This is the only video (of the few I could find on this specific effect and editing software) that I really found was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you :]
Thank you. This was VERY helpful. I used to do this using Lightwave and/or erasing a portion of teh text and saving out 60+ individual frames and then bringing it back into a video file 🙂
Hey, thanks for this tutorial. I find it really useful! One personal opinion note - maybe think about cranking up your light setup? It's really nice, but the exposure is quite sleepy.
Hey there! You’re not wrong 😂 I thought that myself upon upload. I wish I cranked the exposure a bit in post. There’s always next time. Appreciate the feedback friend!
Thank you very much for this. What's would also be interesting to see is everything related to shape layers or how to recreate common effects (at least for me) like glow, turbulent displace, or fractal noise. Then of course basic expressions like wiggle, posterise time and parenting.
Great tutorial! Thank you. Really dig your lighting setup! Would it be crazy to ask you which light you used for your blue background? All the best mate! Thanks again for the tutorial!
Hey Matthias 👋 thank you kindly mate! The blue comes from two little Ulanzi VL49 lights. Cheap little boys but they hold a charge well and they’re small so, really easy to place! Hope that’s helps 🙂
Its so thick... so thick, I can't even... I mean your dialect, of course! Thank Google for automatic subtitles xD But great tutorial! Another feature that I wouldn't ever found myself.
Hi Ryan, this is the second tutorial I've found of yours and love the way you present and explain them. Thanks. Can you help me with the polyline? I am trying to make the line fade out just at the end of the line. I can make the whole line fade out at the same time but I want a solid line that fades out at the end. Any ideas?
Hey Ryan great tutorial bro! Have you ever thought on opening a master class for fusion... I'd really love for you to be my teacher on it while I better my Skills
Thank you for the video. I like your accent (where is it from?). Is it possible to write (for example on a graphic tablet) and just record you? I did it with solid color but then each strokes start at the same time and in the key frame I have to move them. Quite funny but I wonder how to make it more effective if I have a lot to do. The sound! Should I just record a pencil sound or is there a better way? Last question, if I want to simulate typewriter with the sound, is there a plugin? Sorry for many questions :)))
I’m from Scotland 🏴 🙂 no worries. Thank you for commenting, I’m glad you have questions! Yes. I’ve seen some people record their handwriting animation on tablets and use this as a quick animation. I think something like Procreate should work for this! If you have a lot to do. It’s a bit harder. Do you have a full sentence? What are you working in? RU-vid is awesome for sound effects, just search for them and use y2meta to download them 🙂
Damn, that's much work for such a little animation. Is there a way to combinie all the strokes, so you have one "Write On" keyframe for everything? I understand that it will look like a single text node, but for quick animations this would be more useful for me.
Yes, it’s not necessary at all to have each letter as it’s own node. You can run a single mask paint node into a single text node to get the same effect. You can even do multiple strokes within a single mask paint node, exactly like you’re suggesting. My personal preference is to break the letters up though and give them their own mask paint node each. Because it means that each letters mask is separated from each other and won’t affect the letters you don’t want them to throughout the animation. I.e. the stroke for the “H” isn’t going to affect the “e” if it happens to be too close to it. Whereas if you use a single mask paint node, you have to worry about overlaps. It’s more of a nit-picky, perfectionist thing on my part but I think this makes for a more natural/realistic look because its the way a pen would actually write. If I just needed something quick, I’d probably use the way you’re suggesting. Thanks for watching and I hope that helps 🙂👍
@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks for your long reply! I really appreciate it. Do you know if it's possible to control all of the strokes within a node with just one slider? So having just two keyframes for writing the whole text? Right now I have to animate each stroke seperately. 🤕
Pretty cool thanks! Would love some additional details as to how to import affinity files into fusion. Are you exporting as PSD then importing that (fusion>import PSD)? For whatever reason this doesn't seem to work for me. I get the node tree with what should be a node for each layer, but rather than showing different letters all show the same letter. If I select one of the layers nodes, I can see a "layer" dropdown in the inspector, but I just get a list of the same letter again. Is there some additional step that needs to be done after converting the text to curves and ungrouping them? I was able to follow up to there.
Hey 👋 yes you can import as a PSD. I actually made a whole video on exporting from affinity into fusion. I’ll leave it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aoJQsdgN_iw.html Sounds to me like you’ve either not rasterised or named each of your layers perhaps 🤔 Hope this helps!
@@RyanOsborneUK exactly what I needed thanks! Got it working. Surprised you didn’t link/refer to this tutorial in this video somewhere; it’s crazy useful.
Not copy and paste but it is possible to import them. Export from your vector program as an SVG and then go to Fusion -> Import -> SVG. This will import the shape. I cover it in the "Method 2" part of this video here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aoJQsdgN_iw.html& Hope it helps. :)
@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks for the prompt response! I'm interested in animating a line drawing - with fusion automatically animating each path in sequence, not having to manually set start and end key-frames ofr each stroke as they are hundreds.... something like this using stroke or 3d stroke in AE but without the unmasking effect visible: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GXpDpB6hCl8.html is this possible in Davinci? Ideally I'm looking for a better version of vector paint equivalent that was deprecated back in CS4... Thanks in advance
I'm looking to transfer a lot of my tasks from After Effects to Fusion, but inefficiencies like this makes it less appealing. After Effects can do something like this with no complications or work arounds. I'm thinking I'll just have to round trip with Ae for certain tasks.
@@RyanOsborneUK It’s keyframing a trim paths control that’s built into any shape layer. So you just convert your text layer into a shape layer. There’s no masking involved. It draws a clean stroke across your path. You can also offset the animation so that it draws on and off at the same rate.
@@newmantopia Do you have a tutorial you could link to here? I'm possibly missing something but I don't think this would produce the same effect. If you're using a trim path on a shape, then this would animate through the outlined shape of each letter but that's not what we're going for. We're trying to make this look like it's been handwritten.
you don't explain much...unless you're an expert in Fusion, what you're telling us to do is meaningless. You say separate the layers but you don't tell us how. OR YOU SHOULD label your video for experts only.
