We have added over 30 new ground-shattering and earthquake VFX to download from FootageCrate. These 4K visual effects come in a variety of angles, shapes, and speeds. Cracking surface effects are versatile for VFX and 3D Artists. Composite them into After Effects to enhance impacts within the scene, or use as animated textures in your […]
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 […]
Explosion sound effects are incredibly useful. Authentic sound design paired with quality VFX can fully immerse an audience. Unfortunately, high-quality explosion sound effects are hard to find. As such, we have added 60 explosion sound effects to download for free on ProductionCrate. We made sure to include a variety of styles to these SFX. Choose […]
You can now download our free Epic Fantasy Music Album. There are 30 Tracks in this amazing bundle. Find it in ProductionCrate’s Fantasy Music Category It’s easy to be fooled, but we didn’t work with an orchestra to make this collection. This incredible album was created by only two composers, SoundsCrate‘s Gerardo Garcia and Isabelle […]
3D artists want to see results fast. We’re getting spoiled in this wonderful age of GPU rendering, and can’t we get enough. The tools of the trade get better every year, and 2022 is no exception. NVIDIA has been making waves with Omniverse, a creator suite with amazing tools for 3D Artists. Mike has been […]
Enter this Month’s VFX Contest Here Find the Comp-In Continuous Shockwaves Here Find the Charge Up and other SciFi Sound Effects Here See all the Graphics Here
We have half a dozen VFX artists working at ProductionCrate, with our education ranging from completely self-taught to entirely curriculum based. For new and prospective VFX artists, there eventually comes a time in your educational journey to choose between taking online classes, or to be entirely self-taught. Our artists are very familiar with this fork […]
We have 5 new 3D Spaceship models available for download. Get these models for free to use in your projects. These can be instanced hundreds of times to fill an entire futuristic night sky, or scattered around a newly terraformed planet. To provide more flexibility and creativity, we’re including 2 different skins for each of […]
We recently discovered this treasure trove of free Facial Blendshapes provided by the Institute for Creative Technology at USC. This pack has over 150 facial blendshapes and is released under the MIT license. The pack will help you to create completely customizable characters with their amazing presets. Mike Smith, a 3d and VFX Artist at […]
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 […]