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Robert came to the eyeon head office in Toronto, Canada,
for a little one-on-one course in Fusion. We talked to him
about the experience and how it enriched his skill
level.
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| Q: Tell me about yourself
and how you became interested in
Fusion? | |
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I live in Central Massachusetts and have just finished my
first feature film.
I have been using compositing
tools, AfterEffects and Combustion, throughout post
production. After the film was completed, I began looking
around for better tools to meet my creative needs. I
particularly wanted to see if there was a workflow that was
not layer centric.
I heard about node base
applications, so my search began with looking around the
internet for software solutions. I initially found out about
Fusion when reading an article on the movie Watchmen, in
Variety, and later on the Studio Daily website. I was
impressed by the film credits on the website but more
impressed by the quality of the Visual FX in many of the films
listed as having used Fusion in their post production
pipeline.
After downloading the Fusion learning
edition and several example composites, I embarked on a bit of
self-training to get a feel for the applications UI and
workflow. The node based design was new to me and not working
in layers, as in AfterEffects, was a really nice change. It
did not take me long before I really liked what I saw, so I
purchased a license.
Afterwards, I decided that I
needed some hand-holding to get a jump on the software and get
me up and running. Fusion 6 was an open candidate at the
time, so learning about the changes from 5.3 and getting
some training on the application was a priority.
Besides working on other productions, I am also
preparing another feature film using the Red One camera.
Working with R3D files is important to me. Also knowing that
Fusion supported Red R3D files natively was yet another reason
for my strong interest in the software.
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| Q: Where did you take the
course? | |
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After purchasing a license, I talked to Joanne Dicaire,
who is the Director of Marketing and Sales, and talked over
getting some training on Fusion.
The SWAT training
program sounded great but I did not have the time to wait for
a course in my area, so Joanne was nice enough to set up
a SWAT training session with Jason Kolodziejczak, Senior
Product Specialist, at eyeon headquarters, Toronto Canada.
Jason was awesome and spent a lot of time with me
going over the UI, color correction, keying, and generally the
overall workflow in Fusion 6. I also brought along R3D files
so it was great to see Fusion working seamlessly with the R3D
file format.
It was a great experience and I am glad
for taking advantage of the compressed training period and
meeting some of the people at eyeon in person. |
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| Q. How do feel you benefited
from taking the Fusion
course? | |
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Generally, the training helped me get up to speed on the
software and helped me to better grasp how to work on
composites from a node based perspective.
I highly
recommend training on Fusion for anyone coming from an
AfterEffects type background. Even though the concepts of
compositing are generally easy to understand, the layout and
workflow from application to application can be quite
different and will take a little getting used to. Also,
eyeon's numerous examples and large community of artists are a
real benefit once you have taken the training and get a feel
for the controls. |
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| Q: What was your favourite
part of the course? | |
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Quite simply the ease of how fast you can make changes,
view them, and build up complex composites.
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| Q: Anything else you would
like to share about the course and your experience with
eyeon SWAT (SoftWare Artist
Training) | |
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Yes. The SWAT training was intense but well worth it. And
because Fusion is quite extensive in it's capabilities, maybe
we will see targeted SWAT training in more feature specific
areas like Fusion's 3D workspace.
Thanks again to
Robert for his feedback and much welcomed comments. Be sure to
see the eyeon Events page for a SWAT event near
you.
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