What an awesome month! We announce the final winner of 2018 and the last trophy we are going to give out. Check out all the awesome content and the new 2019 contest below. Enter the Contest Here Find the Water Swell Sound FX Here See all of our New Years VFX Find the new Money […]
Download HD snow effects for your videos here With only a few days to go until Christmas takes over, it’s time to go over one of the most fundamental uses of VFX compositing – snow! Whether you’re shooting a Christmas comedy or a reflective and chilling scene for your film, snow can always help add […]
Download HD Helicopter VFX assets here 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 […]
Compositing can be exhausting. We composite on a daily basis, and always want to improve our workflow. Light-wrapping in After Effects isn’t too difficult, but it can be a long process. Speed things up for yourself and Download the Free Light Wrap Script Oh, and it’s Free for everybody! Light-wrapping is an essential technique to make your […]
One easy and quick way you can make your presented videos more exciting is to have a great background! We’ve built out one of the largest libraries of HD backgrounds you can find, all ready for you to download from our motion-graphics category today, with some of them even being completely free! Use them in […]
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 […]
If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you’ve stumbled upon our puddle map collection and wondered, “What on Earth are these for?”. You’re not alone! If you’ve had some experience with 3D design, you may be familiar with “glossy maps” or “reflection maps”. These are textures which can tell rendering software how “shiny” an object […]
Episode 41 Harry Potter Wand Effects Tutorial Chris, Adrian, and the reformed Professor Unicorn prepare to battle his old apprentice; Ellen, The Hidden One! Enemies become allies, a student confronts her former mentor, and the fate of all the magic in the world is at stake in the finale to Season 3 of Saturday […]
Download the MotionCrate Script and give your stock VFX assets some life. This is the BEST script for creating realistic fire in After Effects. Unarchive the .ZIP and install the MotionCrate Script into your After Effects>Scripts folder. Launch the script in AE by going to File>Scripts and selecting MotionCrate Here’s what you will see – The script […]
Inspired by Deadpool 2, we wanted to challenge ourselves with getting this effect to look as realistic as possible. We failed at our first attempt; trying to build the effect purely in post. After going back to the drawing-board we realized the best technique would be to have 2 identical guns, but one sawed in […]