How to Make Animated Text in Fusion - Follower Modifier in Fusion for Beginners!

in this video we'll learn an easy way to make some custom animated text using the fusion page of resolve here's what we'll be making oh look at that oh fancy boy look at that fancy boy just being fancy my name's Casey I teach content creators how to make amazing things in the fusion page of resolve if you're wanting to learn how Fusion works we have an amazing course there's a link down in the description I even have a free Survival Guide which is like a little sample video course that uh that has some really good stuff too so check those out but let's get down to animating some fancy text so I have a basic comp here in fusion and nothing's going on it's just some text sitting there on the background being all lazy doing nothing and there are a bunch of different ways you can animate text you could certainly just add like a transform node under your text like this and you can animate the size and the angle and all that stuff right and so if we wanted this to just kind of you know whoosh in here or something we could go to frame 24 let's say and keyframe are Center and then we could go to frame 0 and then push this off screen like that and then that would fly in there like this and if we wanted to ease that keyframe and make it so this kind of slows down before it stops and it doesn't just stop all of a sudden like that we could go into the spline panel in the upper right click this button so we open up the spline panel and then here under displacement we'll check that that'll give us a little graph of the keyframes and if we select this last keyframe and hit F on the keyboard that's going to flatten out that tangent and now this text will fly in and it will slow down before it stops which is very nice okay so you can animate just about anything in Fusion using that basic kind of concept going to a certain frame and then telling any property where to be on that frame and clicking this little keyframe diamond and then going to a different frame and setting another keyframe and that's how pretty much most things are animated but if we wanted to do something a little fancier and have all of these characters in our text animate separately we can use something called a follower so if we go into our text node click on this and then go over here to where we actually type in our text in the inspector we right click anywhere we can go down to follower and if we click on follower it seems like nothing happens well that's just great but actually we have a keyframe now and up here at the top of this panel this modifiers button isn't grayed out anymore so if we click that we have a modifier attached which is kind of like a fancy filter thing for a property infusion and this modifier is called follower and what it does is it distributes animation across the word in various ways so how does it work well if we go into something like transform let's say and we go down to size we can push up the size on Y and nothing happens that's very frustrating but actually to see anything happening we need to add keyframes here let's just move to frame I don't know 20 or so and we'll make a keyframe here on Y and we'll push it up and here we have these kind of growing up a little bit so let's do like 1.3 something and then at the beginning let's have this at zero so now this kind of grows like this and then let's actually have this settle down by frame 30. let's just make this like one yeah so now this kind of grows and then back now just like anything that we animate in Fusion we could go to the spline panel here select all of these and then hit F on the keyboard to flatten out these tangents and we'll have things kind of slowing down and kind of stretching in a nice pleasing way but we could certainly do this with something like a scale on a transform so why are we dealing with the follower stuff what's that about well a follower will take these keyframes and it will delay this animation in between the letters of our text all we have to do is go over to timing right here and here where we have delay let's just push this delay up a little bit and look what happens we instantly get some stuff going on so now whoosh oh look at that it's like a wave oh man that's cool look at that that's a fancy boy and there are a lot of different options here for changing sort of how this works so right now the delay type is between each character but we could have this between first and last character so we can kind of decide how long this word takes to animate whoa there we go and so let's just switch to between each character and take this down a lot so now we have this coming in like this and by default it's kind of just going from left to right but we can switch this order from automatic to something like inside out and look what happens here it starts in the middle and kind of floofs out which is a scientific term it floofs out and so there are a lot of possibilities with this follower modifier where you can really get some cool stuff happening with your text so instead of inside out let's just say um random but one by one and now we get sort of what we had in our example things just kind of growing out of nothing so this is perfect if you want something that's a little bit more wacky you know a little cartoony you know you probably don't want this on you know a PSA for some disease or something but you know something like it's Monday that would work fine and yeah there's a lot of really cool tools here and all we did was just animate this uh y growing but you can do any of this stuff you can mix and match things so let's say you know Z will have it zero but we can have each of these sort of rotate like this and now kind of as they kind of grow in they click into place there's all kinds of cool stuff you can do we'll just sweep this back this way so now these kind of do some wackiness again we'll grab all of these keyframes and flatten them out look at that all kinds of cool stuff you can do and so you can get really really creative with how your different letters animate and make some cool stuff so that's basically how you would animate text in in all kinds of different ways inside of fusion and of course you can do this and make your own titles you can just save this composition and drag it into your timeline whatever you want to do but yeah if you know a little bit of fusion you're not too afraid to jump in you can make some fancy stuff completely custom so that's how we animate text in Fusion again if you want to learn more about Fusion check out my Fusion Survival Guide which is a free video course and we also have the big boy Fusion Zero to Hero which is designed to help you thoroughly understand how Fusion works so you can make your own custom graphics and visual effects thanks for animating text with me you sweet friend appreciate you now go make something wiggly wiggly wiggly

Channel: Casey Faris

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Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 22 2023