In our latest Monthly Crate Update, Niko shows off all the latest content you can access with your membership! Find Magic Cloak Animations Here Scarlet Witch inspired Magic Here Raven and Crow Effects 3D Spaceships and enter the next VFX Contest Here: https://contests.productioncrate.com/
Watch this tutorial and learn how you can become Doctor Strange with VFX! We have some downloadable content to help you on your VFX journey. Check out these links Magic Circle VFX Magic Circle Vector AE Shield Template Magic Cloak VFX Magic Cloak 3D Model
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 […]
Our Magic VFX assets are one of the most downloaded, most requested and most seen categories. We always get asked how we made them, and decided to finally show off some of our tricks! Since we were revisiting these effects, we decided to add 60 new Magic Impact and Block VFX assets. Take a few […]
Bass drops are one of the greatest tools in your audio arsenal. The low, core shaking tones are perfect when you need emphasis in your scene. Whether you’re making an epic title intro or pummeling a villain, try a bass drop. You won’t be disappointed. We’ve added 30 Free Bass Drop Sound Effects. We have […]
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 […]
Fog and atmosphere always look awesome, but rendering them is still a pain. Noise, trouble with lights and lack of control (and of course slow rendering speeds) make us dread rendering fog scenes. Our approach is to add fog in post-production as often as possible using a depth pass. This trick is cheap and easy! […]
Who isn’t inspired by their childhood? The aesthetics and styles we grew up with influence us daily. I took that inspiration to another level. Kakashi, a character from the Naruto anime series, was always one of my favorites. His awesome powers were always so iconic, I knew I had to try and recreate them with […]
You can download our Free Sprite Sheet Generator for After Effects by signing in to your ProductionCrate Account and clicking here This powerful and easy to use tool is available for both Free and Pro users. Sprite sheets, sometimes referred to as Texture Atlases, are a useful way to store image sequences or animations in […]
Comedy is hard It is one of the least forgiving genres. Setting up a joke and missing the mark is painful. The best way to avoid falling flat is to warm your viewers up and make them ready to laugh! A great way to do this is by utilizing comedy music in your edits. Your […]