ProductionCrate is here to help you celebrate the season with some festive and fun video effects for your projects. Here’s a peek at some of the wonderful assets we have wrapped up for you.
Snow Effect Overlays
Edit in our looping snow effects with no time at all thanks to it all being pre-keyed. Our snowfall assets range from realistic blizzards to gentle cartoon snow. You can edit these snow effects into Premiere Pro and any other editing suite.
Transitions
Give your video cuts a merry makeover with our animated Christmas themed transitions. ranging from snowmen, Christmas trees, gifts and more. Place these effects over two clips at the point where they cut in an editor such as Premiere Pro or After Effects.
Backgrounds
Use an exciting Christmas backdrop for your greenscreens or presentations. We’ve made sure that these backgrounds loop, meaning you can have them endlessly play without any visible seams or cuts where the footage repeats itself.
We hope you enjoy editing your festive videos over the holidays!
We’re giving you the chance to download one of our dozens of premium waving flag videos.
What makes this footage special, is not only is it 4K, but it loops!
This means you can have the footage repeat itself without any visible jumping cuts or fades, giving the possibility to play the video for hours!
These flag effects are perfect for country presentations, patriotic videos and perfect backgrounds for your content.
Our full range of country flags includes:
Australian Flag
Bangladeshian Flag
Brazilian Flag
Canadian Flag
Chinese Flag
Danish Flag
Finnish Flag
French Flag
German Flag
Great British Flag
Indian Flag
Indonesian Flag
Italian Flag
Japanese Flag
Malaysian Flag
Maltese flag
Mexican Flag
New Zealand Flag
Nigerian Flag
North Korean Flag
Norwegian Flag
Pakistani Flag
Flag of the Philippines
Russian Flag
Singaporean Flag
South African Flag
South Korean Flag
Spanish Flag
Swedish Flag
Taiwan Flag
Turkish Flag
USA Flag
If a flag you need is missing from our library, and you would like to download it, write a comment below or send a message to support@productioncrate.com! We would love to hear from you.
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Here you can showcase your work, find answers to your technical questions and talk with the community.
The Forums are the newest addition to the many resources ProductionCrate has to offer. We want to help connect video and filmmakers from around the globe and keep this insanely awesome community growing.
If you have any questions or issues while using the Forums make sure to email us at support@productioncrate.com
Say hello to your new source of specialist HDRI environment maps!
GraphicsCrate has widened its ever-expanding library of assets for visual artists by releasing over 25 HDRI maps, all ready to download. Our CG approach to creating these meant we are able to provide an exclusive range of environments unlike any other, such as space, oceans and at cloud-level.
We’ve also ensured that all of these have an un-clipped high dynamic range, meaning you can drop these into your 3D scenes and get the perfect lighting instantly.
These graphics are unlike any other, giving you the power to realistically light a spacecraft orbiting Earth, or even an aircraft mid-flight.
Our 8K resolution maps allow them to be used directly as backgrounds in your 3D projects without any further compositing.
Once downloaded, it’s yours forever! You can use it in games, 3D rendering and compositing to create the perfect look for your scene.
These textures are in .hdr format, which is compatible with most industry standard software such as 3ds Max, Cinema4D, Maya and Houdini, meaning you will never have to go through the hassle of converting to another file format.
Need even more 3D content? Discover our road materials here!
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Time is running out, your hero has only a small window to hack into the mainframe, but security knows someone has broken into the building. Will he be able to get the documents onto the zip drive before he is caught?
No Release (Free)
This track gives you the feeling of being watched, but you don’t know from where. Keep moving, you never know how close they are.
Unseen Forces (Free)
Syncopated sounds keep you on edge in this track, there is no mystery any more, just the fear of the unavoidable.
Invisible Waves (Pro)
There is no obvious rhythm or beat in this track, it has an ominous tone, perfect for the abandoned laboratory or underground bunker scene!
Quiet Night (Pro)
This track has more of a haunting tone, and could fit in just as easily in our Suspense Category as our Thriller.
Our brand new helicopter assets have landed in the FootageCrate library, giving you the power to create your own stunning action movie VFX!
Over 30 exciting elements are available for you, with some of them being free to download. We’ve made sure the selection covers all of the intense helicopter sequences you’ll need to build the perfect narrative for your project.
The collection includes take-offs, flybys, static graphics and even a spectacular helicopter crash.
It’s time to get started with the tutorial, so you can learn how to add these helicopter VFX into your own videos! We’ll be going over the general workflow which covers the steps you need to take to composite all of our helicopter assets. I’ll also be using After Effects today, but you can replicate the steps in almost any compositing software such as Hitfilm and Nuke.
We’ll first need a background, which today will be this beautiful aerial mountain scenery from Pexels, but feel free to use your own!
Once you’ve created a composition featuring your background, find a helicopter asset that best suits your shot. There’s many to choose from, so you’ll have no trouble finding one that you want. I recommend that you also consider the lighting when deciding which effect you want for your VFX. Here I’ll be using a looping shot from the side:
Drop the effect into a new layer of your composition, and position it where you need it. Since the background and the helicopter don’t have matching sources of light, I flipped the landscape horizontally in order to have the light coming from the same direction. This goes a long way when it comes to making sure your effect fits naturally into your scene!
The shot is already looking pretty good, but we’ll perform some colour correction to make it perfect. I used a curves effect to lightly decrease the red as well as increase the blue, which matched the chilling tone of the environment.
No action scene is complete without some background motion blur, which also gives the illusion that the helicopter is moving at great speeds. It also helps highlight the main feature of our shot, so that it stands out from the rest.
This is the third tutorial in a row which has made use of our ProductionCrate Lightwrap generator, so if you haven’t checked it out already download it here! This tool is an absolute game-changer when it comes to compositing inside After Effects. It takes the colour of the environment and blends it into the edges of the asset, making it seem as though light from the scene is bouncing off our helicopter and into the camera. The default settings will do for most scenes, so hitting “Generate” should do the trick, but feel free to adjust the settings if needed.
You’ve made it to the end! We now have a photorealistic helicopter VFX effect in almost no time at all thanks to ProductionCrate’s helicopter library. It’s time to add our final colour corrections to give it the cinema-quality tone we want to see (here I had increased the contrast and saturation).
Volcanoes are some of the most incredible spectacles of the natural world. Our only issue is that lava is very hot, and isn’t readily available on most movie sets.
That is what has led us to create this brand new bundle of volcano themed VFX assets, all ready to drop into your video. These range from 1080p all the way to 4K, and have been pre-keyed to streamline your editing workflow.
Create an apocalyptic landscape using one of our several magma-bursts, giving the appearance that the ground is breaking up into absolute chaos! You can even check out our fire and ember VFX assets to further add detail into your compositions.
Our full range of content includes lava bursts, and lava falls, which is the perfect combination to get started!
You can learn how to create your own Lava FX in this After Effects Tutorial
There’s no doubt we’ll be adding more of these in the future, so keep updated by registering to ProductionCrate today, and access one of the worlds greatest libraries for visual effects, sound effects and music.
Check out this Saturday Morning Tutorial where we teach you how to recreate this awesome effect we spotted in the Captain Marvel movie trailer in Adobe After Effects!
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Chris: Hey Jack, what are you working on right now?
Currently working on some content for some well known YouTubers under my little company, Trash Panda FX, most recently with the Sidemen, KSI and RackaRacka. Some other ones coming in I can’t say just yet but it should be a good time. (ProductionCrate will be helping us smash some amazing FX on these too!)
We always enjoy working with you, the DBZ vs. Avatar video that RackaRacka released was an insanely fun project to build VFX for.
What’s your VFX workflow like?
You try your best to make for a nice and sorted pipeline so everything moves smoothly. Get the shots and scenes nicely labeled and organised in folders and spreadsheets for artists to access, along with assets, camera data and anything required for their shots. Organise teams for clean up, comp work and FX to get it all to come together at the end.
One of the best attributes any artist/producer/filmmaker is to be a problem solver.
No matter how amazing your workflow/pipeline is, you will 110% come up against inconceivable problems. Being able push through and meet deadlines is a huge part of it.
You’re based out of Australia, and we’re here in California. Our workflow together has been great, even with the time difference. Do you mostly work with VFX Artists online, or do you work with some artists in-person? Do you have a preference?
It used to be more in person – but recently has been switching heavily to online. Which is great as it brings in awesome talent (such as ProductionCrate) and provides opportunities for people be part of some big projects without having to compromise leaving their home/family/friends.
I just prefer to work alongside reliable and talented artists who I believe can smash out shots regardless of location.
You’ve done a lot of work for some big YouTubers, what is your favorite project?
They’re all great. It’s weird, I think the quality of work is better than it has ever been. But my favourite has to be a throwback to Lord of the Rings vs Game of Thrones. My acting was phenomenal and I got to slice an arm off (2:20)
Haha, yeah I love that video. I remember seeing a behind-the-scenes of that short where Danny is trying to give you some direction (not that you needed it, being a phenomenal actor and all). That video has over 7 Million views! What’s the most viewed video you’ve worked on?
Was that the footage of me slipping on blood and cracking my head…hahaha
I think Richy from Royal Stampede was telling me the Tank gold digger prank has a total of close to a billion views, (including facebook shares, youtube, insta) which is crazy.
Can you give us some insight into what it’s like to do blockbuster VFX work? I know you’ve done work on Tarzan (2016), Pan (2015) and the Babadook (2014)
The smaller the company, the better. You feel less like a cog in a machine.
There is also more opportunity to grow and try things as you’re forced to become a generalist to help carry the workload. With bigger companies, you’ll get to work on bigger productions with great talent – but you will get burned out and discarded. It’s brutal the way some of my friends have been treated. But VFX artists have to be some of the best people you will ever meet and work alongside.
I know you use ProductionCrate content in a lot of your work (good choice!), any favorite assets or requests for content?
So definitely helped contribute to the viral success of that video.
When you’re racing shots out – you can’t go into the deep of making something custom and need to churn 10 shots out in a day.
Some of the FX on there can blow you away and save you from deadlines. As for requests, just keep doing what you guys are doing because you’re killing it!
Thanks, Jack!
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