I’ve just released my next free Blackmagicdesign Fusion Tutorial on my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
This time I talk about Masking, the Polygon Mask tool and the BSpline Mask tool. You can follow along with DaVinci Resolve on the Fusion Page or in Fusion Studio.
Have fun!
Helge
After a longer pause I’ve released a new free tutorial on my YouTube channel. I hope you like it 🙂
👉 https://youtu.be/RTIdh-ZsbTo
In this tutorial, you will learn the general uses and workflows of Masks in Fusion / Fusion Page in Resolve.
You will learn the different Mask types in Fusion, the most important parameters and options when drawing them. Also we will look into how to combine Masks for complex shapes for Rotoscoping. And, we will talk about bitmap based Masks in Fusion and how to use the Magic Mask, the Bitmap Mask and the Paint Mask.
I hope you like this new tutorial.
If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.
If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d
or give me a fast Coffee time Tip:
👉 PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain
The End of the year brings us time to reflect, relax and to learn something new!
Let’s start learning Blender with our „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals – Fast Forward“ publication.
👉 YouTube Trailer
More than 20+ hours of content in over 114 lessons.
Learn everything you need to know for beginners and folks from other 3D applications.
Our gift for you is a Holiday Voucher for VIMEO VOD or GUMROAD.
Use „XMAS2022“ at checkout and you get 20% off.
👉 VIMEO „XMAS2022“
https://vimeo.com/r/3E4j/NnJYVjlwam
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https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/BlenderFundamentals/XMAS2022
Have a great Holiday,
Helge
One month after launching our “pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals” publication, we added today another Plus+ content chapter with more than 2.5 hours (12 lessons) to the package.
Free for every existing customer, of course 🙂
You now get a guided Introduction to the Blender Sculpting environment, it’s tools and workflows like Dyntopo, Remeshing and Multires. Also we work on two little projects to practice the new learned skills.
The full publication with over 20+ hours including this and coming Plus+ content is available on Blender Market, Gumroad and as VIMEO Video-on-Demand:
👉 YouTube Trailer
👉 Blender Market
https://blendermarket.com/products/pixeltrain-blender-fundamentals-fast-forward
👉 VIMEO Video-on-DemandÂ
👉 GUMROAD
https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/BlenderFundamentals
Have fun,
Helge
Just finished the Blender Market shop for our new publication.
At the moment it’s just the new “Blender Fundamentals Training”, but many more will follow in the near future. Promise 🙂
Learn the Fundamentals of the Merge tool & the almighty Channel Booleans tool in Fusion Studio.
Here is the Link to the tutorial and the whole series. VFX Compositing Techniques with Merge & Channel Booleans in Fusion Studio.
In this tutorial series, we will talk about Blackmagic Fusion Studio and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (Fusion page) as a professional VFX Compositing package. We will dive into basic workflows and techniques to make your daily compositing work more effective and fun.
In this tutorial, you will learn the Fundamentals of Fusions Deep Pixel workflows, which gives you as a compositing artist an extremely powerful toolset inside of Fusion. You will see which data channels are transported through the composition node flow as Deep Pixel information to help specialized Fusion tools / nodes to make operations like SSAO, Re-Lighting, Re-Texturing, Depth of Field, Vector MotionBlur, Depth Merging, Z-based Masking, ObjectIDs, MaterialIDs and much more. You will see how to generate them directly in the OpenGL renderer of Fusion from a 3D scene so that you can later use the same techniques with MultiChannel EXRs from other 3D packages like Blender, Maya and Houdini.
If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.
If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d
or give me a fast Coffee time Tip:PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain
These topics are covered in this tutorial:
00:00 Overview of the series and the lesson
00:38 Deep Compositing in NUKEX vs Deep Pixel in Fusion
01:04 What is the Deep Pixel Approach?
04:20 Importing Data into Resolve
05:30 Generating a Fusion Comp inside Resolve
06:55 Bringing a Fusion Studio composition to DaVinci Resolve
08:37 Working with 3D-Scenes in Fusion
10:15 Renderer3D Node
13:12 Understanding Multichannel EXR channels
13:42 Channel mapping in Loaders and MediaIn
16:20 Setting Output Channels for Deep Pixel
17:00 Sampling channels in the Viewer
17:46 Z-Depth
19:31 Deep Pixel Tools / Nodes
19:59 Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) Tool
20:38 Normals
21:05 Settings and usage for Ambient Occlusion
24:12 Depth Blur Tool for Depth of Field
27:55 Fog Tool & Settings
29:03 Volume Fog Tool for Position-based Masking
30:00 World Position Pass
33:20 Using Volume Fog as a Mask
34:45 Z-Merge / Depth-based Merge operations
37:13 Motion Vectors & MotionBlur with the Vector Blur Tool
39:38 Working with ObjectID and MaterialID
42:21 ReLighting & Reflections with the Shader Tool
46:50 Re-Texturing with the Texture Tool
47:44 Understanding UVs / Texture Coordinates
48:45 Outro
As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas. He focuses on Houdini FX, Blender, and NUKE for his daily work and training.
Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixeltrain
Blog: http://www.helgemaus.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/web/@pixeltrain3d
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Here is the second part of last weeks tutorial. In this second part of lesson two, we will examine how to work with Fusion inside of DaVinci Resolve. I will show you different ways of making Fusion composites, some on the timeline, but also independent from the timeline. Also, you will learn how to have several versions on Fusion comps on a Timeline Clip for making variants or versions of your work.
Then we will discuss and solve some of the most asked problems when working with Fusion inside of the DaVinci Resolve Environment, for example how to import EXR and PNG sequences from Blender and other DCCs, how and when to use MediaIn Nodes correctly, how to add Loaders and Savers to your toolbar, how to split EXRs in severals Loaders with the Hos_SplitEXR script and how to get your Linear EXRs correctly into the Viewer.
Also, we talk very briefly about ColorManagement for VFX assets in DaVinci Resolve and where to find the Resolve FX OFX plugins, which you can directly use inside of Fusion in the DaVinci Resolve Environment.
It’s quite a long tutorial, but I believe that it gives you everything you have to know if your want to start comping with Fusion inside of DaVinci Resolve and helps you around the common pitfalls.
If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.
If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:
Become a Patron!or give me a fast Coffee time tip:
PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain
Have fun!
In this tutorial series, we will talk about Blackmagic Fusion Studio and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (Fusion page) as a professional VFX Compositing package. We will dive into basic workflows and techniques to make your daily compositing work more effective and fun.
We start this tutorial by discussing the differences between using Fusion inside of the free version of DaVinci Resolve to the paid version of Fusion Studio and DaVinci Resolve Studio. I give you a list of features, what you get in the paid versions and why they are so useful in production. Also we talk about the differences in working in Fusion Studio vs the Fusion Page in DaVinci Resolve and when which of these workflows are more useful.
After that we will dive into Fusion Studio to learn about basic Fusion concepts, beginning with the User Interface, Node Trees, Tools and a first composite from Loader to the Saver for the final output. This should help you to understand Fusion as a node-based compositor and helps you in understanding the more advanced workflows in the second part of this lesson, which will then dive into Fusion Compositing inside of the DaVinci Resolve Environment.
These topics are covered in this tutorial:
00:00 Overview of the series
00:28 Topics list for lesson 02, part 01 & part 02
03:45 DaVinci Resolve / Fusion Studio free vs. Paid
08:34 Fusion Studio UI Overview
10:36 Compositing Settings / Global Settings
11:36 Frame Format, Frame Rate fps and Color Depth
12:53 Adding Nodes & Tools
14:05 Loading footage
14:22 Preview options in the Loader tool
15:21 Working with the Fusion Viewer
16:23 Adjusting the compositing length
17:09 Preview area in the timeline
17:35 Caching the timeline
18:20 Loading additional logos
19:07 Adding a text tool
19:24 Adding a sequential node
20:04 Arrange tools in the node graph
20:23 Merge Node and Transformations
20:35 Auto Proxy option in the Viewer
21:00 Faster ways of merging Nodes
21:53 Outputting a compositing with a Saver
22:47 Output Settings
23:08 Color Depth Settings for Source Nodes
24:16 Loader Setting for the import
25:06 Starting a Render Job
25:49 Importing an EXR sequence
27:20 Viewer options for transparencies
28:22 Setting a Viewer Gamma 2.2
29:09 Changing the Gamma in the Fusion View LUT
29:54 Using the Stefan Ihringer Viewer LUTS from Reactor
30:31 Setting the Preview Range
30:39 Importance of right mouse button on ui elements
31:15 Working with Audio in Fusion Studio
32:14 Overview over the next part of Lesson 02b
As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas. He focuses on Houdini FX, Blender, and NUKE for his daily work and training.
If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.
If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:
Become a Patron!or give me a fast Coffee time tip:
PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain
Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixeltrain
Blog: http://www.helgemaus.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/web/@pixeltrain3d
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/pixeltrain
How to solve an un-solvable shot without parallax? In this lesson we will talk about that.
Have fun!
Helge
These topics are covered in this tutorial:
If you want to use the same footage, here is my Gumroad link:
https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/GEdjT
Be aware, that these files are included in my Patreon 😉
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d
This tutorial series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. In these tutorials, I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected. I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions.
As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas. He focuses on Houdini FX, Blender, and NUKE for his daily work and training.
