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...
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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...
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Tapered Bezier curve for Fusion
In this developer's diary, I'll walk through the creation of a tapered Bezier curve Fuse.
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...
Blackmagic Fusion: Reflections
Commenter Steven Newby asked for a deeper look at the Reflect node because the existing tutorials he could find on YouTube apparently only examined reflections ...
Job titles in VFX and CG: 2d Effects Artists
When you’re dealing with CG, there are two “art environments,” so to speak. There is the 3d world in which objects are modeled and animated, a...
Job titles in VFX and CG: Illustrators
A friend of mine recently asked for some guidance on getting into CG, and I wrote up everything I currently know on job titles and career paths. It seems like a...