Monster and Saphire plug impressions

[buttachunk]

Has anyone had any experience with these plugins for fusion? Are they worth the purchase for production work?

YES.

I believe Sapphire is essential. Very fast glows, blurs, and other effects. VERY fast previews and renders.

I used monsters in 5dCyborg, and found them to be quite useful. Excellent 3d particle system which is quite fast. Includes a warper I haven't used yet. Worth the price for serious compositing.

[buttachunk]

double post :eek:

[ajsfuxor]

What about Monster? Anyone had any experience? More essential than Saphire?

Thanks

[MarkH]

The Monster plugins are very cool. There will be some overlap between Monsters and Sapphire, but I think Monsters are more inegrated with Fusion and have more options. You can see a tutorial by Chris Maynard (http://www.cmivfx.com/) using the Monster's Rain plugin and making the rain bounce off a logo.

Enjoy!

http://www.cmivfx.com/m/fusionrain.jpg (http://www.cmivfx.com/m/fusionrain.mov)

[SalaTar]

You dont even need the above plugs to do that tut.
Sapphire is a AE crossbreed
Monsters has its issues

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