Blackmagic Fusion: Clean Plates
Painting clean plates is another task commonly assigned to junior compositors. While roto is an easy and tedious job, paint can be very challenging. Every shot ...
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Blackmagic Fusion: Rotoscoping and Keying
The creation of mattes from moving footage is a crucial, though sometimes tedious, part of making visual effects. It is a rare shot that does not require a matt...
Blackmagic Fusion: The Interface and Tracking
The Viewer Panels Before we get into the lesson on Motion Tracking, let’s take a walk through more of Fusion’s interface. We have already had an ove...
Blackmagic Fusion: The Basics
The following article is a chapter in a forthcoming compositing textbook. There are references to chapters and appendices that have not yet been written. As tho...
Anatomy of an Image
It’s tempting when someone starts going on about LUTs and gamma and gamuts to let your eyes just glaze over and then ignore them until they go away...
Card Wipe Transition for Fusion – Developer’s Diary
The Glitch Tools macro collection I am working on is, in large part, based on a template for After Effects that we have at work. I am not sure where the templat...
Blackmagic Fusion: Getting Started
Getting Started in Blackmagic Fusion These articles are mostly based on Fusion 8.2 build 2 running on Windows 7 with an nVidia GPU. There are some slight differ...
Blackmagic Fusion: Expressions
In order to get some early feedback on this chapter of a forthcoming book, I am publishing it early. There are references to other chapters that have been writt...
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...
An Exploration of Euler’s Identity
I have long been fascinated by the mysterious mathematical formula called Euler’s Identity. I enjoy it so much that I even have it framed on my wall: &nbs...