Cosplay + VFX = Awesome!
We visited the San Diego Comic-Con this year and took some cool video of cosplayers. They were superheroes and super-villains in need of powers, we decided to do something about that.
ProductionCrate Monthly Update: December 2023
NEW CONTENT: 4K Looping UFO VFX 4K Blood Splatters 4K Shooting Stars Royalty-Free Thriller Music Riser SFX Sci-Fi Machine Gun 3D Train Engine 3D Train Car 3D Semi Truck 3D Vintage Minibike 3D Male Coveralls 3D Female Coveralls VIDEOS: Using Image Planes in Blender Superhero Landing CapCut Tutorial Superhero Flying CapCut Tutorial Making Lava in […]
ProductionCrate Monthly Update: July 2023
NEW CONTENT: 4K Splash VFX 4K Meteor VFX Suspense Music Idents Royalty Free Lo-Fi Music Tracks 3D Military Truck Model FREE Cyberpunk Hand 3D Model Skeleton Warrior Pack (Unreal Engine) Worker Robot (Blender) VIDEOS: Unreal Engine Cinematics Tutorial Robotic Arm 3D Tutorial Green Screen Compositing in After Effects Tutorial Beginner 3D Tracking in After Effects […]
How to Use the ACES Workflow in After Effects 2023 – Tutorial
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 Free Space and Planet HDRI Images – How to Create Space Environments in Blender
Download free space HDRI images for your 3D VFX project here. ProductionCrate has released an incredible bundle of 100 space and atmosphere HDRIs for you to use in your 3D digital art and VFX. 10 of these are available to download for free today, and only require you to sign up for a free ProductionCrate […]
Download Free Light Wrap Plugin for After Effects
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 […]
Free Castle 3D Model Kit – Download Now
Download the free photorealistic 3D castle kit for your 3D projects here. For a limited time, you can access an incredible 3D castle kit to use in your projects with no price at all. With over 60+ unique modular 3D assets, this pack provides an unlimited degree of freedom to create the perfect medieval empire. […]
Animate a Photo in After Effects with Photoshop Depth Pass
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 […]
Download Crate’s Face Relighter for After Effects
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 […]
Download Modular City Road 3D Models – Tutorial
Download the 3D City Road Models here. Along every 3D modeller’s journey, there is an attempt to create a 3D city. Several fatiguing hours later, it becomes clear that this project is no walk in the park. One of the most time-consuming steps in such a project is creating the roads, where everything from pathways, […]