I no longer use Fusion for compositing. I’m sure you’re all waiting for some epic story explaining why I forsook such a noble program. You wait in vain. Fusion was never the final goal. Below I will list some of the factors that went into my decision to make the switch now.
- The advice of an extremely talented Nuke artist.
- New hardware that is capable of handling massive node trees.
- A desire to push myself and learn new things.
- A more professional pipeline that I developed for an upcoming project that I’ll be doing VFX work on.
I’ve really enjoyed making the switch and will provide an update once I’ve spent some more time in Nuke (probably some months from now). In the meantime, let me give you some of the advantages of using Nuke over any other program.
- Nuke is the Industry Standard.
- Nuke is EXTREMELY Powerful.
- Nuke is Fast.
- Nuke is Full of the Tools Needed To Make Cinema Quality Visuals.
- Nuke has a more Powerful 3D Workspace.
There are many other reasons that I could have stated, but that’ll do for today. I look forward to making countless projects in Nuke in the years ahead, but am also grateful for the foundation that Fusion gave me in Node-based Compositing. Keep learning and growing!
Samuel