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Royalty Free Jazz and Funk Music
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LaForge Plugin for After Effects & Login Manager App
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NEW CONTENT:
4K Seagull VFX
4K Stop Motion Paper Animations
Retro-Style Camera Model
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Blender Camera Movement Tutorial
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Theme: “Don’t Drop That”
Prize: NANLITE Pavoslim 60C
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4K Looping UFO VFX
4K Blood Splatters
4K Shooting Stars
Royalty-Free Thriller Music
Riser SFX
Sci-Fi Machine Gun
3D Train Engine
3D Train Car
3D Semi Truck
3D Vintage Minibike
3D Male Coveralls
3D Female Coveralls
VIDEOS:
Using Image Planes in Blender
Superhero Landing CapCut Tutorial
Superhero Flying CapCut Tutorial
Realstic Clothing Texutres in Adobe Substance Painter
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Theme: Hold Your Breath
Prize: Free ProductionCrate Pro Membership (1 Year)
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4K Fluid Motion VFX
4K Christmas Graphics & Transitions
4K MoGraph Accents
Cyberpunk Characters
Construction Worker Characters
3D Chopper Model
Action Music
Action Movie Sound Effects
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Cyberpunk Implant Tutorial
ByPlay App with Blender
iPhone Tornado VFX Tutorial
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Theme: Time Travel
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4K Twister VFX
4K Falling Debris
3D Gravestones
3D Spaceship Models
Epic Music
Cinematic Hits
Halloween Motion Graphics
SOFTWARE UPDATES:
ProductionCrate App
VIDEOS:
Download VFX Onto your Phone
How to use Byplay
Fire Hand VFX in CapCut
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Theme: Learning Magic
Prize: iFootage SL1 60DN
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4K Blood VFX
4K Gas Explosions
3D Character Skins & Outfits
Royalty Free Fantasy Music
Natural Sound Effects
3D Truck Models
Text Message Generator for After Effects
CONTENT UPDATES:
Sci-Fi Armor Model for Unreal Engine 4
VIDEOS:
Zombie Skin Textures in Substance Painter
Embroidery Patches with Substance Painter
VFX CONTEST:
Theme: The Darkness Within
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Digital text messages have rapidly become a fundamental part of our entertainment, featuring in popular shows like Sherlock and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Characters effectively convey crucial information to audiences through text messages. However, this process often proves tedious for motion graphics artists.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce our FREE After Effects extension, Crate’s Text Messages. This tool simplifies the creation of animated text message graphics in After Effects. To begin, log in to your ProductionCrate account and download the installer for Mac or Windows from the product page.
Once installed, customize both incoming and outgoing messages, including specifying sender details, starting times, and selecting from preset app styles or crafting your own. If you encounter issues or wish to start anew, simply utilize the reset button.
Once you click “generate,” the exchange transforms into multiple After Effects compositions. These compositions provide you with extensive controls for further customization.
Crate’s Text Message Generator
If you have not disabled your expression error settings, you may see a warning banner the first time you run the extension. You can uncheck this option in After Effects Preferences -> Scripting & Expressions.
Should you encounter any issues when using this script, contact us at support@productioncrate.com
NEW CONTENT:
4K Dirty Ground Explosions
4K Ground Dust Shockwaves
4K Rolling Shockwave VFX
Royalty Free Drama Music
Mo-Graph Sound Effects
3D Military Character Packs
SOFTWARE UPDATES:
ProducitonCrate AR App
VIDEOS:
Ragdoll Tutorial in Unreal Engine
Blender Animation Beginner Tutorial
Depth Map Compositing in After Effects
Modular Military Character Packs
Modular Character Tutorial
VFX CONTEST:
Theme: Combo Fight
Prize: TASCAM Portacapture X6
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 accessibility of Machine Learning tools, a better approach is now readily available.
Photoshop is leading the charge with their Neural Filters. Here’s how to create a Depth Map in Photoshop.
Select your photo layer, go to Filter > Neural Filters > Depth Blur and toggle it on. Then select Output Depth Map Only and once it is done processing in the cloud, select Duplicate Layer and hit Okay
Now you can easily animate your image using your depth map and the displacement map plugin in After Effects!
If you’re looking to add some nice dust overlay assets, find them here
If you’re creating an ad, celebrating an event or stylizing a photo these new Gold Balloon Assets will be perfect. We have created letters A-Z, numbers 1-9 and several special characters to give you complete creative freedom.
For video editors we have rendered out looping animations for each character. If you use After Effects, speed up your editing by utilizing the TypeCrate script, which will allow you to simply type in the words you want to appear! A looping function will automatically be applied to your letters, just drag out the tail end and randomly offset them. Learn more by checking out the TypeCrate Script page.
Our rendered letters will work in any editing software, but if you’re looking for even more control, then download the 3D Assets! We rendered our animations with gold, which can be easily changed to any color with the Hue and Saturation effect, but if you want sparkly material or even more ability for tracking into your scene, these 3D assets will give you that ability.
For graphics artists, we rendered out 4K stills for each character. These high-resolution images can be composited into any photo with ease.
If you’re looking for even more content, you can download Balloon Sound Effects from SoundsCrate!