Render Foundry Nuke scripts on Deadline Cloud

The nuke_render job bundle renders Nuke scripts in headless mode with the nuke -x command. The job creates one task per frame using the Open Job Description parameter space feature, and is restricted to Linux workers through host requirements.

The bundle includes a sample motionblur3d_10.nk Nuke script based on Foundry's MotionBlur3D example, configured with relative file paths and a pre-configured Write node.

To run this bundle, your queue needs Nuke available through a queue environment that installs the nuke and nuke-openjd conda packages. The nuke-16.0 conda recipe in the samples repository builds a Nuke conda package you can publish to your queue's S3 conda channel.

Submit the bundle with custom parameters:

deadline bundle submit nuke_render/ \
  --name "My Nuke Render" \
  -p Frames="1-10" \
  -p NukeScript=path-to-script.nk \
  -p OutputDir=path-for-outputs

Or open the GUI submitter:

deadline bundle gui-submit nuke_render/