It’s been used in films ranging from Avatar to Game of Thrones to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to - thank God - Therapy Dogs. Roberts is now Fusion’s Product Manager at Blackmagic Design.įusion is widely used for compositing, keying, painting, rotoscoping, animation, titling, 3D particle systems, stereoscopic 3D and more, and can be used to composite several elements together to create realistic final images of VFX shots. Blackmagic acquired it in 2014, and Fusion is now integrated into Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve post-production software, available for $295.

It has evolved into a VFX software used in 2D and 3D compositing, virtual reality and motion graphics. Roberts and his former company, eyeon Software, first created Fusion back in 1987. So at the convention’s Blackmagic Design booth, Eng approached Roberts. One way he had tried to shoot the fall scene was with a mannequin, but it didn’t look real enough for him. “But I got really lucky, because I went to a cinema convention.” “Yeah, that’s kind of where my mind was,” says Eng. And part of me just thought, you know, this would make a better story if I just did it.”Īt this point the person interviewing Eng utters, “Oh, my God.” Because he’s talking about falling from a huge water tower, and he was just 17 at the time, and not a professional stunt person, and… no. “And we tried thinking of all sorts of things, and everything was, like, stupid. And I would go to bed some nights and think about how I’m going to pull this off.

And I didn’t want to chicken out of this one. “Everything we do in the movie in terms of stunts is pretty real.

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