Download the free Heat Radiation plugin for After Effects here. ProductionCrate is releasing a free plugin for Adobe After Effects – Heat Radiation. We’ve lost count of the number of times that we have added any fire-based effect to our VFX. Maintaining realistic colours is always a challenge for artists, as different fire VFX assets […]
Predator effects are awesome. The Predator cloaking and thermal-vision VFX have been used since the original premiered in 1987, and we decided to finally tackle these iconic FX ourselves. Check out our #SaturdayMorningTutorial below to learn how to make these FX yourself in Adobe After Effects! You can find our HUD Video Assets Here And the […]
Joseph Lawson has been in the field of Visual Effects for over 20 years, with credits on iconic movies and shows like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Star Trek: Enterprise, and many films from The Asylum (the Sharknado series). The father-son team at Lawson Digital Arts bring us their latest […]
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 […]
Download the fire font typography kit here. Introducing your new favorite font, the Inferno Typekit! This tool is designed to help you create your own intense flaming title animations without any specialist editing knowledge required. The characters from A-Z are free to download for all users. Pro members of the ProductionCrate community can access the […]
How I Mix Audio For Horror Films Using Logic Pro X Featuring Excerpts From The New SoundsCrate Horror SFX Library. While I use Logic Pro X you can replicate these techniques in other audio-editing software. In this article, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite features and benefits of Logic Pro X as it […]
Story: The Great Unseen Equalizer in VFX There is an art to using VFX as an unseen tool. So much consideration goes into the curating of what you, the viewer, see at any given moment, that it is easy to forget about what you don’t see in a shot. But more often than not, what […]