According to The Foundry, the Dope Sheet feature allows artists to see and move keys around in a timeline view-style context and, thanks to a completely reworked text node, artists will be able to compose, edit and animate directly in the viewer. There has also been a major update to the Nuke colour grading options and the colour correction tools: A new in-panel wheel is designed to give intuitive control over hue and saturation as well as values. According to The Foundry, a new Match Grade Node improves Nuke’s grading capabilities.
In this video, The Foundry shows the possibilities of the Nuke 8 features and the new compositing tools:
Here is the second part:
For all those who want to see more: In these three sneak peek videos, The Foundry showed individual features before the release – here the Full Frame Viewer Mode:
The new wireframe tools are intended to take mesh control to a new level:
The In Panel Colour Wheels feature improves the possibilities for colour correction:
Finally, an overview of the new features that will be available in Nuke 8.
We will be testing Nuke 8 and presenting the new features in more detail in an upcoming issue of DP. Until then, you can find all further information about Nuke 8 here.
