FUS110 – Fusion Fundamentals, Part 1

This course, taught by Rony Soussan, is the second in a series of introductory level classes covering Blackmagic Fusion.
The classes are more practical oriented with exercises that range from linear workflow all the way to 3D. At the end of these two courses you should have all the tools needed to start compositing professionally using Fusion. Part #2 of the course can be found here.

Rony has been a VFX artist for 30 years and started as a CG animator in Softimage. He quickly moved on to composing and has now been using fusion for over two decades. His credits range from music videos to compositing supervisor on feature film.

Course syllabus

CLASS 1: GETTING STARTED
The interface, using nodes and viewers all the way to render.

CLASS 2: MERGES
Resolution independent and coordinates system in Fusion and how that affects the basic composition structure. You will complete your first simple comp using these paradigms.

CLASS 3: STRUCTURED COMPOSITION
Using multi-passes, channel mapping, alpha multiply and divide workflows, depth tools and more.

CLASS 4: ROTO
How matte operations are acommplished and the types of roto tools from spline shapes to paint. You will experiment with different roto techniques on the same subject and learn about how all of these methods work together to build comprehensive roto workflow.

CLASS 5: ROTO & MATTES
A practical example using all the roto methods to extract a car from the background using roto and some more advanced techniques like planar and point trackers.