How to create "The Ninth Gate" titles with DaVinci Resolve Fusion: A step-by-step guide

In Part 1 of this beginner/intermediate tutorial in DaVinci Resolve Fusion, we will look at one approach to making titles similar to the movie "The Ninth Gate". The opening title sequence has a camera moving through a landscape and passing through doorways. We will use 2 still images, one for the ground and one for the building and doors. We will then use these to texture 3d cards/planes in DaVinci Fusion. Setting up a 3d scene in Fusion we will use the cards/planes to replicate the space for the camera move. After setting up the animation for the camera, we will add the titles and animate them to fly by the camera as the camera dollies towards the door. We will animate one text first then copy and paste the same settings to get a uniform move. Next we will go into the keyframe editor in Fusion to offset the animations of the text. Once we are happy with our animations we will add in lights to give the scene a creepier feel. Through out the tutorial we will run into issues and work out different solutions to fix the problems as we go. By the end we will have a decent setup for part 2, where we will get into animating the doors opening as the camera approaches at the end. We will also add some light rays(god rays) to the opening door for a more cinematic look.
I took a different approach to this tutorial and decided to do it a little less refined so that people might understand some of the issues and solutions you may run into when doing your own projects. This means it's not already planned out so expect a little bit of jumping around in the composition. 😀

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https://www.textures.com/search?q=TexturesCom_BuildingsNeoclassical0271_7_M

https://www.textures.com/search?q=TexturesCom_FloorStreets0083_5_M

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00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Add Fusion comp
00:38 - Add media and setup
01:23 - Set up the ground and building
04:15 - Animate the camera
05:27 - Adding the text
09:36 - Adding in lights
10:06 - Add material for ground light
11:43 - Adjust the text
12:42 - Add rest of lights
13:42 - Offset the text animation
15:03 - Animate the building on and off
15:35 - Continuing the text offset
16:39 - Add light for door
18:30 - Fix the lights and the floor