Blender to Fusion integration in the works?
Gottfried Hofmann spotted an interesting comment in a magazine that seems to point to a Blender/Fusion integration. Following the news of Pixar people working on a Blender plug-in, is this the start of large companies actively working on Blender support for their products?
The May issue of Digital Production features an interview with John Paul Docherty, who worked on “Kingsmen: The Secret Service” for the studion “Doc & A Soc”. He worked mainly with Fusion, but also used some Blender on the film. The more interesting thing is that he noticed “many people working on systems to integrate Blender and Fusion”.
Did anyone in the Blender community hear about that as well?
Blender will destroy Autodesk mwahahahaha !
blender already do this :)
Fusion is, basically, a modeling tool. So, what is the point? Integrate a proprietary modeling tool with Blender, which is a opensource modeling tool and much, much more? I would be more exciting if we were talking about, for example, integrate Blender with Ozone (http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/ozone/) which do things that Blender doesn’t … yet.
I always thought Fusion was more of a compositing tool no?
I haven’t actually used it, so I could definitely be wrong though.
You may be confusing Fusion for something else – it’s 2D comping software that supports a 3d workspace – it doesn’t have anything to do with 3D modelling.
I think they are talking about Blackmagic Fusion: http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion/features
Which is fantastic and has a good free version.
The Fusion I know (beside cold fusion) is this one? Is this software we are talking about?
I forgot the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3rMGH6sLBQ
He means Digital Fusion for compositing and Blender for any 3d
I think they mean this https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/fusion
More importantly…
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/release/20150413-02
Yaay! Blackmagic listen to their customers. Even those who only use the free version (though to be fair, I do own a BMPCC). I asked them to add this feature months ago, and they told me it had been added as a feature request. I wish this comes soon.
However, Blender should up its game, since the Editor in Chief of RedSharkNews agrees with me that the next logical move for Blackmagic is buying Softimage from Autodesk. And that means a free version. And that means Blender will no longer be a monopoly, no longer the only good free 3D software package.
Wow. Fusion 8 for OSX and Linux….. Now yes, have sense to make a Blender-Fusion integration.
“Fusion 8 for Mac OS X and Windows will be available free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website in Q3, and Fusion 8 Studio for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux will be available for US$995, as well for download from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge for all current Fusion customers.”
This means that the only Linux version is the paid one?
no, there will be a free version for windows and osx and a paid “studio” version for windows, osx and linux
In our company, we use Blender X Fusion …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Gx4H-mPw
Hey cool! Same setup as us :)
Sounds good, if he mean “Fusion 7 Free” integration with Blender.
Or it’s another software of Fusion name?)
i’m working on this one:
https://vimeo.com/133226455
I don’t know nothing about “black magic” (except what I saw in Harry Potter). I never used Fusion. What I know about fusion is what I saw on Autodesk site. For example: http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview
What I see there is things that Blender can do easily. I think that this kind of colaboration is good if one part have the bread and the second part have the cheese. I doubt that this is the case here.
It’s nice that the CG industry recognizes that Blender is a respectable and powerful software. My concern is that this supposed partnership is with Autodesk, which have the behavior of a amoeba, absorbing other companies only to extinguish them.
this is realy about Blackmagic Design Fusion, former eyeon Fusion, or eyeon digital fusion.
BMD Fusion is a dedicated compositing software
Ah, ok! I’m relieved that it’s not about Autodesk. With all respect for the technicians that work there, I don’t like their attitude on the cg industry.
Thank you for your clarifying!
Blackmagic is a big company in the film industry, they’re the Da Vinci Resolve developers, one of the most powerful color grading software out there. (Blackmagic) Fusion is more like Nuke than Blender, even if Blender can do most of what a film needs, it still somewhat poor when dealing with video, video compositing softwares like Nuke and Fusion are still a step ahead cause they where made with video in mind, not 3d, 3d is a “plus”. Natron is a open source compositing software very similar, but it needs to grow more.
Ah, well again, your fears are unfounded old fellow – as multiple posters have now pointed out, the story has nothing to do with Fusion 360 by Autodesk, it’s about Fusion from Black Magic Design. You should Google them some time, they’re awesome. And just to confirm, the article definitely ISNT about Fusion 360, okay?
I thought I’d download BlackMagic Fusion and have a play. While its interface and node system is oddly familiar to a Blender user, Fusion has one major difference. It crashes. I had added a 3D text object and was using the properties panel to rotate it… gone. Fusion disappeared. It had already crashed once while trying to ungroup a node group. Seems like my current project – which requires lots of text captions floating around my objects – is definitely going to be completed in Blender, because it simply works!
If the article is indeed referring to Blackmagic Fusion, this really excites me. My studio implements a Blender->Fusion pipeline, so it would be great to get better integrated 3D support. Right now we have to export render layers from Blender into image sequences and import them into Fusion for compositing.
To REACTION’s comment, we’ve never had an issue with Fusion crashing. Are you confident your system has enough horsepower to handle it? Programs like Fusion and DaVinci tend to be more taxing on a computer than Blender is.
what kind of integration do you looking for?
exporting renderelements/-layers into compositing is common practice, if you need your 3d scene in fusion you can use fbx ex-/import. worked quiet good for me so far
and probaly you have seen i’m working on a exporter to transfer blender motion tracking data and cameras into fusion
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?360023-AddOn-Export-Camera-to-BMD-Fusion
hey! how to import character animation from blender… Into fusion 8?
depending on what you want to do with it you can just render everything
or you can import fbx or alembic files into fusion