Intro To Combustion For The After Effects User – AE Basix
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Intro To Combustion For The After Effects User – AE Basix

on Aug 5th 2010 with 19 comments
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This tutorial is basically for those who love After Effects and want to learn a different compositing software. Well rounded people are in demand nowadays who can handle more than one kind of software. We will be going over the most basic workflow of Autodesk Combustion. This tutorial is made specifically aimed toward those who are comfortable with AE so we’ll go back and forth between the two.

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Chandan Kumar is a VFX artist from India with having more than 6 years of experience in both production and education. He runs his own website www.vfxrider.com where he produces video tutorials on After Effects.  

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  • Billy

    I love the Indian accent. Just so cool. I know absolutely nothing about Combustion so I will enjoy watching this tutorial.

  • jink

    cool, this should be a series, where you could do nuke as well, or make a basix one on autodesk flame, then we can buy one for $250,000 and get cracking

  • Boxie

    Great one! I never tried combustion yet but have heard about its particle system a lot. will try soon.

  • Billy

    I just watched the tutorial. Good introduction to Combustion. It got me thinking about what Combustion could do that AE cannot….and in doing some research I have found that Combustion really doesn’t do anything that AE cannot. Seems that the two programs do pretty much the same thing with Combustion doing several things much more clumsily. I did find several message boards where graphic designers seemed to prefer certain elements of Combustion’s workflow over AE, but they seemed to be in the minority. As one person pointed out….you will never get a job in the motion graphics industry if you don’t know After Effects….but not knowing Combustion will hardly ever shut a door to a job.

    As I said, I know nothing about Combustion. However, since I do know After Effects if I wanted to spend time learning a new application I would certainly look to learn something that ADDS to what I can do rather than just teaches me how to do the same thing a different way.

    • Don Plachno

      I agree. I have never been in a situation where I didn’t get a job for not knowing combustion, nuke and the like, but I have got several jobs because because I know after effects. I would rather waste my time learning more about the program that gets me the most work (and money) than learning some clone program to pad my resume that will not get me as much work. Besides, in most cases when the client sees what you can do they couldn’t care less if what it was done with, just the end result.

  • Rehan_Aryan

    To those who try to find totally different things in other compositing softwares:—-

    Every compositing software whether it is Nuke, Fusion, AE, Shake, Toxik or whatever does the same things, more or less. Combustion falls in the same area. And learning other applications is always good and adds on something new in your resume and opens the door for more and more job places. So telling that “if I wanted to spend time learning a new application I would certainly look to learn something that ADDS to what I can do rather than just teaches me how to do the same thing a different way” prevents your way,dear.

    Personally I never work on Combustion but AE. But I know that I can work on Combustion as well because the compositing is same thing everywhere. I work on Fusion, I never tried Nuke, but I know that I can work on Nuke also because the things are same in every node based compositing software.

    The present tutorial is just the basic introduction of Comustion in Imporing footage, transform,animation,effects and rendering. The author has cleverly shown these things in combustion while showing the comparison with AE, I appreciate. Well begun is half done! i look forward to it.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFFhs8bfZA John

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFFhs8bfZA
    great video, can somebody do this tut.?:)

  • http://methodd.com Evangelos Moly

    Why do this when Autodesk have canceled Combustion is a mystery to me…

    • Mr. Obvious

      As a professional Combustion user, let me point out 3 things:

      1) Combustion is DYING, but not dead. Not yet, at least. They will not be updating it anytime soon (I talked to the autodesk guys doing our flame upgrades, and they confirm it). However it is still in use around LA. We’ve used it on features like Wolverine and The Spirit to support our Flames, and although it does great roto/compositing, it is quite horrific when it comes to motion graphics. If you want a job compositing, you could do worse than it. When it comes to broadcast motion graphics, it’s a dead horse.

      2) Combustion has the best desktop paint I’ve ever used, IMO. I’ve used Nuke, AE, and Shake, and Combustion’s paint is faaaaaantastic. It’s a super painter. That should be the focus of any combustion tuts, if any more are being made.

      3) It plays nicely with 3Ds Max, so if that’s your thing, it’s a good/cheap alternative to AE or Nuke.

      Aside from that, it was a nice 9 year run, but Combustion’s time is running out and if you use it be prepared to learn something else soon…

  • Boman

    Oh Tnanks a lot! I was thinking to start working in combustion and this tut saved my time.

  • Raman

    Nice Tut!

  • Ramzes

    There is so many softwares,and our live is not enough to learn them all!For me After Efters is number 1 software and I know that AE is the most used software in Motion design area even in Movie industry,so it is better to learn one software and become master in this field, then run for 100 rabbits and don’t catch even one.

  • john

    Hi, thanks for the peak into another piece of software! You’re right, it can’t hurt to learn at least a little bit about other pieces of software. The more skills you have, the more hireable you are…. Is hireable a word?

  • Stefan Frank

    Nice tutorial! But i thought Combustion is very like Composite2011 from Autodesk but the structure seems a bit different. Its a pity because it was shipped with my 3dsmax2011 and i want to use the software that comes free with it :)
    I already have AE but i`ve seen some motiontracking tests that were absolutley awesome in Composite2011.

    But thanks again – i can use some bits of this to improve!

    • Mr. Obvious

      Actually, Composite2011 is a re-worked version of Toxik, which is another abandoned autodesk composite package. It’s node based, like shake or Nuke. And yup, the tracker included in it is the finest on a desktop, that I’ve seen…

  • trytrr

    isn’t combustion pretty much dead in the water now?

    • Gaandu

      No,It is in the market and exists in many studios and production houses. If the new version has not come ,doesn’t mean its dead.

  • Jaishree Borah

    Sir, nice tutorial indeed. I want to learn Combustion more professionally, although it has been 3 years now that m using AE. Can you please mail me some tutorial websites/books from where i can learn the very basic to advance compositing in Combustion. Sir, if you know any site from where i can download/buy training cds/dvds for learning combustion. Kindly help! Thank a lot. Do upload more learning videos, sir.