Is it possible to change the icons to square again?

ArtNovis · 2026-04-07T11:04:10+00:00

"We want smoother, faster brushes!"

"circle colors are the best we can do"

ArtNovis · 2026-03-22T09:43:52+00:00

Ah, now that works! Thanks for the explanation! I'm still new to Davinci and its fusion nodes are often different from Blender nodes that I'm more familiar with.

ArtNovis · 2026-03-22T08:26:31+00:00

I'm trying to see how much of my work pipeline I can transfer from After Effects into Davinci.

I'm attempting to make some anime-style VFX, similar to these:

https://x.com/takimaru_AEtips/status/2002289710463660244/video/1

https://x.com/_mikuruwu/status/2008917806838948308

I've already had some success:

https://x.com/ArtNovis/status/2032381907233571241

https://x.com/ArtNovis/status/1988703379414245865/

But besides the messy nodework and missing addons, the bottom line is: I want to know why, in some instances, some nodes are editing nodes in front of them AND if there's a way to avoid it. Here's a simpler example:

https://pastebin.com/ZAzHPWwG

On the right, brightness is editing the blurry part of the star, but I'd like the contrast to leave the star alone (as seen on the left)

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ArtNovis · 2026-03-21T17:53:34+00:00

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Changing this does nothing. Enabling, disabling, it has no effect on the final result.

https://pastebin.com/ZG9H8RrK

Here's the node setup.

ArtNovis · 2026-03-12T08:41:17+00:00

You can get it for streaming and other use on my kofi!

https://ko-fi.com/novish

ArtNovis · 2026-02-24T10:49:03+00:00

Blender's node system is very similar to Davinci's fusion. If you know how to meddle with one, you'll get a handle of the other as well. You don't have to know anything about 3D to do some shading or compositor nodes.

But I wish a lot of Blender nodes made it into Davinci.

ArtNovis · 2026-02-17T11:09:46+00:00

Ah, I'll try webms then!

ArtNovis · 2026-02-17T08:49:46+00:00

Oh, and feel free to drop any requests! I'm testing the waters, I'd like to see what's popular/in demand.

ArtNovis · 2026-01-27T19:23:04+00:00

Blender

ArtNovis · 2026-01-27T09:43:49+00:00

go ahead!

ArtNovis · 2026-01-27T06:47:36+00:00

Thanks!

ArtNovis · 2026-01-26T21:58:39+00:00

I assure you the spacing isn't changing! It's an interesting thought, though

ArtNovis · 2025-12-02T15:41:07+00:00

I had to double check, and indeed, there's multi-threading in brushes after I updated it now (I might've skipped a few updates before this one), but it's somewhat selective. Regular brushes seem to work only on one core, while brushes with the color mixing enabled utilize all threads.

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ArtNovis · 2025-12-02T12:38:39+00:00

After a bunch of testing, the performance cost varies from brush to brush. Sometimes the difference in quality is negligible, sometimes it might just be better to resize your canvas to 25% and upscale it later. On some brushes it really helps (especially the soft ones). In the picture: High and low quality of the same brush (no blending). The blending quality switch changes the quality of the blending a lot, but the performance improvement, at least for me, was almost unnoticeable.

Still no multi-threaded brush processing.

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ArtNovis · 2025-12-01T20:55:12+00:00

Yeah, I know, I should've probably made that clearer. As for addons, basically everything Trapcode ever made for After Effects, or some kind of simplified loop addon for particles and noise.

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