Over at Libre Graphic World, Alexandre Prokoudine talks to Alexandre Gauthier, developer of the node-based Natron compositor. Yes, it looks an awful lot like Nuke - read the interview to find out why.
When it comes to compositing, there are, in fact, more options than Blender, Synfig, and ButtleOFX. Natron 0.92 has just been released with major new features.The project is a free (Mozillla Public License v2) node-based compositor that relies on OpenColorIO for color management, OpenImageIO for file formats support, and Qt for user interface. It also works with 32bit float per channel precision and supports OFX plugins, both free and commercial.
Natron was started last year at Inria, a public science and technology institution that unites several research centres in France. Alexandre Gauthier, the lead developer of Natron, got the required funding from the institution, and last December he additionally won a “Boost Your Code” contest at Inria that offered him 12 months of paid development. In May this year, Alexandre presented the project at Libre Graphics Meeting in Leipzig.
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is that a fake??? the interface look same like NUKE?
A downloadable, running fake? Now that's a nice trick! :)
is it just me or does this look very much like nuke?
Is it something similar to Adobe AfterEffects?
Almost. After Effects is layer based, but the purpose is the same, composition.
it's more similar with Nuke
Its not fake, its real but unstable. Though seeing as how many paid devs are working on it and what they already did i guess it will easily replace Blender compositor in a year or so.
if it replaced the blender com, BF would probably ask for an integration path. :)
i'm more of the idea of adding OS tools to the OS pipeline than replace them. ;) I bet that is most powerful.
Blender compositor is not build for complex things. It's more about making fast preview of what you're doing. So I don't think Blender compositor will be useless anyway.
the opensource world just keeps on giving, there's hope for humanity yet:)
I was so disappointed with Ramen developer (he just deleted all the documentation I've written).
Happy to see light again on Open Source Compositors :D
Seems like a rip-off of Nuke UI...
It's not ripping off Nuke's UI. It's taking inspiration of a familiar and working design.
Well,... if you need to convince yourself, so be it then!...
It's hard to deny that the two interfaces are very close in Design. But the two softwares are based on the same UIframework (Qt 5.3), and the render engine are far differents. :)
no, of course that is simpler to came with a "nobody knows how to do it" UI, so everybody can take a look easily :D
You're absolutely right! And that's precisely how Blender came around if I recall. ;)
When I say rip-off, I can back that out with facts. As a reminder take a good look at each & every little tiny icons. I don't mind inspiration. If you take a look at Fusion ( from eyeon) for instance, the "new" look of Nuke is clearly inspired by it. But it does differ in terms of usabilty, functionalities and performances.
They could have taken the general ideas without copying every little icons. It shows lack of personality and yes... Inspiration, even creativity.
And well, if it's a way to be noticed by the Foundry, they could have chosen another way, a more cautious avenue. But hey I don't care it's not me who's going to receive a cease and desist type of letter...
yeah, i bet it will be better to came up with some adjustments and creativity. There will be time for that later, i hope. ;)
Did I read it right? The inventor is also a co-founder at The Foundry? No wonder why.
The inventor of the OpenFX plugin concept ... not of 'Natron' :)
Thanks for clarification.
You're welcome. :o)
what do you call a duplicate of nuke?
Sorry to say, i got a problem with that, nearly 90% of the GUI is a copy of Nukes Gui i think the foundry will not be happy about it, so i believe they have to change it. to get out of trouble in the near future.
Good Lord, that UI looks hideous. It's all over the place, nothing is aligned properly, everthing has too little padding etc. etc.
As for similarities with NUKE, I don't see that many. NUKE has a polished UI and not something that has been slapped together in 5 minutes.
yep, it looks a lot like Nuke.