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- Real Name: Pascal Fuerst
Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:36 am
Hey BM-Team,
I’m a Motion Graphics and VFX artist who over the last decade worked mainly in Adobe After Effects and is now trying to incorporate Fusion Studio more and more into my workflow. Especially after using it on some shots for a feature film for doing camera projection that I couldn’t easily do in AE I think Fusion will be used way more often and maybe even become my main compositor of choice.
What has always surprised me is that BM isn’t actively advertising Fusion Studio to the vfx artists as an Alternative to the other big players. When you hear about Fusion than mostly as an additional page in the DaVinci program. I think a lot of artists know about it but don’t really know what it is capable of doing.
The main reason is probably the lack of good and in-depth tutorial content using real world shots(the ones that deal with day to day problems not the easy ones that you almost always see in YT videos). For me the saying “Nodes are scary” didn’t apply but the lack of training and experts to ask for help held me back for years. Sure there a few really good ones like the Pirates of ConFusion series or MilloLabs Tuts but overall this is just not enough. On the old eyeon YT channel you can still find a few of those in-depth tutorials which to some degree are still useful but new ones would be really welcomed.
The manual isn’t too bad and gives some general help but also lacks some further explanation on how certain node settings affect the outcome. It also just scratches the surface and doesn’t go deep enough to help in real world situations.
There is the amazing community from we-suck-less and the Pirates-of-Confusion Discord channel where someone can get help but if you are just starting out you might not know about those and even though you will probably get help there it might take a couple of hours or days before someone can find the time to help you.
Another problem of Fusion is the lack of presets and templates. Sure there are a few in the bins but those are rather dated, not that easy to find(I found it by accident CTRL+B) and for newer tools like the shapes system or USD you can’t find anything in there. Presets are always a good starting point for quick turnaround projects and also gives an artist a good impression on how a certain tool should/might be used.
Overall Fusion Studio is such a nice piece of software but also has some quirks(with a larger userbase of professionals those would be found and reported more frequently) and with BM being more aggressive on advertising Fusion to the VFX and MG artists this could become the Nr.1 app of choice for a lot us.
I’m a Motion Graphics and VFX artist who over the last decade worked mainly in Adobe After Effects and is now trying to incorporate Fusion Studio more and more into my workflow. Especially after using it on some shots for a feature film for doing camera projection that I couldn’t easily do in AE I think Fusion will be used way more often and maybe even become my main compositor of choice.
What has always surprised me is that BM isn’t actively advertising Fusion Studio to the vfx artists as an Alternative to the other big players. When you hear about Fusion than mostly as an additional page in the DaVinci program. I think a lot of artists know about it but don’t really know what it is capable of doing.
The main reason is probably the lack of good and in-depth tutorial content using real world shots(the ones that deal with day to day problems not the easy ones that you almost always see in YT videos). For me the saying “Nodes are scary” didn’t apply but the lack of training and experts to ask for help held me back for years. Sure there a few really good ones like the Pirates of ConFusion series or MilloLabs Tuts but overall this is just not enough. On the old eyeon YT channel you can still find a few of those in-depth tutorials which to some degree are still useful but new ones would be really welcomed.
The manual isn’t too bad and gives some general help but also lacks some further explanation on how certain node settings affect the outcome. It also just scratches the surface and doesn’t go deep enough to help in real world situations.
There is the amazing community from we-suck-less and the Pirates-of-Confusion Discord channel where someone can get help but if you are just starting out you might not know about those and even though you will probably get help there it might take a couple of hours or days before someone can find the time to help you.
Another problem of Fusion is the lack of presets and templates. Sure there are a few in the bins but those are rather dated, not that easy to find(I found it by accident CTRL+B) and for newer tools like the shapes system or USD you can’t find anything in there. Presets are always a good starting point for quick turnaround projects and also gives an artist a good impression on how a certain tool should/might be used.
Overall Fusion Studio is such a nice piece of software but also has some quirks(with a larger userbase of professionals those would be found and reported more frequently) and with BM being more aggressive on advertising Fusion to the VFX and MG artists this could become the Nr.1 app of choice for a lot us.
