The UK VFX Elite Move In New Direction With Fusion
Soho's top VFX companies get added to the list of major facilities using Fusion

Source: eyeon Software Inc.

For the past 18 months, a quiet phenomenon has been sweeping over the UK VFX industry. Many facilities that are widely recognized and generally considered to be the cream of the crop have made a definitive step in a new direction to incorporate a different application into their pipeline; many in the midst of production. Recognized as the industry standard by a large majority of the North American VFX market, the post-production landscape in the UK is evolving. English facilities are making a big change to their technological infrastructures by expanding their pipelines to facilitate a full featured, multi-threaded, node-based compositing solution from eyeon Software, a Toronto-based company. With many reasons for making the change to a new compositor, one fact remains clear and certain, Soho and the rest of the UK are making the switch to eyeon Fusion®.

Steve Roberts, co-founder and CEO of eyeon Software, started a legacy in the 1980's of creating custom tools to solve some of production's biggest VFX problems. With a rich history in the development of its tools for compositors, Fusion has emerged as a leader in innovation as eyeon celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2008. Hundreds of major facilities in the fields of feature film, game cinematics and broadcast television around the world use Fusion, and Roberts has realized his dream of making the best tool possible available to thousands of artists.

At the top of a long list of Soho studios that have converted their compositing suites to Fusion and comprised of several former Soho powerhouses, such as Clear, Blue and the VTR Group, Prime Focus London has made its pipeline Fusion-centric. Prime Focus London is the Soho division of the much larger Prime Focus World Group, consisting of additional divisions in India, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Fusion has given Prime Focus London a very solid advantage, contributing to their latest work on Tales Of The Riverbank, Agent Crush, and BBC Rugby. Streamlining their compositing globally, Prime Focus recently purchased an unprecedented 1000 full licenses of Fusion in efforts to achieve higher levels of visual effects and finishing.

"Fusion is the only tool for us! Its robust toolset allows us to complete any job in whatever way our artists prefer to work. 64-bit and resolution independence is a Godsend," compliments Theodor Groeneboom, Head of Fusion at Prime Focus London.

Derek Moore
Prime Focus London
Derek Moore, Creative Director, adds, "Fusion has revolutionized the way we tackle many visual effects. The way it handles 3D space, its great particle engine, and the super fast rotoscoping and keying tools allow us to take a lot of pressure off the 3D departments. This allows our artists to concentrate on what they do best and specialize in a much more effective way, be that in CGI or Fusion."