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...
Tag: lighting
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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...
Blackmagic Fusion: The Texture Node
While I was studying visual effects in college, one of my instructors ran us through an exercise where we recreated a simple chroma-key tool using basic nodes i...