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Get ProductionCrate's three new free After Effects plugins

Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.

Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Download 14 free destruction FX clips from ProductionCrate

Add debris to VFX and motion graphics projects with these HD stock effects. For commercial use.

Sunday, June 11th, 2023

Download ProductionCrate's new free VFX starter pack

Get 50 stock FX clips, including explosions, fire and magic effects. ProRes/H.264 format, up to 4K, for commercial use.

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Download 10 x 16K space HDRIs from ProductionCrate

Get 10 free high-res HDRIs suitable for rendering deep space scenes. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, January 8th, 2023

Download 500 free stock FX elements from ProductionCrate

Get free explosions, smoke and energy effects clips. ProRes format, HD resolution, for commercial use.

Sunday, January 17th, 2021

Download cool free After Effects plugin Crate's Black Hole

ProductionCrate's free After Effects plugin adds beautiful Interstellar-inspired black holes to your VFX and motion graphics projects.

Sunday, December 21st, 2025

Get free After Effects plugin Crate's Text Message Generator

ProductionCrate's free add-on generates strings of animated text messages for VFX and motion graphics work.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Download free After Effects image export script aeJPG

Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.

Monday, February 13th, 2023

Download free After Effects plugin Crate's Light Wrap

ProductionCrate's plugin creates quick, controllable light wraps in After Effects. For commercial use.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

Download free After Effects plugin Crate's Godrays

Add fast-rendering volumetric light rays to VFX and motion graphics with ProductionCrate's free tool.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

Download the free Modern Industrial Pack of 3D models

Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.

Thursday, July 28th, 2022

Download over 90 free 3D models from RenderCrate

Free assets include this modular kit of 3D parts for medieval castles. FBX format, 8K PBR textures, commercial use.

Sunday, February 13th, 2022

Latest News

Houdini plant-generation toolkit Natsura is now in early access

Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX. Now available for commercial use.

Friday, April 10th, 2026

Nekki releases Cascadeur 2026.1

AI-assisted animation tool gets new Root Motion system to automatically generate animation between key poses, plus new UE5 live link.

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Autodesk acquires core tech of AI motion-capture firm Radical

Autodesk buys core tech and IP of the AI mocap pioneer. The Radical website will shut down on 6 July, so download your data before then.

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Chaos discontinues its Phoenix fluid simulation software

Smoke, fire and liquid simulator for 3ds Max and Maya is now end-of-support, and will receive no further compatibility updates or fixes.

Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

Get free Maya character rigging toolset mGear 5.3

'Most feature-rich' update to the open-source rigging framework adds tools for automating Set Driven Key setup and blendshape transfer.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Retopoflow 4 now makes Blender auto-save in Edit Mode

Latest update to the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools fixes a long-standing issue with Blender itself. Check out the other changes.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

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