My journey / No Fusion books?!?! WHY??

Hey guys, I’m new here and this is my first thread.

I always loved looking at specials effects for movies and how they did it. So about a year ago I decided to learn it on my own.

I started out by playing around with Maya, I bought some books and I kind of got the basic knowledge of how it works, and what tools do. I enjoyed it for a while, but after getting to know that modeling is just one of the steps in specials effects, I decided I’d learn a compositing software.

The first thing that popped in my mind was After Effects. Why not right? I’m familiar with Photoshop and Illustrator. So i bought a book, and I started learning from there, I also did some tutorials online where I gained some new knowledge.

But after getting to know a little bit more of compositing, I’ve learned that most movies are done in node-base softwares, like Fusion, Nuke, Shake (By the way, is it still in use for movies after Apple "killed it"?)

So here’s my first question:

What makes a node-base software better than a layer-base software?
Let’s say:
Fusion X After Effects

So my journey continues, I’ve downloaded the Fusion Learning Edition one day ago, I still didn’t get a lot of time to play around it, but somehow knowing a little bit of Maya helps me understand it better 🙂

Since I don’t want my "hyperness" to go away, I decided to get some books and devote myself to learn it.

But that’s the problem!!!

I CAN"T FIND A SINGLE BOOK ABOUT IT!?!!

How come such a well respected compositing software, used in a bunch of different movies don’t have a single book about it?

Is it some kind of a secret society where you go to your local library and you say a password, and the person taking care of you brings you back a book and tells you to don’t say anything? haha i know I’m being silly here, and I also know that the book:

The Art and Science of Digital Compositing,

is based on Fusion 2.5?! (at least that’s what I read)

But isn’t there a book where I could get all the knowledge a beginner should get?

If you guys know courses, school classes, tutorial sites that teach you how to get around Fusion I would appreciate it A LOT!

For the experts out there, just a curious question. How did you guys learn your compositing software?

Right now I have this goal in my head, and I want to keep fighting for it, all help is VERY welcomed!

Thank you guys!

I’m really glad I found this website!

-Sneaky Money

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