Hasta La Motion!

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

Hey everyone, I’m trying to find out what the community honestly thinks of FXPHD. I’m thinking of doing some of their Nuke (and Maya) courses since I’m ready to make a transition from After Effects to a node based compositing package. I took a look at Gnomon but that is way out of my price range and from what I saw the intro to Nuke DVD was a little old. I can pull just over $300 to get some quality training, but I don’t want to throw away that money for something that’s not going to help me. What do you think?

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It is an HP server, and I don’t know anything about compatibility issues.
I called to the tecnical support end they didn’t want to offer anything to me. (good way to make money).

Could anybody help please?