Product Animation in Vizcom — From Render to Dynamic Presentation

Design dynamic product animations in Vizcom and transform static renders into cinematic stories for your portfolio. In this course, you will learn an end‑to‑end workflow that combines industrial design, AI‑assisted sketching, CMF exploration, and video editing to present your concepts with professional quality.

You will start by defining a clear visual direction through a high‑impact mood board, learning how to curate images, materials, colors, and lighting references to guide your design language. Then you will sketch a gaming controller from scratch, using Viscom’s Live Render feature to iterate faster, refine ergonomics, and see real‑time AI product visualization while you draw.

Once the form is defined, you will explore CMF (color, material, and finish) using tools such as Extract Material, Modify, and CMF Variate to recreate aluminum, rubber, plastic, and lighting effects inspired by premium industrial design. You will generate multiple CMF variants targeted to different users and select a flagship version for animation.

Next, you will prepare all the key frames needed for motion design. You will create product renders in different views and compositions, work with portrait and landscape layouts, and plan a storytelling‑driven storyboard for three animations: a CMF‑focused product piece, a more conceptual sequence, and a usage scene inside a domestic space.

You will then dive into Vizcom's Animate tool to connect key frames and generate smooth transitions, rotations, close‑ups, and hovering movements. You will learn how to refine AI‑generated motion, correct glitches, and extract still frames at high resolution for your portfolio, understanding the limits of current AI animation quality and how to work around them.

To wrap up, you will organize and download all your animations, import them into DaVinci Resolve or the video editor of your choice, and polish the final edit. You will discover three core pillars of a strong product animation: visual rhythm and transitions, audio selection and synchronization, and coherent visual identity. You will learn how to cut to the beat, choose royalty‑free music, and adjust color and pacing so that sound, image, and design tell a unified story.

This course is aimed at industrial designers, product designers, 3D artists, motion designers, and creatives who want to integrate AI tools like Viscom, ChatGPT, Gemini, Runway, or Sora into their design and animation workflow. Basic familiarity with digital drawing, rendering, or Photoshop‑style software is recommended, but you do not need advanced 3D or animation skills to follow the lessons.

By the end, you will have a complete product animation project that goes from sketch and AI render to a finished video, ready to showcase in your portfolio, social media, or client presentations.