Gradient Map for Blackmagic Fusion
A quick little macro. A couple of days ago, I needed a gradient map, a la Photoshop. My brain was on the fritz all week, so I asked my excellent coworker Joe La...
Tag: compositing
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...
Linking 3d geometry to particles in Blackmagic Fusion
One of my favorite things to experiment with in Fusion is its particle system. They are a fantastic tool to create things like smoke, sparks, and magic. Their u...
The Downside to Blackmagic Fusion’s CustomTool: It’s slow
I took some time today to evaluate the efficiency of the CustomTool against a small collection of nodes to see which approach would be better for a particular m...
Pin Light blend mode for Blackmagic Fusion
Just a small offering this time: The pin light mode from After Effects is a conditional operator. For every pixel in each channel, if image2 > 0.5, display t...