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Blackmagic Fusion's Merge and Booleans Mathematics

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Bryan / 2 Comments

You can take your compositing skills up a notch with a thorough understanding of the math behind Fusion's Merge and Channel Booleans tools.

Compositing/Fusion Tools/Mathematics/Motion Graphics/Programming/Projects/Technical/Video & Animation

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.

Compositing/Fusion Tools/Mathematics/Programming/Projects/Technical

Redshift Camera Metadata in Fusion

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Bryan / 9 Comments

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...

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/Fusion Tools/Mathematics/Programming/Projects/Technical/Video & Animation

OpenCL Fuses: Patterns

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Bryan / 0 Comment

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...

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OpenCL Fuses: Transformations

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Bryan / 0 Comment

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...

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

Card Wipe Transition for Fusion – Developer's Diary

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Bryan / 2 Comments

The Glitch Tools macro collection I am working on is, in large part, based on a template for After Effects that we have at work. I am not sure where the templat...

Art/Mathematics

An Exploration of Euler's Identity

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Bryan / 0 Comment

I have long been fascinated by the mysterious mathematical formula called Euler's Identity. I enjoy it so much that I even have it framed on my wall:   Pec...

Compositing/Mathematics/Technical

Some rather attractive compositing math

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Bryan / 2 Comments

This morning, one of my coworkers, Dan, presented a problem: We commonly merge translucent elements such as smoke on top of themselves in order to thicken them ...

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