type private industry software founded 1996 founder bruno nicoletti headquarters london area served worldwide key people alex mahon ceo bill collis president simon robinson chief scientist bruno nicoletti founder products visual effects and 3d software website thefoundry.co.uk the foundry visionmongers is a visual effects software development company with headquarters in london and offices in manchester los angeles and redwood city california . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the foundry was founded in 1996 by bruno nicoletti with simon robinson joining soon afterwards . 1 alex mahon was named ceo in november 2015 . she supersedes bill collis who will remain president and board member . 2 the foundry was bought by the owners of digital domain wyndcrest holdings in march 2007 and took over dd s existing nuke business . subsequently it was subject to a management buyout with backing from advent venture partners and then acquired by the carlyle group in april 2011 . 3 4 5 in september 2012 the foundry merged with luxology a mountain view based software house known primarily for modo a 3d modelling and animation package . 6 earlier the same month it ranked at number 70 in the sunday times tech track 100 with 2011 2012 sales of approximately 15 million a 49 % increase from 2010 2011 . 7 in 2015 reports were that adobe systems was preparing to buy them from the carlyle group who were the owners at the time 8 products edit the foundry had its origins in plug in development and its first product was the tinder and later tinderbox plugins . this business was sold to genarts in 2010 . 9 it continues to sell the furnace motion estimation based plugins which won an academy scientific and technical award in 2006 10 other plugins include ocula a set of tools for sterescopic post processing ; keylight a keyer ; rollingshutter which reduces cmos artefact distortion ; cameratracker ; and kronos . 11 the foundry continues the development of nuke a node based compositor . version 10.0 v2 was released in june of 2016 12 mari a texture painting application was released in july 2010 . this has been originally developed in house at weta digital for use on avatar . 13 14 katana a tool for look development and lighting originally from sony pictures imageworks was released in 2011 . 15 hiero a brand new shot management conform and review tool was released in march 2012 . the software was designed in house from the ground up by the foundry . 16 references edit meet the team . the foundry visionmongers . retrieved 2012 09 12 . vfx software developer the foundry finds new ceo . the hollywood reporter . retrieved 2015 11 10 . montgomery john march 22 2007 . d2 software s nuke acquired by the foundry . fxguide . retrieved september 12 2012 . palmer maija june 3 2009 . the foundry returns to former management . retrieved october 3 2012 . watkins mary march 15 2011 . carlyle buys the foundry . financial times . retrieved october 3 2012 . cohen david s. september 25 2012 . fx companies the foundry and luxology to merge . variety . retrieved october 3 2012 . 2012 sunday times hiscox tech track 100 league table . sunday times . september 16 2012 . retrieved october 3 2012 . http www.telegraph.co.uk finance newsbysector banksandfinance privateequity 11562472 adobe eyes 200m bid for british visual effects firm the foundry.html seymour mike february 10 2010 . genarts buys tinder plugins from the foundry . fxguide.com . retrieved october 3 2012 . 2006 scientific & technical award winners . academy of motion picture arts & sciences . archived from the original on october 6 2008 . all products for sale . the foundry . retrieved october 3 2012 . nuke release notes pdf . june 8 2016 . retrieved june 27 2016 . hellard paul may 25 2010 . jack greasley developer and product manager at the foundry takes cgsociety for a look around mari the new texture application . cgsociety . retrieved october 3 2012 . mari 1.0 v1 released . the foundry . july 16 2010 . retrieved october 3 2012 . hughes kerrie october 27 2011 . the foundry releases katana 1.0 . 3d world . retrieved october 3 2012 . montgomery john march 8 2012 . hiero ships . fxguide.com . retrieved october 3 2012 . external links edit the foundry visionmongers official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the foundry visionmongers & oldid 739383977 categories companies established in 1996visual effects companiessoftware companies based in london navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 10 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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