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Nuke 17.0
Add the tech shaping the future of VFX to your compositing toolkit. Take back creative control while meeting the demands of modern productions, whether you're creating high-fidelity 3D renders with Splats, matte painting for in-camera or high-end VFX, or sharing your vision during review.
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Native Splats
Add another dimension to your shots — now you can unlock the full power of Gaussian Splats natively in Nuke's 3D system. Ingest Splats and manipulate them with the new Field nodes, plus experimental LABS nodes, for integration into your shots without leaving the Node Graph.
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The modernized 3D system
The culmination of your feedback is here, in the 3D system made for Nuke artists. Experience the production-ready 3D environment that takes your compositing to a new level of scale and creative control, with workflows that are intuitive for anyone used to the Nuke way of working.
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USD, but Nuke
The benefits of USD, intuitive for artists
3D system workflows
Projections
Create projections and matte paintings with greater performance when bringing in complex, detailed scenes. Plus new tools such as Sticky Projections, snapping and constraints, and much more.
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Match real-world conditions with new tools designed to mirror on-set lighting workflows. Refine your lighting techniques with new and improved nodes, controls, and customization options.
Learn more Rendering
Generate more from your comp with enhanced rendering in the new 3D system. Experience greater render fidelity and access better renders, plus create dynamic reflections and refractions with ray-tracing.
Learn more Materials & shading
Generate much more complex and detailed shaders straight out of Nuke natively with new MaterialX support, for improved integration of elements into your shots.
Learn more Masks & paths
Manage complex scenes with precise selection and targeting. Nuke 17.0's mask and path workflows make USD's structured hierarchy intuitive for artists used to the Node Graph's flexibility.
Learn morePlus enhanced import, performance, and more
Artistic annotations
Overhauled annotations
Close the feedback loop. Review cycles are faster, clearer, and much more efficient thanks to the overhauled annotation system. Updates such as a wider range of more responsive drawing tools, and a dedicated comments panel, enhance collaboration and creative communication
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The new Annotations Panel provides a single source of truth that keeps everyone on the same page. Track full conversations, filter comments, and jump straight to the relevant frame.
Learn more Artistic brushes
We've completely redesigned the brushes for more natural and expressive drawing. Including new Clone, Dodge and Burn brushes, plus size, opacity, and hardness pressure controls for more flexible annotation.
Learn more Pipeline connection
Annotations can be exported to Nuke scripts or burned onto the sequence, as well as communicated to your choice of shot manager with expanded Python API support.
Learn moreSpeed & scale
Core Nuke improvements
Nuke 17.0’s core image processing system enables you to work at scale. With up to 98x faster upscaling on the GPU, up to 1.88x faster deep composite rendering, support for NotchLC, ACES 2.0, and more.
Machine learning at scale
BigCat helps you harness larger datasets to train more generalized, reusable models to solve problems on a larger scale across hundreds of shots.
Pipeline & platform
Variables unlocked
Build smarter customizations critical to your show and pipeline — the Variable system improves pipeline connections with a production-ready framework. Including support for Python Callbacks, API integration, and more.
Learn more The latest platforms
Reduced friction between departments and tools for reliable, flexible pipelines. With OpenAssetIO library updates, USD version 25.08, VFX Reference Platform 2025, and updated Sony SDK & SMDK support.
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Past releases
Missed Nuke 16? Upgrade to Nuke 17.0 for faster large-scale roto, and Variable-enabled workflows.
Previous updatesTech specs
Check out the tech specs to find out more about Nuke’s supported operating systems and hardware requirements.
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Read the release notes to see a full list of the updates and changes in Nuke 17.0.
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