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22 What to do at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)

What to do at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)

Every industry has its yearly, go-to event, a time when the movers and shakers convene on the new-ness of talent or product. In comics: Comicon. For VFX and computer graphics: Siggraph.  Gaming: E3. Consumer electronics: CES. I could go on — But have you ever heard of NAB? The National Association of  Broadcasters trade show […]

24 Add Realistic Camera Shake to your Video

How to add realistic camera shake in After Effects – Crate’s Camera Shake

Download Crate’s Camera Shake script here (Available for Pro Members) There’s something unnatural about the well-known wiggle expression. It’s fair to say that this sort of shake is too perfect. If you watch over a hand-held video recording, you’ll be quick to notice the immense differences between handheld footage and the go-to wiggle expression. While the […]

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Lava and Volcano VFX Assets

Download HD Lava and Volcano VFX assets here 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 […]

26 Zombie Apocalypse VFX Compositing Tutorial

Zombie VFX Compositing Tutorial!

Download HD pre-keyed zombie VFX assets here Continuing from a recent post showcasing our zombie effects, it’s time to put them into action with a quick tutorial! For the readers who have just joined us, welcome! FootageCrate has a bundle of truly extraordinary stock footage of green-screened and pre-keyed HD zombie effects. This means that […]

27 Spaceship Journey!

Create an Epic Space Scene

Using After Effects and Element 3D Adrian and Chris teach you some tricks to creating a cool space-travel scene!   FREE USS Space Crate 3D Model   Use our Free 3d Spaceship model with textures in your own space-scene! FootageCrate Space Travel Assets   Here you can find our lightspeed and star assets Chromatic Aberrator Script   The […]

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Bow & Arrow Sound FX

We’ve been recycling the same arrow swoosh and bow-twang sound effects for nearly a year, and decided to do a complete overhaul of our bow and arrow sound effects. This was a two stage process. First, Chris and Adrian joined a professional audio engineer and a shockingly talented archer to record some foley. Arrows, feathers, […]

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Interview with Matt Dean – SyFy Original: Megalodon!

The SyFy Channel has a long history producing VFX heavy Shark Week films, and 2018 was no exception. One of those films released was the SyFy original Megalodon (not to be confused with The Meg (2018)) We had the pleasure to talk with Matt Dean, a VFX artist who knows a thing or two about […]

30 Great Spy Music

6 New Spy Music Tracks!

Need music for a heist, caper, spy scene or any sneaky business? We got you covered. These 6 new tracks will make your audience wring their hands in anticipation. We’re offering a few tracks with more serious tones, and a few that are more playful. We’ve used these in a few of our shorts already, […]