Download cool free After Effects plugin Crate’s Black Hole
Online asset library ProductionCrate has released Crate’s Black Hole, a new free After Effects plugin for creating beautiful, Interstellar-inspired black holes.
The plugin, targeted at motion graphics and visual effects work, is part of ProductionCrate’s new LaForge Suite collection of plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Add beautiful Interstellar-inspired black holes to After Effects projects
Crate’s Black Hole creates black holes inspired by DNEG’s pioneering visual effects work on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
Gargantua, the supermassive black hole featured in the movie, took over 100 hours per frame to render, using a custom physically plausible render engine developed specially for the project.
The output of Crate’s Black Hole is less nerd-pleasingly scientifically accurate, but it does generate eye-catching results – and, crucially, it does so in less than a second.
You can modify the black hole using parameters including mass, speed, thickness, density and color, along with volumetric noise properties to adjust the look of the accretion disk and corona.
To help you get started, the plugin comes with 10 preset looks.
Crate’s Black Hole is the latest free plugin in LaForge Suite, ProductionCrate’s collection of 25 utility plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro, which also includes glow and image stylization effects like pixelation, CRT monitor and hologram looks.
More free After Effects plugins and stock VFX and motion graphics assets
ProductionCrate has a number of other free After Effects plugins, including free light wrap tool Crate’s Light Wrap and volumetric lighting tool Crate’s God Rays.
The site also provides a library of over 10,000 stock VFX and motion graphics elements, over 500 of which can be downloaded for free.
Licensing and system requirements
Crate’s Black Hole is compatible with After Effects CC 2020+, on Windows 10+ or macOS 12.0+.
To download it, you need to register for an account on the ProductionCrate website, install its free Portal app, then use that to install the full LaForge Suite of plugins.
The free plugins are fully functional, and are licensed for commercial use. The remaining plugins in the LaForge Suite are watermarked for free users.
To use the remaining plugins without watermarks requires a Pro subscription, priced at $39/month or $299/year, or an Enterprise subscription, priced on enquiry.
Download free After Effects plugins Crate’s Black Hole
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