/p>\n

Time<\/strong>
\nFrameBlend FrameHold FrameRange TimeEcho
\nTimeOffset
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Channel<\/strong>
\nAdd Copy ChannelMerge Remove
\nShuffle ShuffleCopy
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Color<\/strong>
\nInvert OCIO CDLTransform OCIO Colorspace OCIO Display
\nOCIO FileTransform OCIO LogConvert
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keyer<\/strong>
\nKeyer
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merge
\n<\/strong>AddMix Dissolve KeyMix Merge
\nPremult Switch Unpremult
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transform
\n<\/strong>Crop CornerPin PlanarTracker Reformat
\n<\/span>Tracker Transform TransformMasked<\/span><\/p>\n

Views<\/strong>
\nJoinViews OneView ShuffleView Split and Join
\nStereo Anaglyph Stereo MixViews Stereo ReConverge Stereo SideBySide
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Metadata<\/strong>
\nAddTimeCode CompareMetadata CopyMetadata ModifyMetadata
\nViewMetadata
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other<\/strong>
\nBackdrop Dot Group Input
\nOutput PostageStamp StickyNote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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