atomkraft, integrated nuke rendering

This looks really interesting – JupiterJazz is offering another solution other than the standard Nuke scan-line renderer, AtomKraft. Based on 3Delight rendering engine, AtomKraft’s feature set includes:

• Global illu mi na tion (ray-traced, point-based, or both!)
• Hybrid ray-tracing/REYES rendering
• Stereo/Multi-camera ren der ing with full Ocula 2.0 support
• Advanced physical-based mate ri als & lights
• Image-based and point-based HDR lighting
• Par ti cle import, sim u la tion, pro ce dural expan sion, instanc ing & rendering
• Import of ani mated geom e try (RIB/OBJ/(B)GEO) with weighted motion retargeting
• Sub-pixel dis place ment
• Fast, true 3D motion blur
• True 3D depth of field
• Arbi trary RSL2.0 eval u a tion on Nuke pix els via Atom izer (allow ing e.g. full 2.5D relighting)
• Toon shad ing & Ink out lines tuned for Japanese-style animé rendering
• All com po nents of the shad ing, like spec u lar, dif fuse, reflec tion, indi rect d if­fuse, etc. are avail able as sep a rate chan nels (AOVs) from the Atom­Kraft nodes

“Atom­Kraft turns Nuke into a com­plete look devel­op­ment (re)lighting & (re)rendering solu­tion that enables stu­dios to alle­vi­ate the use of 3D pack­ages for this part of the pro­duc­tion pipeline. It empow­ers com­pos­i­tors to make changes to ren­ders them­selves instead of rely­ing on a light­ing TD. But what’s more — it even allows them to do the work of a light­ing TD, all from inside Nuke.”

Under the Hood Atom­Kraft inter­faces with DNA Research’s 3Delight high-end, Ren­der­Man–com­pli­ant, offline ren­der­ing engine.  The inte­grated ver­sion of 3Delight was specif­i­cally designed in con­junc­tion with jupiter jazz and each Atom­Kraft license includes 3Delight, sup­port­ing unlim­ited cores/threads on a sin­gle host. This is a special AtomKraft ver­sion of 3Delight works solely inside Nuke.

For more information on AtomKraft, check out the Jupiter Jazz website.