Node Based Compositing for After Effects Users – Part 2
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In this tutorial, we take a more in-depth look at node based compositing from the perspective of an After Effects user. If you are someone who has lots of experience with After Effects, and wants to get into using a program like Shake, Nuke, or Fusion, this will help you get on the right track.
In Part two of this tutorial, we take a look at an entire shot built in fusion, and break down the tools one by one, and replicate the shot in After Effects. Hopefully, by seeing how this shot is built in Fusion and in After Effects, it will help you to understand the workflow differences between working with layers and nodes.
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May 25th, 2010 at 6:58 am
Good stuff here in this website, I’m glad I found it
June 12th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Hey Kert,
I can see the advantage of using a node based workflow for compositing type work. But what are your opinions on creating motion graphics in fusion vs aftereffects? I was going through lesson 94 on video copilot (particle explosion) and was wondering if that’s achievable.
June 12th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Hey Raimy,
Fusion particles are infinitely more powerful than what’s included in After Effects. It’s really a shame that Eyeon doesn’t market them more, since you can do some pretty cool and complex stuff with them. There’s new additions in 6.1 like caching particles and using geometry to emit and deflect particles that are really powerful features. Doing the particle explosion from Video Copilot is a very simple effect and easily achievable inside of Fusion.
June 12th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
How about the text animation? I have yet to find how to do all the things aftereffects can with text. I suppose one could do the text animation in AF and importing into fusion as a layer. I’m just curious really, and i shouldn’t be flooding the comments with trivial questions.
June 12th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Hey Raimy,
There’s nothing happening in that text animation that can’t be done in fusion. Although I haven’t watched the tutorial, all it really looks like is the text is a still and being shattered with the shatter effect in AE. You could do something similar with Fusion particles.
However, if you were to try and mimic some of AE’s more advanced text animation features, there’s a lot in AE that would be harder to pull off in Fusion. AE’s text animation engine is pretty awesome, and although Fusion’s Text+ tools has *SOME* similar features, AE’s text is definately more robust. Eyeon has a few tutorials about the text plus tool here. Hope this helps!
June 12th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Thanks Kert! Looking forward to more in this series.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:30 am
As I’m slowly making the inevitable transition from AE to Fusion / Nuke, I love this “Nodes for layer guys” approach, thanks so much for making these extremely informative videos.
December 23rd, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Excellent tutorial and overview of comparing.
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