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The Foundry is a leading developer of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity and workflow in film and video post production.

The company was established in 1996 by Bruno Nicoletti and Simon Robinson, both intimate with high-end post production facilities across the globe, and together they produced the Tinder plug-ins for Discreet's Flame systems the first set of such plug-ins to be commercially available. The Foundry has grown considerably since its early days; the company now successfully licenses its sophisticated image processing technology to third parties, holds a portfolio comprising three Academy Award winning products including high-end compositing application NUKE and operates offices in London and LA. The Foundry's innovative products are renowned worldwide and support a wide range of host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Baselight, Film Master, NUKE, Scratch and Shake.

In addition to product development The Foundry has used its considerable influence to drive the development of an open standard for visual effects plug-ins known as OpenFX. OpenFX is gaining wide acceptance by host and plug-in developers, such as Autodesk, Assimilate, Digital Vision, FilmLight, Grass Valley, Soluciones Graficas por Ordenador (S.G.O.), Photron and others.

Plug-ins from The Foundry

• The Foundry Anvil Visual effects package for Avid|DS
• The Foundry Furnace - Designed to tackle many complex day-to-day compositing problems. Includes an optical-flow retimer and Steadiness; removes camera shake without the use of tracking points.
• The Foundry Keylight - One of the most powerful and easy to use keyers available.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 1 - Includes sky generators, light rays, hand-drawn etch effects, heat haze, water caustics, matte dilation tools, and the fastest software Gaussian blur for After Effects.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 2 - 8 and 16-bit plug-ins, including the fastest software camera defocus for After Effects, lens flares, newsprint, glass distortions, a flexible paint effect and more.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 3 - Includes BadTV, OldFilm, MeltTime, Lightning, Turner Sparks, and Condensation, as well as various blurs and some handy compositing tools.
• The Foundry Tinderbox 4 - Give your projects a cartoon look. Includes InfiniteZoom, Kaleid, LightWrap, LineDrawing, Median, MuzzleFlash, SoftGlow and more!
• The Foundry Tinder - An essential set of plug-ins for high-end compositors