
Pioneering Software For Creative Industries
Our products help tackle complex visualization challenges to meet the demands of your customers and projects. With over 20 years of industry know-how and a focus on speed, quality and user-experience, we save you time so you can spend it bringing incredible ideas to life.
- NUKE
- KATANA
- HIERO
- MARI
- CARA VR
- FLIX

NUKE
Nuke is an award-winning node-based compositing toolkit, that gives artists the power and flexibility to create with confidence. This toolset delivers film-grade results fast, making it the perfect choice for compositing, VFX editorial and review.
Why Nuke?
- Compositing and much more
- Power and performance
- Collaboration, speed and efficiency
- The perfect fit for your pipeline
Flexible compositing toolset
- Feature-packed compositing toolset
- Delivers film-grade results
- Access to technical support
- One year maintenance
Advanced compositing tools
- For more complex compositing tasks
- 2 Nuke Assist licenses (with maintenance)
- Access to technical support
- One year maintenance
NukeX + Hiero’s editorial timeline
- Composite, conform, edit, and review
- 2 Nuke Assist licenses (with maintenance)
- Access to technical support
- One year maintenance
Render license
- floating or node-locked
- Headless version of Nuke (no GUI) For rendering on an external render farm
- Also rendering files from Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Hiero Available as permanent with maintenance
Explore NUKE Family
Introducing Nuke 13 Series
Experience the Nuke 13 series, which combines cutting-edge technology and improvements with tried-and-true features to give artists complete creative and technical control over their work, eliminate pipeline friction, and assist them in getting closer to the finished product.
Features -
- New Shuffle Node
- Updated Nuke Spherical Transform and Bilateral
- Cara VR GPU Caching
- New BlinkScript Particle Support
- Lens Distortion Workflow Improvements


KATANA
Katana is the industry leading node graph based look development and lighting tool used by companies tackling projects with the large scope, highest volume and quality demands even on the shortest schedules.
With its highly efficient, collaborative approach to look development and lighting, Katana® gives you the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.
Katana: becoming the ultimate digital cinematography platform
- Reduce artist downtime
- Share the workload
- Keep your assets accessible
- Work in parallel to finish faster
- Choose your renderer
- The perfect fit for your pipeline
Powerful look development and lighting
- Permanent, interactive artist session license with one-year maintenance plan
- Price shown is for a permanent license with one-year maintenance plan
- 3Delight interactive rendering included. Other renderers require their own license
Render license
- Permanent, command-line session license with one-year maintenance plan
- Allows the use of Katana in batch, shell, and script mode
- Required for command-line rendering with any renderer plugin
Render license bundle
- All the functions of Katana Render plus...
- 3D Light render license for batch rendering
- First year maintenance included
INTRODUCING KATANA 3.5
Katana 3.5 bulldozes the most demanding look development and lighting challenges faced by artists today. Its rewritten engine dramatically improves core performance and speed, making the time to first pixel plummet so artists can achieve accurate, high-quality results quicker than ever before. Katana: unlimited speed and power, brought to light.
- Core performance 2-30x faster
- Improved rendered image refresh rate
- New Monitor Layer
- Network Material Create Improvements
- USD Import nodes based on USD 19.11
- Core USD updated to USD 19.11

HIERO
Part of the Nuke family, HIERO streamlines conform, VFX editorial, and review. Hiero makes it easy to manage multi-shot projects while empowering teams to work efficiently, in context of an edit or sequence.
- Multi-track editorial timeline
- One year maintenance Access to technical support
- Desktop review tool
- One year maintenance
- Access to technical support

Introducing Hiero 12.1
Hiero 12.1 ships with Bin and Track item Version Linking, HieroPlayer as Flipbook in Nuke, Faster HieroPlayer Launch and much more.
- QuickTime Audio MultiOS Support
- Surround Sound Audio Support
- Bin and Track Item Version Linking
- HieroPlayer as Flipbook in Nuke
- Faster HieroPlayer Launch
- Expanded Launch Options


MARI
Mari is our academy award winning 3D paint tool, which gives artists a fluid and flexible way to paint 3D models. Most commonly used in visual-effects and animation for painting background environments, hero character and everything in between.
Why MARI?
- Artist-friendly paint tools you’ll love
- Take huge complexity in your stride
- Eliminate the guesswork
- The perfect fit for your pipeline
- Powerful 3D paint tools
- Permanent license with one year Maintenance Plan
- Node-locked or floating licenses available
- Easy, affordable access
- Annual license paid either monthly or annually
- Single license for those working alone or in small companies
- Scalable access to Mari
- Quarterly rental license
- Use all versions of Mari during the rental period
MARI 4.6 - WHAT’S NEW
Mari 4.6 brings updates to our Material System, introducing new Geo-Channels, alongside a vast array of new Procedural Nodes which offer a variety of patterns and filters for a more efficient workflow. We’ve collaborated with teams behind 3Delight and VRay, allowing artists to get closer approximations for their renders in Mari, reducing the need for round-tripping between Mari and Katana.
- Geo-Channels
- Node Graph
- New Procedural Nodes
- Streamlined Look Development
- Material System Improvements


CARA VR
Cara vr is a plug-in toolset for nuke that helps you create high-quality live-action 360 degree virtual reality content by streamlining vr stitching, compositing and review workflows.
With a specialized toolset for creating incredible live-action virtual reality content, Cara VR™ for Nuke® dramatically speeds up the challenging and often tedious process of stitching and compositing 360° video footage, so you have more time to focus on creating high-quality immersive experiences. The latest version of Cara VR is now integrated into your NukeX environment.
Cara VR in NukeX
• The latest version of CaraVR is now part of your NukeX environment
MARI 4.6 - WHAT’S NEW
• Seamless stitching of mono or stereo VR content
Cara VR’s advanced stitching toolset automatically corrects for exposure and white balance differences between cameras, and stabilizes moving camera shots for a more comfortable viewing experience.
• Powerful streamlined VR compositing workflows
Cara VR makes it easy for artists to use Nuke’s full suite of compositing tools on 360° footage for clean-up, set extensions, 3D element insertion and more.
• Headset review inside Nuke
With Cara VR’s support for popular VR headsets, you can review directly from Nuke’s viewer or Nuke Studio’s timeline, eliminating the need to export to a separate application.

FLIX
Flix brings order to the chaos of story development, so Creatives can focus on great storytelling, and Production can be confident projects run like clockwork.
Flix makes life easier for both Creative and Production team.
Why Flix?
- Free yourself of administrative tasks
- An intuitive workflow to iterate freely
- Collaborate efficiently
- Keep using the tools you love
INTRODUCING FLIX 6.3
Flix 6.3 brings new levels of security with HTTPS, faster imports, and an enhanced Avid Dialogue workflow—saving you time to focus more on what matters.
- Import Speed Improvements
- More Secure than Ever (HTTPS - SSL/TLS)
- Improved Avid Dialogue Workflow
- Continued Improvements

DISCOVER THE ITERATIVE STORY DEVELOPMENT
Flix lives at the heart of your pre-production, making it easier for teams to collaborate together and iterate on ideas.