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Freebie: Footage: Detonate – 40 Free Explosion VFX and SFX | PremiumBeat.com
Premium Beat is offering a free pack of explosions. 15 visual effects, complete with alpha’s, and 25 different explosion sound effects.
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Freebie Friday: Conservatory 3D Model for Cinema 4D from The Pixel Lab
The Pixel Lab has another great freebie for you! This would be a nice way to fill out your 3D garden, campus, or town. This C4D freebie pack is from Jim Field and it’s huge, with 15 3D conservatory models!
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Freebie: Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts: A Cheat Sheet
Using keyboard shortcuts is a great way to speed up your workflow. But trying to remember all of them when working with Adobe Illustrator can be next to impossible. Use these handy cheat sheets for both Mac and Windows to help give your brain a break.
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Freebie Friday: 5 Great to Score Crazy Amounts (and Some Just Crazy) Free Photoshop Brushes + Tuts
No matter which video tool you use, it’s likely that you use Photoshop as well. Photoshop brushes can help you create beautiful background elements or make organic looking mattes for your video, among other things. Here a curated list of resources where you can download a variety of Photoshop Brushes. Plus, we have some tutorials on using Photoshop brushes in other applications.
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Freebie: After Effects: Free Video Editing Assets: Lower Thirds
Lower thirds can add a nice level of professionalism to your After effects projects. But if you are on a tight budget, paying for them isn’t cost effective. Premium Beat has compiled some resourses, from free presets to DIY tutorials to help you create lower thirds without breaking the budget.
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Freebies: Resources for Seamless or High Resolution Textures
Here is a massive list of fantastic textures in your 2D or 3D project, games, videos, or whatever you like, to give your scenes realism and detail. If you can’t find what you are looking, scroll down for more options that are available at Toolfarm.
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Freebie: After Effects / Premiere Pro: Free Camera Shake Presets
Shake it up with 15 free authentic camera shake presets for After Effects and Premiere Pro from Premium Beat.
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Freebie: ZBrush: 35 Seam Brushes
Jonas Ronnegard is offering a set of 35 seam/stitch brushes for ZBrush (3 of which are sci-fi based), that are free for commercial use.
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Freebie: 3D Windmill Model for Cinema 4D from The Pixel Lab
It’s almost IBC time so many of our friends are heading Amsterdam soon. If you can’t make it to The Netherlands, you can download this Dutch style windmill from The Pixel Lab, created by Rick Ellis.
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Freebie: Free Sound Effects for Video or Audio Production
Download these great free sound effects that will add all sorts of ambiance to your soundtrack. Plus, some tools that may be useful to you if you’re doing a lot of sound work.
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Freebie: Substance Painter to Arnold 5 for Maya 0.1.2
Download this free Maya script by Mostafa Samir, a script to allow you to use textures exported from Substance Painter in Maya Arnold 5.
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Freebie: Download 25+ Boris Continuum 10 Title Studio Presets
Boris FX is giving away some Title Studio presets for BCC 10 users designed by UK-based artist Dan Harvey. Download it now for free and give your titles some zing!
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Freebie: BMX Bike Cinema 4D 3D Model
Animate a 180 Bunny Hop with this free Cinema 4D model from The Pixel Lab. It’s free for personal and/or commercial use.
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Freebie: Curious Animal Cluster Effector for CINEMA 4D
The Cluster Effector bunches your Mograph clones together based on their distance from each other. This effector can also be used as a deformer. It’s free to anyone who has purchased a perpetual licence for any Curious Animal Plugin – as well as anyone with an active plugin subscription.
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Freebie: After Effects: Script: Free After Effects Panorama Script Download
Aaron at VFX Bro has a free Panorama script for After Effects. There’s even a vfx breakdown video that shows the script in action so you can see how it works.