Since joining the Nuke Team nearly ten years ago, I have been in awe of Nuke's power and quality and its contribution to all creative industries, as well as the team's commitment and enthusiasm to deliver the best tool for the creative community. 'We are honored that our work on Nuke through the years is recognised by the Television Academy. Peter Crossley, Nuke Engineering Manager at Foundry, comments: Nuke's flexible, efficient and feature-packed toolset delivers film-grade results fast, which makes it the perfect choice for compositors, lighters and animators who require a robust production-proven toolset.

Jerry Huxtable, Nuke Software Architect, has contributed to Nuke since it was acquired by Foundry in 2007 and Peter Crossley, Nuke Engineering Manager, has been a developer on Nuke for nearly a decade and currently leads the engineering efforts on the Nuke family at Foundry.įor more than a decade, Nuke has been integral in the making of every Emmy award-winning TV show for Drama and Visual Effects, including acclaimed productions like The Crown, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Foundry, the leading developer of creative software for the media and entertainment industries, today announces that Nuke, its industry-leading compositing tool, will be honored with an Engineering Emmy® Award by the Television Academy on 29 October 2020.įour key engineering contributors to Nuke, Bill Spitzak, Jonathan Egstad, Peter Crossley and Jerry Huxtable, will be recognised for extensive developments in engineering that materially affect the production, recording, transmission or reception of television.īill Spitzak and Jonathan Egstad were part of the first Nuke development team that wrote Nuke's core architecture and 3D system at Digital Domain.

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