Lens Flare — A Developer’s Diary pt 1
I'll look at both CG lens flares and real photographed flares on my way to creating lens flare tools in the OpenCL COP for Houdini's Copernicus image processing...
Category: Technical
Tutorials, case studies, and tools useful to visual effects artists.
Karma, Cryptomatte and Fusion
If all you need to know is how to render Cryptomatte from Houdini’s Karma renderer so that it can be used in Fusion, here’s the secret sauce: In you...
Compositing/Early Career/Mathematics/Projects/Technical/Uncategorized/Visual Effects Industry/Writing
Blackmagic Fusion’s Merge and Booleans Mathematics
You can take your compositing skills up a notch with a thorough understanding of the math behind Fusion's Merge and Channel Booleans tools.
Compositing/Fusion Tools/Mathematics/Motion Graphics/Programming/Projects/Technical/Video & Animation
Tapered Bezier curve for Fusion
In this developer's diary, I'll walk through the creation of a tapered Bezier curve Fuse.
Fusion start-up troubleshooting
Let me lead by saying that I have no intention of being Fusion tech support. The information in this post is the only help I will offer, so don’t send me ...
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...
DeSharpen for Fusion
I’ve been dealing with some greenscreen footage at work from a client that doesn’t often use visual effects. They had the in-camera sharpening filte...
Redshift Camera Metadata in Fusion
Springboarding from Vito’s excellent tutorial Exchange Cameras perfectly using the power of Meta-Data, which uses V-Ray, I developed a similar method for ...
Combining Normal Maps
My buddy Vito asked for some help with combining normal maps with bump maps in Fusion. He’s been using a method that’s pretty common but mathematica...
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 ...