Karma, Cryptomatte and Fusion
UPDATE April 2025: Fusion 20's public beta was recently released. They've made significant changes to their EXR handling that ought to completely remove this is...
Category: Pipeline
Toolbox UI Script for Fusion
Management of custom tools and scripts in Fusion can begin to become difficult as the number of assets increases. Not only does finding the specific scri...
It's a Great Time to be a Fusioneer!
Over the past three months or so, there have been quite a few very encouraging and exciting developments in the Fusion community. Just in case any of them have ...
Fusion 9's OpenCL "Acceleration"
I promised in my initial review of Fusion 9 to do some speed tests. Blackmagic claims that every tool has been rewritten to offer GPU acceleration with OpenCL. ...
Blackmagic Fusion: The 3D Workspace
The lines between 3D and 2D visual effects tasks are blurring more and more. Nuke and Fusion both have useful 3D toolsets built in, and After Effects users can ...
Blackmagic Fusion 9: Closing the Gap
I have just finished up two days of doing demos and answering questions at Blackmagic's booth on the expo floor at SIGGRAPH. I had a fine time meeting the peopl...
Face Replacement with PFTrack, 3DS Max and Fusion
The first year of my time at Muse VFX was spent almost exclusively on the Disney's Dog With a Blog. For those not familiar with the show, it's about a talking d...
After Effects defaults and using AE sequences in Maya
If, like me, you get annoyed at always fiddling with the export settings in After Effects, you should take the time to set up some templates and change the defa...
The Maya Project Directory Structure
Update: Additional information on the Data folder. When you create a new Maya project and hit the "use defaults" button, several folders are created. Each of th...
After Effects and Windows Vista
After Effects CS4 and Windows Vista 64-bit do not get along well. Although my newish computer renders my projects over 60 times faster than my old one did, the ...