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 ...
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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...
Blackmagic Fusion: Macros
In the previous chapter, we created some fairly sophisticated behavior using expressions. Setting up such systems takes some time, though, and if you build some...
Blackmagic Fusion: Elements and Effects
Thus far we have talked a great deal about how to integrate footage together, how to manipulate it, and how to cut it apart and sew it back together in a new co...
Blackmagic Fusion: Clean Plates
Painting clean plates is another task commonly assigned to junior compositors. While roto is an easy and tedious job, paint can be very challenging. Every shot ...
Blackmagic Fusion: Rotoscoping and Keying
The creation of mattes from moving footage is a crucial, though sometimes tedious, part of making visual effects. It is a rare shot that does not require a matt...
Blackmagic Fusion: The Interface and Tracking
The Viewer Panels Before we get into the lesson on Motion Tracking, let's take a walk through more of Fusion's interface. We have already had an overview of the...
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
I am not entirely certain whether this information should be a chapter of its own, an appendix, or be sprinkled throughout the rest of the text. For now, I'm go...
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...