This is a feature length tutorial on Advanced Multi-pass Compositing with Cinema 4D and Fusion. There’s a ton of material covering how to set up your render passes in Cinema 4D to working with them in Fusion 5.
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Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:
Cinema 4D:
• Working with 32bit floating point textures as materials
• Overview of Ambient Occlusion and Global Illumination settings
• Overview of the Fresnel falloff shader
• Dealing with blurry reflections
• Setting up your Z-depth pass for post depth of field effects
• Setting up your bit depth based on your composite
• Straight vs. Post-multiplied Alpha channels
Adobe After Effects:
• Importing the multi-pass comp from Cinema 4D into After Effects
Eyeon Fusion:
• Fusion Compositing Basics
• How to use the merge tool
• Working with Deep Pixel information
• In-depth re-texturing with a UV pass
• In-depth re-lighting with a Normal pass
• Using Colour Curves
• Using passes as masks to tweak effects
• Working with Masks
• Adding depth of field (DOF) in 2D with a Z-Depth pass
• In-depth with the soft glow tool
• In-depth with the Colour Correction tool
• Using the hilight tool to create anamorphic looking lens flares
• Createing Chromatic Aberrations
• Adding realistic grain
• Using passes in unexpected and unintended ways
Adobe Photoshop:
• Dealing with Gamma shifts when working with files in different applications
• Using Looks and Actions to finesse your image
• Adding final touches and colour adjustments
What’s included in the Download?
• High quality quicktime movies of the tutorial (1GB) Part 1 is Cinema 4D, Part 2 is Fusion and Photoshop
• Full 1920X1080 render passes to play with
• Cinema 4D scene source file
• Fusion comp file
• Final layered PSD file
I really hope that you enjoy this tutorial. I put a lot of work into making everything as simple and easy to understand, so it should get you really rocking with multi-pass renders. Even though I do the final comp inside of Fusion instead of After Effects, ALL of the concepts can be applied to After Effects as well. Fusion is my compositing tool of choice, and once you see how easy it is to manipulate and play with different passes in Fusion, you might be a convert to the node based workflow!

Thanks!

November 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
hello Kert! i wanna to buy your classroomboom ) but no have pyPal at this moment..
but on days i try to ask my friends who have Card.. thank you for funny , pleasant, poetically haiku
have a power! stay ON!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hi There, you don’t need a paypal account in order to register. There’s a link in the paypal page to pay via credit card as well. Thanks!
November 28th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hello Kert, i want to buy the multipass tutorial, i from Chile, so, how it works when i pay? you give me a link to download?, if its that way, whats the size of?, thank, and grat site!!
November 28th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
If you can not purchase the tutorial through pay pal, just send me an email to kertgartner@gmail.com and we’ll work out a different payment method.
Thanks!
January 13th, 2010 at 4:45 am
hello am new to fusion and i like your tuts a lot. Unfortunatly, for this one i can’t buy it becouse from my country (morocco) i can’t buy things via paypal or visa card, from other countries : so good look
January 26th, 2010 at 3:36 am
sorry good luck
February 9th, 2010 at 1:09 am
This is a very informative tutorial and goes a LONG way to explaining how the various render passes in 3D software (we use Lightwave) can be used. I have plugged this over at the Newtek forum as I think a great many of us have access to these various render layers/buffers, but don’t know HOW they can be used. This has been very helpful and I could not recommend this higher. Thanks Kert for taking the time to make this. Looking forward to more tutes on compositing within Fusion!
February 20th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Very interesting. Seriously considering.
One question though, as my version of C4D is rather old, what version did you use?
February 20th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Hi Rj0,
I used C4D R11.5, but it doesn’t really matter what version of C4D, or any 3D app you use for that matter. As long as you’re able to output most of the passes, the bulk of this tutorial is spent showing you how to use the passes in 2D, rather than how to get them out of 3D.
February 20th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Thanks Kert,
I’m back on 8.5, which I don’t believe has ambient occlusion (it may be well hidden, but I really don’t think it’s there). Still, the theory is useful.
Thanks for the quick reply.
February 20th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
and keep up the great work!
May 13th, 2010 at 3:59 am
I’m on a mac using c4d & After effects (not fusion) – just starting switching to linear workflow.
Will this be of use to me?
May 13th, 2010 at 8:31 am
Hi Steve, I dont specifically deal with working in a linear workflow in this tutorial, so if that’s something you were hoping to get out of it, the’s not much info about it. All the major topic points are listed above. Thanks!
June 11th, 2010 at 7:24 am
The videos on this are lengthy, no fluff, and extremely informative for whatever 3d and comp package you choose to use.
I bought this set this morning and can’t wait to watch them!
Great work Kert! Looking forward to future videos!
June 11th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Glad you’re enjoying the tutorials! Let me know if you have any comments or questions!
November 4th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Kert, hi, along time my friend. So, i wondering, when you came with another but/training tutorial like this!!!, please make some!, maybe for color grading?, maybe for 3d in deep?, maybe stereo production?, cheers my friend, hope you are ok!
November 4th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Hi Christobal! I’m doing well, I’ve just been super busy and haven’t had time to make any new tutorials lately. Hopefully i’ll have some time over the winter!
TTYL!
November 3rd, 2012 at 6:38 am
Hello !
I’m interesting in buying this video ..just wanna ask you talk about composing passes in eyeon fusion , from a animation schene or rather like photo? From cinema it’s an animated schene ?
thank you.
November 3rd, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Hey Kamorra, everything that I cover in the tutorial applies to moving images as well as stills. The techniques are universal.