While all studios build their own extensions to Nuke, the application remains the same at its core, and therefore provides a familiar foundation from which compositing teams can be trained, and adapt to the unique challenges and scale of a show such as Thor: Love and Thunder.” “It’s fundamental, not just in compositing, but in almost all the steps in which images are managed, from ingestion of scans through to delivery of final frames. “Nuke is core to the VFX pipeline at Framestore,” Mark Braithwaite, Compositing Supervisor at Framestore. To help them, Framestore’s VFX team turned to Foundry’s own compositing tool, Nuke. Framestore, famed for working on projects such as Elvis and His Dark Materials, amongst many others, took on the momentous task of crafting this Marvel adventure. Continuing on the story of the God of Thunder, this blockbuster was action-packed from start to finish.Īnd like many great movies, behind the vast battle scenes and spectacular galaxies was a team of hard-working visual effects artists perfecting every shot of the epic film. Screaming goats, Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, a female Thor and a guest appearance of Zeus-and all in under two hours? We wouldn’t have believed it either until we saw Thor: Love and Thunder.

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