Stabilization | From Shaky Beginnings | A Tranquility

In this tutorial, we use Eyeon Fusion 6 and take a look at stabilizing a piece of footage. Once the footage is stable, we “paint” out two unwanted objects from the shot using a quick and simple technique. We then complete the shot with some quick colour corrections.

Hope you enjoy it!

If you want to see the same tutorial, but using After Effects CS5, check out this tutorial here:
http://vfxhaiku.com/2010/08/stabilization-and-object-removal-with-after-effects-cs5/

In this tutorial, we take a look at my personal workflow on how to run Fusion on OSX. I use a wide variety of tools including Bootcamp, Parallels, NTFS-3G, and MacDrive to make this possible. If you have any comments or questions on this workflow, just let me know.

Thanks!

Fusion on OSX? | On many people’s wish lists | It *IS* possible

Bootcamp: This allows you to boot your Mac as a windows PC. It’s essentially the same as buying a PC with windows when you’re in boot camp. You have access to the full hardware, and your software can run to its full potential

Parallels: My tool of choice for running Fusion along side OSX. Parallels allows you to use your boot camp partition in a virtualized environment. This is extremely handy so you can boot into Bootcamp when you need full power to your PC apps, or use the same partition and run windows apps along side Mac OSX apps.

VMware Fusion: Another virtualization software similar to Parallels. I haven’t used this one, so I can’t tell you if it’s better for running Fusion or not. If anyone has any experience with it, let me know in the comments!

NTFS-3G: An system pref for OSX that allows OSX to read/write to NTFS partitions.

Mac Drive: A piece of Windows software that allows you to read/write to HFS and HFS+ formatted drives. Mac OSX drives are formatted with HFS+

A 3D Journey | Information Parity | Stereo Knowledge

This is a recording of a presentation I gave in October of 2008 on Frantic Films work on Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.

There’s quite a few topics covered here including:

Post-vis, 3D tracking Stereo footage, Fluid Simulations, Creature design, Compositing Passes, Creature Rigs, Particle tests with Krakatoa, Cloth Simulations, 2D look Developlemt, and common problems with 3D Stereo Footage.

There’s a bunch of behind the scenes stuff here that normally doesn’t make it out of a VFX studio, so I hope you enjoy it!

Let me know if you have any comments of questions!

Thanks!

From Layers to Nodes | Mountain of Learning Awaits | Your Journey starts Here!

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.

Camera Disturbance | Not a Rhythmic Displacement | Shake is more Random

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to create realisitc looking camera shake. Rather than using the stock Camera Shake node, we create our own custom shake using a transform and the shake modifier on various properties.

In this 45 minute tutorial, we take a look at a final shot for the Open Cut 3.0 Challenge created with Fusion 5.3, and look at every tool involved in putting this shot together.

Compositing Love… | Every Single Node Explained | Details are the Key…

Here’s some links to topics and plugins that are refered to in this tutorial:

The big transition | We look for the common ground | From layers to nodes

In this tutorial, we take an introductory 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 one of this tutorial, we take a look at the differences in importing footage in After Effects VS. a node based compositing application (in this case Fusion 5).

We also cover:

• Different frame rates
• Straight VS. Post Multiplied alphas, and explaining the difference
• Removing fields
• Setting pixel aspect ratios
• Looping your footage

Real time re-lighting | It is not a fantasy | 2D FTW!

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to export a Normals pass from Cinema 4D, and how to use it to re-light objects in 2D inside of After effects and Fusion 5.

You can download the Normality Plugin for After Effects here:
http://minning.de/software/normality

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.

Advanced techniques | Taken to the next level | Your skills will increase!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:

Cinema 4D:

Adobe After Effects:

Eyeon Fusion:

Adobe Photoshop:

What’s included in the Download?

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!

In rainbow colours | We find new information: | The co-ordinates!

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to export UV and Object Buffer passes from Cinema 4D, and how to use those passes to re-texture objects in 2D inside of Fusion 5.

Here’s the link to the watering can scene used in this tutorial.
Youveelizer UV Mapping plugin for After Effects
Re:Vision FX RE:Map Plugin for After Effects

If you have any comments or questions, please, feel free to ask!

Thanks!