If you are already familiar with Houdini, we recommend taking Introduction to Houdini for FX. If you are a beginner, we recommend taking our Houdini Fundamentals course. Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio continue to be the go-to industry tools for compositing, editorial and review tasks, and we’re confident these updates will continue to provide performance improvements and further increase artist efficiency.We have an interactive quiz that you can take to figure out the best course for your skill level. “We’re delighted to announce the release of Nuke and Hiero 11.0 with new workflows for artist collaboration and a renewed focus on industry standards. Jody Madden, Chief Product and Customer Officer at Foundry, commented:

Timeline Disk Cache in Nuke Studio: Nuke Studio now has new GPU accelerated disk caching that allows users to cache part or all of a sequence to disk for smoother playback of more complex sequences.

New Lens Distortion in NukeX: The LensDistortion node has been completely revamped, with added support for fisheye and wide-angle lenses and the ability to use multiple frames to produce better results.

The Frame Server takes advantage of available resource on your local machine, enabling you to continue working while rendering is happening in the background.

Frame Server in Nuke and NukeX: Nuke Studio’s intelligent background rendering is now available in Nuke and NukeX.

Live Groups referenced in other scripts automatically update when a script is loaded, without the need to render intermediate stages.

Live Groups: Introduces a new type of group node which offers a powerful new collaborative workflow for sharing work among artists.

VFX Reference Platform 2017: The Nuke family is being updated to VFX Platform 2017, which includes several major updates to key libraries used within Nuke, including Python, Pyside and Qt.

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