Creators of pioneering software for creative industries. Tacklers of complex visualization challenges.
Foundry has a heritage of more than 25 years, developing creative software for the Media and Entertainment industry and a portfolio of award-winning products. It advances the art and technology of visual experience with creative leaders around the globe, including major feature film studios and post-production houses such as ILM, DNEG, Pitch Black, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Wētā FX, Pixar, Ma
rvel, Netflix, Framestore, and Technicolor Creative Studios. In partnership with these companies, Foundry solves complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality. Its products are used to create breathtaking visual effects and animation on a wide range of feature films, episodic content, and commercials. Foundry software was integral in the making of every VFX Academy Award-winning film for the past decade. The company has been recognized and honored at the highest level in the industry, including four Academy Sci-Tech Awards for Mari, Katana, Nuke and Furnace, two HPA Engineering Excellence awards for Flix and Nuke respectively, and an Engineering Emmy for Nuke. Founded in 1996, Foundry is headquartered in London, with over 300 people worldwide and a presence in the US, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, and Ireland.
26/09/2025
Check out the next video in our ‘Getting started with Katana’ series to help progress your Pixar's RenderMan Art Challenge project!
Our latest guide shows you how to refine the look of your assets inside Katana by converting your textures to RenderMan’s .tex format, before importing them and building up the materials.
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Learn how you can refine the look of your assets inside Katana by converting your textures to RenderMan's .tex format before importing them in and building u...
25/09/2025
After a busy summer of events, we’re revisiting CGA Belgrade. If you weren’t able to attend, we’ve got you covered, with Paul Ringue’s insightful presentation exploring Mari’s Smart Materials and Masks, and how to use them to speed up your texturing.
Learn how you can create your own reusable textures that use baked geo maps, like ambient occlusion and curvature, to drive where your material effects, such as rust and dirt, will go.
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Paul Ringue is VFX Content Creator & Producer at Foundry. Join him as he explores Mari's Smart Materials and masks and how to use them to speed up texturing....
22/09/2025
A deep dive into the making of the animated short film, A Sparrow’s Song! 🐦✨
Student Academy Award winners Vincent Maurer and Tobias Eckerlin reveal how they used Katana for look development and lighting and Nuke for compositing.
Join Teoman Şirvanci as he gives you a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of his detailed toy racing car. Teoman walks us through his texturing process step by step using Mari.
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Join Teoman Şirvanci as he takes you behind the scenes in the making of his detailed toy racing car. Teoman walks us through his texturing process step by st...
03/09/2025
Our Principal Product Manager for Machine Learning, Adam Cherbetji, explains how ML can save artists hours of menial work. Find out how Nuke’s CopyCat saved the Dune: Part Two VFX team thousands of hours of work when replacing the actors’ eyes with the famous Fremen blue.
Go behind the scenes of Netflix’s most VFX-intensive project yet, The Electric State, with Digital Domain’s Asset Supervisor Nick Cosmi. In this insightful interview he tells us how the team used Mari to bring a legion of 61 individual robots to life, the visual references behind them, and the challenges involved.
Ever wanted to create a jaw-dropping photorealistic crocodile in Mari? Fantastic 3D artist Raquel Rossetti shows you how to create ultra-realism to bring every cracked scale, muddy crease, and sun-baked scar to life with Mari.
Time to get snappy and make your own creation!
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This photorealistic crocodile was textured by the brilliant Raquel Rossetti, bringing every cracked scale, muddy crease, and sun-baked scar to life with Mari...
07/07/2025
Curious about the Nuke 16.0 node tree's inspiration? Join Einar Martinsen, creator of the Nuke 16.0 splash screen, as he walks us through his journey of creating the node tree. Join Einar on July 9 at 5 PM BST | 12 PM EDT on YouTube Live.
19/06/2025
Level up your 3D art with Mari! Join our ‘Mari in Minutes’ email series and master Mari in just 30 days. Learn texture painting essentials through easy-to-digest video lessons. From color theory to node-based workflows, we've got you covered.
Our friends at Access:VFX are hosting a wonderful networking event at Framestore on July 9th in London.
Make sure to get your free ticket at the link below for the chance to connect with your peers, talkwith industry professionals and partake in training sessions designed to help you gain insights into VFX career pathways.
Join ACCESS: VFX & Talk 2 Dan for a fun, interactive event to explore creative career opportunities, skills and network with industry!
13/06/2025
We sat down with Einar Martinsen, the artist behind the Nuke 16.0 hero imagery to talk about his career journey and the inspirations for his work.
From working with Wētā on Avatar: The Way of Water to Amazon on The Rings of Power, he succeeded in fulfilling a childhood dream after being inspired to work in VFX by the original Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Find out how the team at Digital Domain brought over 60 robots to life in Netflix's 'The Electric State' using Mari at the exciting Gnomon event happening tomorrow!
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Presentation on the texturing of The Electric State, led by Digital Domain’s Nick Cosmi.
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Our products help tackle complex visualization challenges to meet the demands of your customers and projects. With over 20 years of industry know-how and a focus on speed, quality and user-experience, we save you time so you can spend it bringing incredible ideas to life.
Foundry develops creative software for the Digital Design, Media and Entertainment industries. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.
Clients and partners include major feature film studios and post-production houses such as Pixar, ILM, MPC, Walt Disney Animation, Weta Digital, DNEG, and Framestore as well as automotive, footwear, apparel and technology companies such as Mercedes, New Balance, Adidas and Google. Foundry partners with these companies to solve complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality.
Foundry’s products are used to create breathtaking visual effects sequences on a wide range of feature films, video-on-demand, television and commercials. Foundry software was integral in the making of every VFX Oscar-winning film, award-winning TV shows and commercials for more than a decade.
Founded in 1996, Foundry is headquartered in London, with over 300 employees and a presence in the US, China, Japan, Australia and Europe. In 2019, the London Stock Exchange named Foundry one of the “1000 Companies to Inspire Britain.” It regularly features in The Sunday Times’ Tech Track as one of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.
