What is the ACES workflow? ACES. It’s a simple term, with plenty of difficult-to-grasp concepts behind it. Nevertheless, let’s take a step forward with an entry-level explanation of what ACES is: ACES, or Academy Color Encoding System is considered to be the ‘industry standard’ for colour. Think of standardised traffic laws but for colours instead! ACES […]
Download a free JPG exporter script for After Effects. ProductionCrate has released a free JPG exporter for Adobe After Effects, so now it only takes a single click to save and share your art. This script is easy to set up and enhances your ability to work in After Effects. From mockups to pre-visualizations of […]
Download a free Light Wrap plugin for Adobe After Effects here ProductionCrate has released a free light wrap plugin for Adobe After Effects! It is available to download now. Crate’s Light Wrap fixes one of the biggest obstacles any VFX artist faces, how to cleanly and easily composite in After Effects. We made it specifically […]
Log in to your Sample or Pro ProductionCrate account then click here to download the free Godrays Plugin from ProductionCrate. If you don’t have an Account, you can register here. Donations for the sample account are optional, you can sign up without any payment! This plugin comes packed with features. Simply drag and drop the […]
Watch this tutorial and learn how you can become Doctor Strange with VFX! We have some downloadable content to help you on your VFX journey. Check out these links Magic Circle VFX Magic Circle Vector AE Shield Template Magic Cloak VFX Magic Cloak 3D Model
There are a multitude of techniques you can use to animate a photo in After Effects, but our favorite approach has to be utilizing a depth map. This hasn’t always been easy. In the past, artists had to manually create a depth map by estimating and painting the greyscale images themselves. With the advances and […]
Fog and atmosphere always look awesome, but rendering them is still a pain. Noise, trouble with lights and lack of control (and of course slow rendering speeds) make us dread rendering fog scenes. Our approach is to add fog in post-production as often as possible using a depth pass. This trick is cheap and easy! […]
You can download our Free Sprite Sheet Generator for After Effects by signing in to your ProductionCrate Account and clicking here This powerful and easy to use tool is available for both Free and Pro users. Sprite sheets, sometimes referred to as Texture Atlases, are a useful way to store image sequences or animations in […]
Download Crate’s Face Relighter for Pro users here Windows Compatible Only When compositing VFX into live-action footage, one thing is absolutely essential to get right – lighting. This is the most powerful and crucial aspect of blending visual effects into video. When done correctly, replicating the real-world behaviour of light helps convince your viewers that what […]
We have amazing scripts, many of them completely free, for After Effects. Crate’s Camera Shake, the Hologram Generator, Crate’s Chromatic Aberration and tons of other useful tools are available for download on ProductionCrate. Accessing these amazing products is now easier than ever before. With our free Crate’s Toolbox, you can download and install our After Effects […]