Defense Against the Dark Arts
A couple of weeks ago, I began to see signs that someone was attempting to attack my online profiles and accounts. Rather than wait until my security had been b...
Category: Technical
Tutorials, case studies, and tools useful to visual effects artists.
OpenCL Fuses: Patterns
This is the seventh in a series of articles about OpenCL Fuse development, following the guidance of Vivo & Lowe's Book of Shaders (BoS). In the previous ar...
OpenCL Fuses: Transformations
This is the sixth in a series of articles in which I explore the lessons recommended by Vivo & Lowe's Book of Shaders in the context of custom Fuse tools fo...
OpenCL Fuses: Shapes
This is part five in a series on OpenCL Fuse development for Blackmagic Fusion. I am attempting to convert the lessons from the Book of Shaders into working Fus...
Fusion 9's OpenCL "Acceleration"
I promised in my initial review of Fusion 9 to do some speed tests. Blackmagic claims that every tool has been rewritten to offer GPU acceleration with OpenCL. ...
OpenCL Fuses: Index
An ongoing exploration of OpenCL Fuses for Blackmagic Fusion. In these articles, I describe my efforts to practice the lessons outlined in the Book of Shaders i...
OpenCL Fuses: Interpolation
This is the fourth article in a series on OpenCL Fuse development for Blackmagic Fusion. I am attempting to convert the lessons from the Book of Shaders into wo...
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 ...
OpenCL Fuses: Position and Time
This is the third article in a series on OpenCL Fuse development for Blackmagic Fusion. I am attempting to convert the lessons from the Book of Shaders into wor...
Blackmagic Fusion 9: Closing the Gap
I have just finished up two days of doing demos and answering questions at Blackmagic's booth on the expo floor at SIGGRAPH. I had a fine time meeting the peopl...