Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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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
