Eyeon 5.2 and 64
This morning, Eyeon announced Fusion 64; Fusion 5.2 comes to Siggraph with a list of previously unannounced features, among them 3D LUTs, FBX, 3DS, OBJ and Collada import improvements, Python scripting, a vector motion blur tool, and lots more.
Fusion 64 brings 64 bit to desktop compositing. This is one of the bigger responses to the opportunity presented by multi-core and multi-processor workstations. Hopefully more to come. Fusion 64 shares a lot (all?) of the new feature in 5.2.
The popular software-that-could is in its second decade of being used on too many big effects films and games to name.
Cafe FX built its business on a Fusion foundation some 12 years ago and stuck with it, now using their Fusion pipeline on Frank Darabont’s take on Stephen King’s The Mist and on the HBO mini-series biography on John Adams.
One of the Cafe FX artists–Richard Reed–is demoing on the Eyeon booth and points out that Fusion suits the increasingly blurry line between 2D and 3D. A Shake/Nuke vet, Reed found the transition to Fusion pretty easy overall. “It’s an excellent resource for artists,” he says, “lighters are becoming compositors, the lines between artists are disappering. Fusion supports that well because of the 3D workspace and it’s only getting better.”
If you’re here, try to catch Rob Taylor (Pendulum Studios) demo on Stuntman 2: Ignition.
