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...
Tag: rendering
Karma, Cryptomatte and Fusion
UPDATE April 2025: Fusion 20's public beta was recently released. They've made significant changes to their EXR handling that ought to completely remove this is...
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 Redshi...
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 mathematically flawed: ...
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 ...
Blackmagic Fusion: Multipass CG Compositing
Sometimes the effect demanded for a shot is more complex that what can be created in the compositor. Computer animated characters, sophisticated fluid and parti...
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 a talking d...
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...
Job Titles in VFX and CG: Miscellaneous roles
Four years ago, I published a series of articles on job titles in the visual effects industry. I missed an entire class of people, though: The support personnel...