All language subtitles for 3D Product Box in Resolve 18 - Advanced Fusion Motion Graphics Tutorial

You've been asking for advanced fusion
tutorials.

Well, it's time to do that.

Here's
what we're going to be making today.

Oh, there it is.

There it is.

So we have this 3D product box kind of
coming in hot here with some graphics.

We got a reflection going on.

This is a pretty cool little thing.

And even if you're not looking to make
something exactly like a product box,

this is going to teach you
a whole bunch of stuff

about fusion
that you might not know. Let's do it.

So here's the node graph
that I have set up for this comp,

and we're going to take this
just one step at a time.

I'll go up here to my media pool, right
click and say

new fusion
composition and we'll call this box to

and I'll double click
on that to open up our blank composition

here in the Fusion
page, reset our workspace.

So we all have the same thing going on.

And we're starting with our
a little media out node.

Let's put a background in.

So just grab a background
and connect it to our media out.

So now we have our background
and our media out.

We have a black background.

Now, to get that 3D box,
we're going to import an FBI.

If you don't know what an FBI is, it's
a 3D mesh that is made from a 3D program.

Here's
a simple box that I made in Blender.

You can make this

with whatever 3D program you're used to,
or if you don't know anything about 3D,

you can download a mesh and everything
in fusion will work the exact same way.

But all we have to have is a mesh

that has a texture applied to it,
and it laid out the way that we want.

If you all want a video
on how I made this box,

I'll post a tutorial on that
and link it in the description.

But the big idea is that you have a mesh
and you have a texture

that is applied to the mesh
in the right way in your 3D app

and you export it as an FBI file.

In Blender,
I can select this mesh, go to file

export MP x,

and just make sure that selected objects
is selected here and I can save that out.

That's all we need to do.

Not in resolve, but back in resolve.

I can shift spacebar
and type f b X, and we're going to want

mesh 3D and I'll add.

And now it'll ask me
for the most like stuff box to.

And now if I select this mesh and hit one
to bring it up in this left viewer,

I can hold down alt and middle button
mouse drag to kind of move around here.

Now, we don't have any texture
or any lighting on this.

I can get a little bit better idea if I go
up here to these kind of few options

and I select lights and now we at least
have kind of a shaded view of this.

So now we have our box,
but we need to put a texture on it.

For that we need to make a material.

I'll hit shift spacebar.

I'm going to add a material called
torrents.

This is just a material that has a lot of
settings we can mess with.

And I hit add

and I connect this torrents to the mesh.

And now if we did this right,
if I change the color of the torrents,

that changes the color of our 3D thing.

Sweet.

Now, this torrents

material has all kinds of inputs
that we can put fancy textures into.

I'm just going to apply a basic texture
here.

I'll go up to the media pool
and I have a PNG here

that is the same PNG that I use to lay out
my textures in Blender.

I'll grab this PNG
and just drag this down as a media in.

And what we're looking for

is the color diffuse material,
which is the yellow input.

I'll grab this connected
to the yellow input and now guess what?

Oh baby, we have our 3D mesh

textured inside a fusion.

What's going
on? So we're doing pretty good.

I'll close the media pool and let's rename
stuff so that we don't get confused.

I'll just select an F2.

We'll call this box texture.

Am I for media in Torrance? Cool.

We'll leave that for Mesh 3D.

Let's call this box mesh.

That'll be X and we can't merge this over
a 2D layer because this is a 3D mesh.

We need to put it into a 3D environment.

Which infusion is called a Merge 3D.

So let's bring that down.

Put this into merge 3D.

Let's take the Merge 3D
and put that into a render a 3D

that will turn our 3D stuff into a 2D
image which is jacked up at the moment,

but we can take this output
and merge it over our background

and now we'll

have our black background
and the image of our 3D mesh over it.

One thing we need to fix immediately
is this We're like inside of the mesh

right now, so we need to add a camera
and move the camera around.

So I'll grab this camera icon here.

Drag this in
and let's just put this into the Merge 3D.

And if I bring my Merge
3D up in my left viewer,

I can select my camera
and move that around.

And now we see, you know,

as we move the camera around on this left
view, we can see the box starting

to make any sense at all
on the right view suite.

From here we can take our FBA box
and we can adjust its transform here

and the inspector
and I can rotate this on the y axis.

And look, we're getting there.

This is, this is a thing.

So let's go ahead and kind of put this
where we want our rotate this like this

and push this box
kind of heavily to the left.

So it's, you know, nicely
framed on this left third of the screen.

From here we can animate this.

So I'll grab this box and let's
have this end up here at like 30 frames.

Our keyframe rotation
and our X translation.

And here at the beginning,
we're going to move this back over.

Let's go ahead and do like 200 and maybe

300. We just want this off screen
a little bit.

So 500.

There we go.

So now it's just off screen
and it will move in like this.

But at the beginning,
let's turn this a little bit.

I'll just tweak that rotation
a little bit.

So now as this comes in, it's turning
and then it stops right there.

Awesome. So let's play this back.

You have that coming in.

Oh, baby, it's looking good.

Now, we don't want this animation
to be too jerky, right?

It just kind of comes in
and stops immediately.

We want it to ease in.

So let's go over to the spine panel,
open that up,

and let's click our offset.

And why rotation.

And click the zoom to fit button.

And now at the very end,

these and keyframes are select
those and F to flatten out those tangents.

And now this will come in
and just nicely pause, you know.

There we go.

All right.

So we have our box built.

And if I select media out and hit two
on the keyboard of this coming in.

But one thing is
this looks kind of cartoony.

The reason for that is
there isn't any lighting on it.

It's just kind of the surfaces of the box
being kind of

tweaked to look like it's 3D.

So let's add some lighting.

First thing I'll do is add
a directional light.

Let's set shift spacebar animal type

T, that'll bring up all the lights
that are available.

And let's get a directional light
like this and I'll add,

and this is going to be our key light.

So I'll hit F2 and type key

and we'll connect this key

light to our Merge 3D,
bringing it into our 3D world.

And since we have merged 3D open
in this first viewer,

we'll see the light show up right here.

I'm moving around in this 3D world
by clicking and dragging

with the middle button.

That's the scroll wheel on my mouse
to kind of pan I can hold down alt

and click and drag
with the middle button to orbit.

I can roll up and down
to move up and down.

I can hold control and scroll
to zoom in and out.

And with a combination
of all of those things,

you can kind of move around in 3D space.

So what we're going to do
is take this key light

and I'm going to bring it
back and up and to the right.

It doesn't actually matter

where this directional light goes,

but just to kind of keep us organized,

I like to put this
where it would be in the real world.

Also going to go up here
to these little buttons here.

This kind of switches out
between rotate and translate,

and I'll take this rotation gizmo

and let's take this green axis

and we'll point the light towards the box
and then down a little bit like that.

Again, this is going to be our key light.

So we're just pointing it
right at the box.

Now, our preview here on the left,
we can see what that light is lighting.

But on the right,
nothing's really happening.

That's because in our Renderer 3D,
we don't have lighting enabled.

So we go over here
and enable lighting and shadows.

And now we have

these kind of shadows
happening here on our box.

So that works.

For now, I'm going to take this key light.

I'll move this up here
and kind of get organized a little bit.

Take this key light
and I control C double click off

of everything and hit control V
This is going to call this key one.

We're going to rename this to Phil.

That's going to be our Phil Light

and I'll take this output
and put it into our Merge 3D as well.

And now this Phil Light.

Let's select that here in the node graph

and here in our Merge 3D,
I'm going to kind of move this around.

So I'm going to

first of all level it a little more

and then
I'm going to move this over to the left

just again so that I have
these kind of split up and I can easily

grab them and move them around
and see which ones point in which way.

And we'll take this and

we're going to kind of point this

on the other side of the box.

Okay.

So we have two lights,
one coming from the upper right,

another one coming from the upper left.

But what happens here
is this flattens this out to the point

where it almost doesn't
look like we have lights again.

So to really see the shape of something
in 3D

or in lighting in general,
you have to have some contrast here.

So this key light
is going to be our brightest light,

but the Phil light is going to be
maybe like half.

And I think I actually switch these.

This is really easy to do, to switch
which one is which.

That's okay. So this key light

apparently is on the left
and the Phil light is on the right.

So we're just going to rename this.
This will be called Phil Light,

a city called Key Light.

And the key light
will be at full intensity

and the Phil light will be about half.

So now we have that difference between

this front face of the box and the side.

And as this box animates,

that lighting is going to change,

which makes it look 3D.

Yeah, let's go.

So that's a pretty good start.

We're also going to want a kicker.

So that's a light

that shines from the very back
like from behind what we're shooting.

So let's just make a new light shift.

Spacebar again, directional light,

and we'll add this to our Merge 3D.

This one is going to be our kicker

and this kicker is going to go behind

our box and probably up a little bit,

just like we

were really placing a light behind it.

But again, it doesn't really matter
for directional lights where they go.

This is more of an organizational thing.

So let's turn on our rotation gizmo here.

I'll turn this all the way around
and I'll tilt it down a little bit.

And depending on which way we shoot
this light, it'll make a difference.

Or it won't.

So what I'm really trying to do
is kind of highlight this edge.

So right there

we can see this little edge
kind of lighting up a little more

when we have this light on or off.

So here's no kicker
and here it is with it.

So it just adds a little bit of edge there

and that's going to be a little bit
more pronounced later.

Let's turn this intensity
up to like three maybe.

There we go.

So now we're kind of getting a little bit
of glint off that little edge.

Maybe we want to add another kicker
grab this and hit

control,
see double click off and hit Control V,

attach that to the merge 3D

and this kicker will do the same thing.

We'll kind of rotate this

to where we can get
a little bit more glint off the top here.

That's what this other kicker is doing.

Giving just a little more glint

might not even need
this other kicker. Now,

but we'll keep it on for now.

The lighting thing is really you kind of
have to just play around with it

because it's hard to get it right
the first time.

You really have to mess with stuff.

So let's call this kicker to you, okay?

I'm going to select

all of these lights, move
this up and hit spacebar and type you.

And for Underlay, that's
going to add a little background here.

Now click off of it and then hold down alt
and select this underlay.

And that will select only the underlay
and not the nodes that it's surrounding.

And I'll have to
and we'll call this lights

and we'll make this apricot
nice and bright like the lights, right?

So now we have kind of a little group
here.

Let's start
spreading things out a little more.

Here's our camera

and we're
starting to build out our node graph.

So now we have like
a lot of the basic stuff going on here.

Now it's time to get it
a little bit more fancy because let's say

we want this
to look like it's on a reflective floor.

There isn't really a way to do this
with real reflections inside of fusion

to get those real kind
of Ray traced reflections,

you need to actually use a 3D app,
but we can fake it in a really cool way.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're basically going to take this box,
we're going to duplicate it and flip it

and put it under itself
so that we're really looking at

two boxes stacked on top of one another.

And where they meet in the middle
will sort of look like a floor.

So let's shift spacebar and we'll type in

EXIF and that'll
bring up anything called Transform.

And what we want is transform 3D.

What this note does is

it takes things and transforms them
in 3D space, amazingly.

Right?

So I'll take this mesh
and pipe that into our Transform 3D.

And now essentially what I'm going to have
is a duplicate of this mesh

that I can move around
kind of independently.

So I want to take the output of this
and put that into the Merge 3D as well.

And nothing's happened yet.

But if I take this and I move this around,

we'll see that we now have two boxes.

So what we're going to do

is take just our scale

here.

I'll unlock X-Y-Z and we're going to scale
this on Y to negative one.

And when I hit that, guess what happens?

Boom.

It makes a flipped copy of this

3D mesh right under our other mesh.

And what's really cool is that
because we have all of our animation

on this box, it's taking that animation
and it's applying a flip to it.

And so it actually moves
along with the box automatically.

And we already have a pretty good looking
effect here, so that works pretty well.

And if we like that strong reflection
like that, we could probably just leave it

like that.

But we're going to do some more fancy
things.

What we want to do on
this reflection is blur it

a little bit and we also want to kind of
feed it out at the bottom.

For any of you who remember
back in the day, back in 2007,

our buddy Andrew Cramer

did a tutorial about making 3D Reflections
and After Effects,

and it used basically the same process
that I'm going to use here.

So this is a really smart way
to make kind of fake reflections

that we're kind of adapting for fusion
all these years later.

And basically the idea is that we take
this flipped 3D object,

we put it on its own 2D layer, and
then we can mask it and blur it by itself.

To do that in fusion,
we need to do a little bit of fanciness.

First of all, all of this,
all of the 3D stuff is coming in through

this render a 3D, which is basically
making its own 2D layer.

What we really need
is this transform 3D, this duplicate

of our box to be on its own 2D layer
so that we can do stuff to it.

So what we're going to do
is duplicate this, merge

3D and connect it
and kind of make the same 3D environment.

But we're going to split these two boxes
into two different layers.

How do we do that, you may ask?

Well, I'm going to take this transform
3D down here and let's select

this Merge 3D and I control C double
click off of it and I'll control shift V.

What that will do
is make something called an instance.

An instance
is like a linked copy of a note.

And so any settings that I mess with
or anything for this

merge 3D is also going to happen here
in this Merge 3D.

So if we want to tweak something later,
we can we might not need to do an instance

for this exact situation.

But this is a great thing
to get in the habit of.

If you want to make two nodes
that kind of share

the same settings again, that's select
the node you want control

C double click off and control shift V
and that'll make an instance.

So we will need to connect our lights.

So I'll just take each of these lights
and drag it onto our Merge 3D

like this and also our camera.

And now we have pretty
much the same 3D environment,

but we're going to take this transform 3D

out of this
first one and put it in the second one.

I'll also take this render a 3D,
which I think

will just instance that to control shift V

take the output of our merge
3D into this render 3D

and we'll take the render a 3D here
and put it over our background

and now our media out
should look exactly how it did.

Looks pretty much the same.

The only difference is that this box

and the lower box
are in two different 2D layers.

So I could turn off one layer
by turning off the merge.

So that's on one layer
and this top one is on

one layer.

Let's take a second and get organized.

First thing I'm going to do is go to this
merge 3D and this like spaghetti here.

If you select any node
and then you go over to settings here

and the inspector,
you can select hide incoming connections.

And what that will do is
when you're not selecting a node,

it will hide all of the connections
just so it doesn't look so overwhelming.

So that's pretty cool.

And again, because these

merge threads are instanced, that happens
on both of those at the same time.

So now that cleans things up a little bit,
makes it a little less horrible.

We'll line the stuff up a little bit

and let's name these merges F2

and we'll call this reflection merge.

This is going to be called box merge.

And now anything that we put in between
this render 3D

and this reflection merge will affect
only the reflected image.

So if we were to do something like add
a blur, grab this blur here, drag it in

between, render a 3D and reflection
merge and I push up the blur size.

We are blurring just the reflection

and I think just a slight
blur would do us good.

So now we have this kind of blurry

reflection here, which looks great,
and we can also mask this.

So that kind of fades out as it goes down.

So an easy way to do
that is just to add a mask to our merge.

So I'll take a rectangle mask and just
connect this here to our merge like this

and we'll zoom out

and I'll make this nice and wide
and we'll just kind of put this down.

So it's almost half way off the screen
and then we'll take our soft edge

and kind of just feather that out
a little bit

just so we're starting to see it fade out.

I think that works well now.

We pretty much have our box in our
animation set up and it looks pretty sick.

A couple of things that I want to do
to just make this a little nicer

is obviously we need to switch out
the art for this box.

The great thing is that

we can use this texture here
that we've kind of set up and done our UV

mapping and blender from,
and we can just kind of replace

whatever's here
with whatever we want to be on the box.

So you can do this in an image
editing program.

You could build it here in fusion
if you wanted to like this.

So I could
do something like take a background

and just merge over my texture.

I could do something like,

you know, if I want to make kind of a pink

or box or something like that,
I can just make a solid pink texture.

And now we have a pink box
and I can just kind of build out

a cup here
that's going to work for my box.

And I can kind of see
it happen in real time

and I can move this back
and forth here on my left

and see it actually
come to life on the right viewer.

And it sounds pretty fancy.

Just whatever I connect to this material
here, that's going to be the texture.

And so what I think I'll do
is grab this image that I made in

a design program

and I'll just kind of disconnect these
right now and reconnect our media in.

And there we have our nice art
kind of switched out, works pretty well.

Let's change our background color.

I'll go down here to our background node,

which is just a black background right
now, but will take this color

and we can do something like this.

Now we have this nice blue background
and pretty much

whatever we want to do to kind of
build this and make it look nice again.

It's kind of the same thing.

I could

merge another background over this

and move this down, turn the blend down

and we'd have sort of a floor

and it's all kind of a trick, right?

It's not really a 3D floor, but it looks
like a floor just to keep us organized.

I can select all of that shift.

Spacebar used for Underlay.

Click off of this alt

click to select just the underlay and F2
and we'll call this BG for background.

We'll set this color as teal for now

because that's sort of our color

all of this can be box art.

Another underlay click off, alt click

F2 box art will make this a nice color
so we can easily see it.

Just make it violet.

Now we have our sections
kind of organized here

so that we can easily get to whatever
we need to later from here.

It's just a matter of
if we want to add some text.

So I'll grab a text.

Plus I could also probably do this
in the edit page if I wanted to,

but this will work fine.

Treat your man because look, it's okay.

This man, he's a handsome.

He's handsome boy. Oh, man.

Just size this up kind of move it over
and we can animate this in, let's say

we'll have this start about frame 22,
right as this is kind of going past it.

And I'll animate right on.

And we'll start with this completely gone

and then over the next 15 frames or so,
we'll have it right on like that.

So now we have our animation coming in.

There it is, baby.

Last little bit that I want to do is
I want a little sparkle in this boy's eye

just because I think it's
just puts the sprinkle on top.

So how do we do something like that?

Well,
you can do this a hundred different ways.

I'll use a shape.

I'm just going to make a little star.

Like a little star ding thing.

I'll hit chef spacebar and type s s.

That'll bring up my shape Star add.

And we also want a shape render.

So S.R. will grab a shape. Render.

And now
let's take this and put it over our box.

And now we have a giant,
obnoxious star over everything.

Great. I'll select our shape Star,

and let's bring the points down to five,

and we'll make this kind of a normal
looking star that looks good.

And just for consistency,
let's do a shape transform.

So I'll type s t r
that'll bring up a shape transform, I add.

And now we can rotate this and size it
and everything.

We could totally do that within the shape
itself.

It's good practice
to have a transform node

that does kind of the animation
and everything just makes things

a little easier later.

So let's adjust the offset
and let's bring the size down.

I'm actually going to link these sizes
together.

I want this to scale together.

So here under y
size, I'll hit equals enter

and that'll bring up
this blank expression.

And I can take this little plus thing
and choose whatever I want to link it to.

So I'll just say exercise.

You can also just type exercise
if you want.

I'll hit enter
and now when I adjust exercise, it's

going to adjust y size as well.

I wish there was a way to just link those
automatically, but whatever here we're

so we'll put this

star like right over as I like this

right where that kind of highlight is
and as I like this being like that,

I'll give us a little more room here

and right
after this sets for a couple of seconds.

Let's start it like frame 50

will make this star
kind of grow and rotate.

So I'll take this forward,
I don't know, like frame 60 or so

and let's keyframe exercise
to be right there,

and then we'll come to the left
a few frames and we'll take exercise

all the way down to now being all right,

and then we'll have it come back
down again here a few frames later.

So now we have this kind of animation
grows

and comes back
and let's have it rotate the whole time.

So we'll start with rotation at zero here.

So we'll hit that keyframe diamond
and then towards

the end we'll have this rotate,
I don't know, 180 degrees maybe.

Let's see how that looks.

Yep, That's going to be just fine.

Being

this is all I actually want to make

in life as this kind of thing.

So I'll uncheck my text
and just have my s transform

selected in our spline
panel Hit Zoom to Fit.

Let's take all of these key
frames for our size

and hit F on the keyboard
to flatten everything out.

It flattened out the rotation as well,
but it's not that big a deal.

See how this looks being?

Yep, it's wonderful. That's what we need.

All right, so there's our handsome man

just looking all handsome.

See how this looks?

This comes in

trait, your main being.

This is all that is needed there.

We have our finished graphics.

We can throw this into the edit page.

Just grab this box to throw it over there.

I'll let this cache for a second
and we'll play this back.

See how she looks. Yep.

Being so good.

Are so I hope that's helpful
for any of you advanced fusion people.

If you have any questions,
put them in the comments

below
and I will double view them and we'll see.

Maybe we'll maybe we'll address things
in a future video.

If you want more advanced fusion videos,
please let me know.

I'm kind of you know,
there's a mixed audience here.

Some people want the noob stuff.

Some people want the advanced stuff.

So let me know what you think.

I'm on a different shirt.

Suddenly.