The acquisition is paying off: Foundry is embedding AI agents directly into artist workflows using Model Context Protocol, and showing live compositing demos at NAB.
Foundry used NAB 2026 to show the first tangible results of its February acquisition of Griptape, an AI orchestration platform. Chief Product Officer Lauren Morris walked through a live demonstration of AI agents running inside Nuke, Blender, and Maya via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), all connected to a centralized project brain that understands context across the pipeline.
Agents in the artist's tool. Instead of routing AI tasks through a separate web interface, Foundry is placing agents inside the applications artists already use. An MCP server exposes Nuke's node graph to a large language model, which can then execute complex compositing operations through natural-language instructions. Morris showed an agent performing a full cleanup pass on a shot: identifying the problem area, building the node tree, and executing the composite without manual node creation.
Blender and Maya integration. Similar MCP servers connect Blender and Maya to the same agent framework. The system can chain operations across applications, for example generating a 3D element in Blender and automatically importing it into a Nuke composite.
CopyCat upgrades. Foundry's existing machine-learning tool inside Nuke, CopyCat, received updates for faster training and more robust rotoscoping. The long-term direction is a unified AI layer where CopyCat handles pixel-level tasks while Griptape agents manage higher-level pipeline orchestration.
Enterprise security. Because Griptape runs on-premises or in a customer's cloud VPC, media companies retain full control over their content. Foundry emphasized that no assets leave the production environment during AI processing.
ComfyUI and Google partnership. Foundry showed its tools running alongside ComfyUI on Google Cloud, part of a broader industry pattern of bringing AI models to existing artist tools rather than forcing artists into new platforms.
Timeline. The MCP integrations are in early access. Foundry plans wider availability through 2026, with a focus on compositing and rotoscoping workflows first, expanding to layout, lighting, and scene assembly.
