Fusion: Creating Motion Graphics
Overview
Learn how to create powerful motion graphics, including animated logos and identity bumpers, with Blackmagic Design Fusion, the free and full-featured VFX and animation software.
Producing great motion graphics requires a great toolset. Blackmagic Design Fusion provides a rich, full-featured compositing environment to bring together video footage, 3D animation, and graphics, text, and photos in a fully three-dimensional space. And best of all, the non-Studio version is completely free. In this course, Adam Crespi shows how to create an identity bumper in Studio 8 by compositing and animating a variety of assets. Starting with the raw elements, he assembles a composition and animates a camera in the scene. From there, he adds lights, particles, a painted logo, and post effects, and then renders the final bumper. Each step of the process is rich with object lessons that are applicable to the variations that a compositor will face in the real world.
Producing great motion graphics requires a great toolset. Blackmagic Design Fusion provides a rich, full-featured compositing environment to bring together video footage, 3D animation, and graphics, text, and photos in a fully three-dimensional space. And best of all, the non-Studio version is completely free. In this course, Adam Crespi shows how to create an identity bumper in Studio 8 by compositing and animating a variety of assets. Starting with the raw elements, he assembles a composition and animates a camera in the scene. From there, he adds lights, particles, a painted logo, and post effects, and then renders the final bumper. Each step of the process is rich with object lessons that are applicable to the variations that a compositor will face in the real world.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What you should know
- Nodes vs. layers
- Importing project footage
- Evaluating footage and setting the color space
- Layering footage using Merge nodes
- Creating an initial camera
- Adjusting an animation in Fusion
- Creating and adjusting spotlights to showcase elements
- Sequencing clips on the timeline
- Adjusting footage on the timeline
- Adding an underlay to organize the flow
- Creating an emitter and shaping the particles
- Adjusting particle properties
- Adjusting the particle system and adding forces
- Creating a particle renderer
- Animating a camera
- Color Correction
- Adding glow
- Creating custom transitions
- Loading and merging EXR footage
- Adding depth of field
- Implementing motion blur
- Creating a custom transition
- Painting a logo
- Merging painted logo into the comp
- Animating paint elements
- Adding glow and post effects
- Creating text
- Setting the text color and style
- Animating the text
- Rendering the final composite
- Next steps
Taught by
Adam Crespi
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