Freebie: 30 Horror Sound Effects Free from Rocketstock
October 26, 2018
From screeches and screams to spooky whispers and creepy ambience, get 30 spine-tingling SFX for your next Halloween project or horror film, free from Rocketstock
New: Insydium X-Particles 2018 for Cinema 4D
October 25, 2018
X-Particles 2018 is now available and is a fully-featured advanced particle and VFX system for MAXON’s Cinema 4D. In one system, you can design Cloth, Smoke, Fire, and Fluids while switching effortlessly between motion graphics and VFX.
Big Screen Effects: Behind the Scenes: VFX in The Nun and Conjuring Series
October 24, 2018
Yesterday we posted an article about how to make some of the effects in The Nun and Conjuring series from Film Riot, as well as Ghostbusters, and horror film effects in general. Today, go behind the scenes to see how they were done in production and post-production.
Update: Arnold Renderer v5.2.1 – New Round Corners Shader and More
October 23, 2018
The 5.2.1 update to Arnold adds several features, including a new Round Corners shader and Normal Map blending, to help you save time and work more efficiently.
Freebie: 40+ Free 4K Space Textures and Elements from PremiumBeat
October 19, 2018
PremiumBeat has a stellar Space Kit filled with over 40 space-themed textures and elements, all at 4K and it’s free!
Update: Allegorithmic Substance Source: Creature Skins
October 18, 2018
Scales, suction pads, blisters and goo. Oh My! Allegorithmic has added a wide variety of creature skins to Substance Source. And with Halloween right around the corner, you can find that perfect skin the monster, alien, zombie or whatever your are working on.
Freebie: Quick Chromatic Aberration for After Effects | Plugin Everything
October 12, 2018
Plugin Everything Quick Chromatic Abberation (RGB separation) can make pixel perfect computer graphics feel like it was shot with a lens.
Review: Filmlight Baselight for Avid
October 8, 2018
Lily Kleinman with No Film School, used Baselight Editions V5 for Avid Media Composer, to help with color grading on a final episode in a television series, and found it to be a “powerful color tool in an AVX plugin.”
Freebie: Audio Sound Effects and Samples
October 5, 2018
Blue Zone has a full 1 GB of royalty free audio freebies on their site. The sounds are from their packages and include lots of great ambient sounds for Halloween alien sounds, slams, sound effects, and ambient sounds… perfect for your Halloween soundtrack.
Freebie: Cinema 4D: Top 5 Best FREE C4D Plug-ins – The Pixel Lab
October 5, 2018
Joren from The Pixel Lab has compiled a list of his 5 favorite Free Cinema 4D plug-ins, based on those he uses the most.
New: Anyfont 4D – Animated Handwriting Plug-in for Cinema 4D – is Now Available
October 1, 2018
Anyfont 4D is a simple to use plug-in for Cinema 4D, which allows the user to generate 3D animated handwriting effect right inside C4D.
Update: Greyscalegorilla Signal Updated for R20 Support – All GSG Plug-ins R20 Compatible
September 24, 2018
All Greyscalegorilla Plug-ins are now R20 compatible, including Signal with a limited-time patch.
Freebie: iToo Forest Pack: New photoscanned rocks and leaves presets
September 21, 2018
iToo is offering 2 new libraries of photoscanned rocks and leaves, free for Forest Pack 6 users via the Update Manager.
New: The Pixel Farm PFTrack 2018 is Now Available
September 20, 2018
PFTrack 2018, the 3D tracking software from The Pixel Farm, now offers a standalone application PFManager, a brand new Project Manager, tracking tree enhancements and more.
Freebie: Fusion: Download Reactor 2.0 for free
September 7, 2018
The We Suck Less Fusion user community (WSL) has released Reactor 2.0, a free and open source package manager for Fusion and DaVinci Resolve.