Well, well, well...

[SecondMan]

This is a screenshot of the 2025 Nuke Futures Survey

If anyone is still wondering whether Fusion is taken seriously as a professional compositing application - The Foundry seems to do so.

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I have in the past always asked reps from The Foundry - including their CEO when they came for a tour at Method Studios - about Fusion, especially after the acquisition by BMD and its integration in Resolve. Their response, and I quote: "they've done a great job, but it's not a Nuke killer."

I always felt that was an odd response. Every department in a VFX pipeline has multiple DCCs to choose from, apart from compositing. 100% Nuke across the board. My own most successful shows, including at Method and others that I have worked at, had Fusion running in the background "as long as I didn't tell anyone". A dirty little secret.

Yeah, it's not like I have access to a public forum or something

I am now enjoying this very, very much.

[Vassay]

Fusion lives rent free in Foundry's heads, that's good.

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[ShadowMaker SdR]

Other: please specify

Clean-up jobs that Nuke couldn't handle

[Marf]

Is this survey accessible somewhere?

[SecondMan]

As far as I know it is now closed, at least for me. But i’ll make sure not to ignore the 2026 one

[MWoodin]

Other: please specify

Clean-up jobs that Nuke couldn't handle

I was actually curious about this? What kind of jobs do you find Fusion can handle that Nuke can't. I'm generally a Nuke user and used to do cleanup in Nuke pretty extensively but haven't fully gotten the hang of working in Fusion just yet. I'm curious what others think Fusion is able to do more easily than Nuke?