Digital Fusion 101 , Training by Fred Pienkos
 Digital Fusion is the compositing tool of choice for the artists who demand the highest quality tools, speed, efficiency and the scalability to tackle a small project or managing hundreds of shots for a feature film. Traditionally, Fusion has been used by a variety of production houses worldwide because of its diverse work flow. Depending on how compositors like to work, Fusion offers compatible methodologies.
Digital Fusion 4 is eyeon’s flagship product and marks the ninth major release of this powerful compositor, and with the release of Fusion 5 later this year, extreme care and planning went into this introduction to fusion to cover topics that all transfer through to the new version, so you can hit the ground running with the basic knowledge of Fusions workflow when Fusion 5 is finally released.
Highlighted in this suite of tutorials are introductions to the interface and customizing preferences for your production requirements. Also covered is a complete explanation of all the hidden features of Fusions simple tools such as Loaders, Fast Noises, and backgrounds, and then we move forward to a few compositing examples in fusion such as several tracking and stabilization examples and more.
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Artists Profiles
Fred Pienkos has covered many corners of the industry, having started his career in 1993 in video games and later in commercial animation for top Chicago ad agencies. Moving to Santa Monica in 1999 to pursue a career in film and television at Digital Muse and then EdenFX in Hollywood, which he helped form, Fred continued to work on television shows such as X-Files, Star Trek Voyager, 7 Days, Star Trek Enterprise, Amazing Race, Haunted, Six Feet Under and Alias. He has worked on such feature films as Star Trek Nemesis and Hellboy, and his music video credits include Janet Jackson, Aerosmith, and Mick Jagger.
Fred continues to work as a CGI Artist & Compositor at EdenFX where he was recently nominated and awarded a 2004 Emmy Award as well as a 2004 VES (Visual Effects Society) Award for his work on Paramount Studios Star Trek Enterprise.
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