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 […]
Download the free photorealistic 3D castle kit for your 3D projects here. For a limited time, you can access an incredible 3D castle kit to use in your projects with no price at all. With over 60+ unique modular 3D assets, this pack provides an unlimited degree of freedom to create the perfect medieval empire. […]
We released our biggest 3D Pack ever, the Modular Kingdom Pack. Download this Free 3D Collection of castle, buildings, walls and structures to use in your Visual Effects and filmmaking projects. RenderCrate is a library full of free and Pro 3D models that you can download. Anything not marked with a star is 100% free! […]
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 […]
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 […]