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Tapered Bezier curve for Fusion

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Bryan / 6 Comments

In this developer's diary, I'll walk through the creation of a tapered Bezier curve Fuse.

3d Modeling/Fusion Tools/Mathematics/Programming/Technical

Combining Normal Maps

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Bryan / 0 Comment

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: ...

Compositing/Early Career/Mathematics/Projects/Technical/Visual Effects Industry/Writing

Blackmagic Fusion: Macros

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Bryan / 5 Comments

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...

Compositing/Early Career/Mathematics/Projects/Technical/Visual Effects Industry/Writing

Blackmagic Fusion: Expressions

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Bryan / 7 Comments

In order to get some early feedback on this chapter of a forthcoming book, I am publishing it early. There are references to other chapters that have been writt...

Compositing/Technical

The Downside to Blackmagic Fusion's CustomTool: It's slow

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Bryan / 0 Comment

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...

Compositing/Fusion Tools/FX Animation/Glitch Tools/Projects/Technical

Pin Light blend mode for Blackmagic Fusion

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Bryan / 9 Comments

Just a small offering this time: The pin light mode from After Effects is a conditional operator. For every pixel in each channel, if image2 > 0.5, display t...

3d Modeling/Compositing/Mathematics/Technical

Soft-Skinned 3d Geometry in Blackmagic Fusion

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Bryan / 0 Comment

Muse VFX recently created visual effects for Robert Rodriguez' From Dusk Till Dawn television series. The show involves a species of reptilian vampires whose te...

3d Modeling/Compositing/Technical

Blackmagic Fusion: The Texture Node

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Bryan / 3 Comments

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...

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