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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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.
New Reels for 2020
bryan-ray_compositing-reel_2020_v02 from Bryan Ray on Vimeo. This Compositing and Lighting reel shows work from Legion, From Dusk Till Dawn, Charmed, Teen Wolf ...
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...
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 ...
Blackmagic Fusion: Cameras, Lenses and Sensors
Fusion 9 has been released, and the retail price for the Studio version has dropped to a mere $299. From this article forward, I’ll be using Fusion 9 Free...
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 ...
OpenCL Fuses: Fuse Template and Structure
That Voronoi Fuse I documented recently is really slow, and there are quite a few features that I would like to add to it. Unfortunately, each new feature will ...