Download the free Heat Radiation plugin for After Effects here. ProductionCrate is releasing a free plugin for Adobe After Effects – Heat Radiation. We’ve lost count of the number of times that we have added any fire-based effect to our VFX. Maintaining realistic colours is always a challenge for artists, as different fire VFX assets […]
Sign in and Download the Crate’s Shape Script Here Place the script into your Adobe > After Effects> Scripts Folder, and the Images into Adobe > After Effects > Scripts > Images, if you already have an images folder just drag the images from Crate’s Shape Script .ZIP into that folder. Please report any bugs you […]
Download the Free After Effects Glow Script here Believe it or not, there’s a lot that goes into a good glow effect! I’m overly passionate about this particular topic, and would happily spend hours fine-tuning each little pixel of my glow to make sure it makes my VFX absolutely perfect – and ProductionCrate wants to […]
What do people mean when they say ‘cinematic’? You’ve seen the videos suggesting harsh color-grading, or the tutorials that tell you to just throw on some aspect-ratio bars. The truth is, there is no simple one-step solution. Quality footage shot with dynamic range will allow you to create the exact look you want. There are […]
Some moments just need to be epic. Maybe your hero makes the ultimate sacrifice, saving everyone else in the process. Or perhaps your hero is about to hold the holy relic, untouched by man for thousands of years. These moments can only be as epic as the sound accompanying them. That’s why we decided to […]
Download Space and Nebula VFX assets here. Space scenes are the highlights of sci-fi movies, and following the success of films such as Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, we want to help you build your very own interstellar wonders! We’ve just released an incredible bundle of 50 nebula matte-painting assets. These have all […]
Crate’s Midpoint Null Generator Script is Free and can be downloaded Here. Start with two null objects, these can be tracked in manually or using one of the various tracking features in After Effects. Make sure your AE Script is installed in the After Effects > Scripts Folder Within After Effects go to File > […]
Story: The Great Unseen Equalizer in VFX There is an art to using VFX as an unseen tool. So much consideration goes into the curating of what you, the viewer, see at any given moment, that it is easy to forget about what you don’t see in a shot. But more often than not, what […]
You can download these HD bullet impact effect here It’s been a while since we last added bullet impact effects to our FootageCrate VFX library, but this update has been worth the wait! 12 incredible new impact assets are a part of our latest collection, with 3 being completely free to download now. You can find […]
1. Show Yourself If you don’t have an About Page, or no photo of yourself on your About Page, get one. People are hiring you to show up at their workplace, wedding, event or venue. They want to feel like they know who you are before you show up. If your potential client is trying […]