Description
Pre-Release
- Start with 8h of video training & exercises (approx. half of the course)
- Receive the remaining videos and exercises between February and April 2020
- Enjoy life-time access to the course
10 EUR discount until the official course release. (Around end of April).
Summary
This Course is for everyone who wants to dive deep into the art & craft of compositing with Fusion.
This is an intermediate to advanced level, intensive course.
Compositing is about extracting and combining images from different sources into a new coherent photo-realistic result. At the heart of it is Rotoscoping, Keying, Tracking, Integration and more. This course takes each of those classical topics to a deeper level that few other courses reach.
Watch the Course Intro:
More than Tools!
- It’s not about loading and saving – Set up a linear workflow, understand domain of definition, color bit depth, gamma, gamut and more.
- It’s not about using the Polygon mask – Extract an actor by covering the human anatomy with multiple roto-shapes and animate them for consistent edge detail.
- It’s not about the Delta Keyer – Build andvanced keying workflows with multiple preprocessing techniques, screen correction, adaptive despill, custom luma keyers and more.
- It’s not just about tools – learn compositing in depth!
This Course Offers
- 8h of Video lessons righ now, more will be added between February to April 2020!
- Exercise packages with practice footage and solutions for Resolve and Fusion Studio.
- Realistic footage that you may use online and in your demo reel.
- 30-day money back guarantee - no questions asked!
- Multiple Case Studies (will be added soon).
- Quiz for each chapter
- Lifetime access
Choose your preferred software – this course is designed for both:
DaVinci Resolve
All demos are shown in Resolve and Resolve Project files are included for all exercises.
Fusion Studio
Fusion *.comp files are included for all exercises. Differences between Fusion Studio and Resolve are demonstrated where they apply.
Who Should Take this Course?
This course is ideal if you…
- ...have taken another VFXStudy course for Fusion before. OR
- ...have worked through multiple tutorials or your own projects and feel comfortable with the software in general.
You should…
- ...be familiar with node-based compositing
- ...understand the Fusion viewers and general interface
- ...be able to load/save, import/export, and render
- ...feel comfortable with masks and keyframe animations
- ...know the most important tools. For example, you know most tools you see in the Fusion onscreen toolbar.
Expert knowledge is not required. Perhaps you have not used the Delta Keyer or the 3D tracker before. That’s ok. All exercises are built step by step. However, if you are just starting with Fusion, this course may be overwhelming, and you may want to check out the Free Beginner Course – Fusion in DaVinci Resolve first.
Description Per Chapter
Understand high level hardware considerations for Fusion as well as general settings and concepts that are used throughout this course.
Back to the Basics! Learn about the anatomy of an image and everything about how Fusion handles the frame size, domain of definition, color depth, color space, alpha pre and post multiplication, as well as recommended image file formats for compositing.
Sometimes it cannot be avoided. If you have to rotoscope an actor, here is how you can do it. Learn how to break down the human anatomy into simple shapes and track the movement with consistent edges. Use temporary shapes, add motion blur, or combine roto with keying and paint techniques when needed.
Learn about the variety of different keying issues, set up a linear workflow, and get started with building your own tools with custom curves, color space transformations and more. Here you also review Fusion’s keying tools and see what functionality they have in common and learn to create advanced workflows to combine multiple keying and despill operations.
Coming Soon (Feb - Apr, 2020):
Here comes the nitty-gritty detail. Learn about the impact of chroma subsampling as well as noise and grain. Use advanced techniques to create a clean plate and performa a screen correction for an uneven greenscreen before the keying process. Learn different despill techniques including an adaptive despill for better edges. Finally, you see advanced ways to handle edges and to add blonde hair detail with a custom luma keyer. A deep dive into the advanced settings of the delta keyer concludes the chapter.
No matter if your footage is coming from Roto, Keying or 3D. You need to match color, deal with edge effects, interactive lighting and create convincing shadows.
Learn advanced tracking workflows with point tracker, planar tracker and the 3D camera tracker.
Use multipass exr files, explore the most common render passes, and learn the workflows to combine them.
Here, everything comes together in realistic case studies. In each example you will start from scratch and create a polished shot.
Case Study 1: Interview Situation
A mid-budget greenscreen scenario of an interview with a variety of keying and integration problems.
Case Study 2: Blender Tears of Steel Movie
A high-end greenscreen shot with 3D camera movement.
Case Study 3: 3D Set Extension
Example for a set extension with 2D and 3D techniques combined.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have further questions. Looking forward to seeing you in the course!
JiPi (verified owner) –
Half of the course has been completed and I would like to give a short interim review.
I am very exited. The content is very well structured and well explained. Not only the pure application but also the “why”. There is no “idle” and so you need the stop / rewind / play process often, which is absolutely fine.
Admittedly, chapter three is dry and you have to struggle a bit, but it was still interesting and important.
I look forward to the remaining chapters.
Tarekabdelhafez (verified owner) –
After completing the this part, can give a very positive feedback about the course. It has many good points that classify it as a very good training such as structure, materials, pace, … etc. However, this course is distinguished in explaining the WHY and HOW for the big VFX puzzle. I enjoy very much the journey when someone till me WHY we are doing this and how it fits toward the target. Moreover, gives the HOW in a structured way. I can say this course takes me several steps ahead in learning VFX and post production in general.
Thank you very much and eager to see the next chapters as contents seem more exciting!
Jepton (verified owner) –
I have lost count of the number of courses and tutorials On Fusion which explain the simple, straightforward stuff in great detail. Then when it comes to the deeper, fundamental material, it’s glossed over, often limited to listing menu choices with no explanation of what they do and no attempt to delve into what’s ‘under the hood’.
This course and other courses by Bernd, are nothing like this. So far I have learned so much about Fusion with many of the subjects covered to me for the first time in an in-depth way. I am very much looking forward to to the rest of the course. Its sometimes hard work to take it all in and benefits from revisiting occasionally but overall an excellent purchase. Highly recommended.