A new Video Copilot show has splash-landed! We showed an early version of the SHOW at VC LIVE in January so we are excited to show it to the world! We made a mess so you don’t have to! Just download the FREE stock footage collection and use in your own projects!

Watch on Youtube in HD

Download Slime Stock FX PACK
FORMAT: 25 High Quality 2K+ Prores: USE After Effects or Premiere to preview!
Note: Most video players on PC do not support pro res.

In other exciting news, early this year I helped create a big project for THX and even though it was extremely challenging work (especially trying to finish development on new plug-ins) But the chance to learn Cinema 4D more deeply and manage a complex project was a great experience for my personal growth. Sometimes it takes a big objective to overcome the difficulty of learning new programs.

Even more exciting, we are already working on a BIG Behind-the-Scenes video and tutorials around the work we did on this project and it’s massive. The transitions were a lot of fun and some parts simpler than they look!

Don’t worry, still finding time to discover new tricks in After Effects!

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Happy Star Wars day! To celebrate our love for Star Wars we are giving away a sweet collection of 3D models that we built so you can learn to create your own visual effects! Our goal is to show you tips for Lighting, Rigging and animating so you can learn to create exciting visual FX too!

These are not just some piece of junk models, these models are HD quality with detailed 4K textures! Plus they render fast inside Element 3D! How fast? Fast enough for you!

We had a blast creating this collection and we hope you will have fun playing with these models too!

Just to be clear, we do not mean to imply any Star Wars endorsement or sponsorship, Star Wars was a huge inspiration to my visual FX education and we know it has inspired many others to learn about visual FX.

Note: All scenes rendered inside Element 3D V2!

Need Light Sabers or laser blasts? Use our Free Saber plug-in!

Included Models: OBJ with DDS Textures and optional JPG files!

*Some of the names included on this page are registered trademarks of Lucasfilm.

DOWNLOAD STAR WARS MODEL PACK! (Place in Video Copilot model folder)

DOWNLOAD model pack

Alternate Textures Files: Download JPG Map files

Need some LightSabers or Laser blasts? Use our Free Saber plug-in!

New MacOS Catalina Support
Install latest version of Mac plugin!

Watch Tutorial on Youtube in HD

Our sweet new energy plug-in is available right now for free! Check out the tutorial and start downloading! Staying up for two days straight is not ideal but happy to have it up!

Key Uses:

Features:

DOWNLOAD PLUG-IN: For After Effects!

DOWNLOAD

windows

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apple

I finally got tired of doing this manually, so we created a free script!

What is this script for? The 3D Pre-Compose Script makes it easy to pre-compose 3D-aware layers by automatically copying all cameras & lights into the new comp with linked expressions! Just watch the tutorial to see all the amazing possibilities! Plus it’s Free!

Watch Tutorial on YouTube

Watch Tutorial on Video Copilot

What can you do with it?

• Create displacement maps out of 3D aware layers
• Isolate 3D layers for different lighting setups in the same scene
• Disable DOF for certain layers
• Lens Flare obscuration maps in 3D: For Element 3d & Particular etc
• Apply 2D effects to a 3D layer in screen space

Download Script