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You can take your compositing skills up a notch with a thorough understanding of the math behind Fusion's Merge and Channel Booleans tools.
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 on Wi...
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 ...
Chapters Getting Started The Basics The Interface and Tracking Rotoscoping and Keying Clean Plates Elements and Effects Expressions Macros Multipass CG Composit...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...