Motivation

Maybe let's start with some background story like how did I find my topic.

During our 3rd semester we had a videoproject in which I did all effects shots. I used a software called "Digital Fusion", which was just fun to work with. The reason is simple. It's node-based. In contrast to other video effects software like After Effects, Fusion didn't use a simple layer-principle for composition. Usually you have one layer with an image or an video and you add filters, which are applied and in worst case like in photoshop even merged, so you can't change them later on. In Fusion, you got your nodes, with special functions and filters, you add them to a workspace and connect them to a large graph, which represents the actions you want to ppply on this video.

As I said this way of creating an environment, where I set up my composition completely without harmfull graphic manipulation to my images/video impressed me. Since then I hate Photoshop for not having this kind of workflow, although it has some aspects. Even worse with Gimp, it's just not the same.

So my friend David got me the idea, hey why not write your Bachelor thesis about it. I loved it. This was 2 years ago. In January I approached my Professor and he was keen on the idea as well. We sat together and made a plan, to make this idea a proper thesis and an interesting project. About this I will talk in an nother post.