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3D Modeler allows you to create 3D models by extruding solid, shape, text, and transparent layers, applying textures, and manipulating surfaces using masks.
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UStylize Footage Fast With Boris FX Sapphire 2024
Introducing Boris FX Sapphire 2024 – an all-in-one plugin package that lets you create stunning organic looks that would be unmatched by any other effect tools. Featuring over 270 effects and 3000+ presets, this plug-in offers great control and image quality, allowing you to produce the kind of visuals that will keep your audience coming back for more. You will also benefit from its powerful Effect and Transition Builder, and enjoy the convenience of integrated tracking and masking with the Academy Award-winning Mocha. With Sapphire, you can save time and effort in your creative projects and focus on what matters most – delivering an impact that will capture the attention of your audience. Get Boris FX Sapphire 2024 and unlock the full potential of your creative projects.
Stylize Footage Fast With Boris FX Sapphire 2024
Introducing Boris FX Sapphire 2024 – an all-in-one plugin package that lets you create stunning organic looks that would be unmatched by any other effect tools. Featuring over 270 effects and 3000+ presets, this plug-in offers great control and image quality, allowing you to produce the kind of visuals that will keep your audience coming back for more. You will also benefit from its powerful Effect and Transition Builder, and enjoy the convenience of integrated tracking and masking with the Academy Award-winning Mocha. With Sapphire, you can save time and effort in your creative projects and focus on what matters most – delivering an impact that will capture the attention of your audience. Get Boris FX Sapphire 2024 and unlock the full potential of your creative projects.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Sapphire Annual Subscription for free!
The Swiss Army Knife of Plugins
Meeting tight turnarounds just got easier. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin collection delivers nearly 350 creative effects in 20 categories, 4000+ presets, built-in Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking, a Beat Reactor that drives VFX to music, and the FX Browser. Busy editors and artists rely on Continuum to get the job done.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Continuum Annual Subscription for free!
The Swiss Army Knife of Plugins
Meeting tight turnarounds just got easier. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin collection delivers nearly 350 creative effects in 20 categories, 4000+ presets, built-in Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking, a Beat Reactor that drives VFX to music, and the FX Browser. Busy editors and artists rely on Continuum to get the job done.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Continuum Perpetual License for free!
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Cinema 4D, Forger, Red Giant, Redshift, Universe, and ZBrush in One Bundle!
Introducing Maxon One – the ultimate subscription package for 3D artists and motion designers looking to bring their creative projects to life. With Maxon One, you gain instant access to an award-winning 3D animation tool with Cinema 4D as well as Red Giant Complete’s full collection of powerful tools for editing, VFX, and motion design. Plus, with ZBrush included in the bundle, you have the freedom to model sophisticated illustrations limited only by your imagination. Finally, the ultra-fast GPU renderer Redshift for Cinema 4D is also included. Now you can push the boundaries of what’s possible and take your creativity to a whole new level with a single all-encompassing package. Unlock the full potential of your creative brilliance with Maxon One!
3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software
Maxon Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering software solution. Its fast, powerful, flexible, and stable toolset make 3D workflows more accessible and efficient for design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, game development, and all types of visualization professionals. Cinema 4D produces stunning results, whether working on your own or in a team.
Cinema 4D 2024 provides unmatched speed and performance for the most sophisticated creative scenes. Rigid Body Simulations can now interact with all existing forces, pyro, cloth, and soft bodies. Pyro shines with a hot new feature that allows fire to be emitted from particles and matrices. And the new Vertex Normal tools offer artists unparalleled precision to perfect surfaces.
Redshift Now Available as Subscription
Redshift is the world’s first fully GPU-accelerated, biased renderer built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering in C4D. Tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and supports complex, advanced shading networks and texturing capabilities as required for production-quality rendering. Redshift has the features and uncompromising quality of a CPU renderer, but at GPU rendering speeds.
Get all the tools from Red Giant at one low price with Red Giant.
Maxon Red Giant is the leading provider of visual effects and motion graphics tools, offering innovative and powerful solutions for filmmakers, editors, motion designers, and visual effects artists. Red Giant tools empowers artists, filmmakers, and designers to bring their creative visions to life.
Get all the Red Giant tools for filmmaking and motion graphics. You’ll enjoy access to Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX, and Universe – each designed with innovative features that make it easy to craft eye-catching visuals!
Video transition and effects plugins for editors and motion graphics artists
Red Giant Universe is a collection of 89 GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Stylize your footage. Create motion graphics. Add transitions and effects. In addition, find text generators and lots of presets.
The All-In-One Digital Sculpting Solution Designed for the Pursuit of Art
ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting/painting. With customizable tools that can shape, texture, and paint virtual clay in real time with instant feedback, you’ll have unprecedented access to an endless range of precise digital creations.
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]]>Battle Axe Overlord 2, rewritten from the ground up, delivers speed increases and reliability. Intro offer just $60! Learn more about Overlord 2 and get it at a discount through August 12, 2024. Learn more
Vector workflow salvation
Battle Axe Overlord lets you transfer Illustrator elements directly into After Effects without importing files. Text and gradients supported for the first time ever.
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. A group transferred to After Effects will be created as a single-shape layer. Any nested groups will be added to this top-level group and layer.
Battle Axe Overlord 2, rewritten from the ground up, delivers speed increases and reliability. Intro offer just $60! Learn more about Overlord 2 and get it at a discount through August 12, 2024. Learn more
Vector workflow salvation
Battle Axe Overlord lets you transfer Illustrator elements directly into After Effects without importing files. Text and gradients supported for the first time ever.
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]]>Battle Axe Overlord 2, rewritten from the ground up, delivers speed increases and reliability. Intro offer just $60! Learn more about Overlord 2 and get it at a discount through August 12, 2024. Learn more
Vector workflow salvation
Battle Axe Overlord lets you transfer Illustrator elements directly into After Effects without importing files. Text and gradients supported for the first time ever.
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]]>Available as an annual subscription or a perpetual license.
The Academy Award-winning planar tracking toolset
Boris FX Mocha Pro brings world-renowned planar tracking, rotoscoping, object removal, and image stabilization capabilities, not to mention its groundbreaking PowerMesh technology. It comes as no surprise then that it was recognized with both Academy Award and Emmy acknowledgment for its contribution to the film & TV industry; from Oscar-nominated VFX films all the way down to small indie projects. Mocha Pro has become an essential asset in the visual effects and post-production workflows of some of Hollywood's biggest studios. See Mocha Pro in global hits including The Mandalorian, Stranger Things, Avengers: Endgame, and many more.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Mocha Pro - Annual Subscription for free!
The Academy Award-winning planar tracking toolset
Boris FX Mocha Pro brings world-renowned planar tracking, rotoscoping, object removal, and image stabilization capabilities, not to mention its groundbreaking PowerMesh technology. It comes as no surprise then that it was recognized with both Academy Award and Emmy acknowledgment for its contribution to the film & TV industry; from Oscar-nominated VFX films all the way down to small indie projects. Mocha Pro has become an essential asset in the visual effects and post-production workflows of some of Hollywood's biggest studios. See Mocha Pro in global hits including The Mandalorian, Stranger Things, Avengers: Endgame, and many more.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Mocha Pro - Perpetual License for free!
The Ultimate Visual Effects Package
With the Boris FX Suite, you can have ultimate creativity and cutting-edge technology at your fingertips. Get the best of award-winning tools such as Sapphire for visual effects, Mocha Pro for planar tracking and Optics to revolutionize rotoscoping - all accessible with one incredible annual price point! Unlock a world of possibilities with just $1,295 per year.
Boris FX Suite Includes:
• Continuum – The world’s most complete plugin toolkit
• CrumplePop – Easy to use, AI-drive audio restoration plugins
• Mocha Pro – Award-winning planar tracking & masking
• Optics – Cinematic effects for photos
• Sapphire – The essential visual effects suite
• Silhouette - Roto, Paint & Compositing
• SynthEyes – Fast 3D tracking and matching moving toolset
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Cinema 4D, Forger, Red Giant, Redshift, Universe, and ZBrush in One Bundle!
Introducing Maxon One – the ultimate subscription package for 3D artists and motion designers looking to bring their creative projects to life. With Maxon One, you gain instant access to an award-winning 3D animation tool with Cinema 4D as well as Red Giant Complete’s full collection of powerful tools for editing, VFX, and motion design. Plus, with ZBrush included in the bundle, you have the freedom to model sophisticated illustrations limited only by your imagination. Finally, the ultra-fast GPU renderer Redshift for Cinema 4D is also included. Now you can push the boundaries of what’s possible and take your creativity to a whole new level with a single all-encompassing package. Unlock the full potential of your creative brilliance with Maxon One!
3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software
Maxon Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering software solution. Its fast, powerful, flexible, and stable toolset make 3D workflows more accessible and efficient for design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, game development, and all types of visualization professionals. Cinema 4D produces stunning results, whether working on your own or in a team.
Cinema 4D 2024 provides unmatched speed and performance for the most sophisticated creative scenes. Rigid Body Simulations can now interact with all existing forces, pyro, cloth, and soft bodies. Pyro shines with a hot new feature that allows fire to be emitted from particles and matrices. And the new Vertex Normal tools offer artists unparalleled precision to perfect surfaces.
Redshift Now Available as Subscription
Redshift is the world’s first fully GPU-accelerated, biased renderer built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering in C4D. Tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and supports complex, advanced shading networks and texturing capabilities as required for production-quality rendering. Redshift has the features and uncompromising quality of a CPU renderer, but at GPU rendering speeds.
Get all the tools from Red Giant at one low price with Red Giant.
Maxon Red Giant is the leading provider of visual effects and motion graphics tools, offering innovative and powerful solutions for filmmakers, editors, motion designers, and visual effects artists. Red Giant tools empowers artists, filmmakers, and designers to bring their creative visions to life.
Get all the Red Giant tools for filmmaking and motion graphics. You’ll enjoy access to Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX, and Universe – each designed with innovative features that make it easy to craft eye-catching visuals!
The All-In-One Digital Sculpting Solution Designed for the Pursuit of Art
ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting/painting. With customizable tools that can shape, texture, and paint virtual clay in real time with instant feedback, you’ll have unprecedented access to an endless range of precise digital creations.
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]]>Happy Independence Day, America! Our annual fireworks article was originally published in July 2015, and we’ve updated the article annually with explosive new goodies. This year, we gave it a total overhaul!
Let’s be honest… fireworks on video are not usually too interesting. They lack the excitement and sensory stimulation of being there in person. Until smell-o-vision is a reality in your VR headset, you’ll have to light a match and imagine the smell of sulfur smoke.
We’ve found some visually breathtaking examples so when creating your digital fireworks, it’s important to look at examples to match the look for realism.
Learn about fireworks and pay close attention to the physics in this video from Veritasium.
I was in Montreal about 20 years ago and the city hosted a fireworks competition with different countries competing, including Japan. We saw displays from two countries but nothing like this!
A drone is an incredible way to film fireworks, I’d be afraid of my drone being hit! If you have a drone in the US, there is no law against filming fireworks. Watch a video from Ken Heron with tips: Drone INSIDE fireworks Legally and Safely | Plus audio Editing TIPS
Why start from scratch? Especially if you’re a video editor or 3D artist and don’t do this type of effect, we have some great options to add fireworks to your videos.
25 VFX Elements for Your Render Engine of Choice
The Pixel Lab VFX Elements: Fireworks has 25 incredibly realistic firework animations. They can be loaded into any render engine that supports VDBs such as Blender, Octane, Redshift, Arnold, Houdini, Cycles and many more. You can mix and match them too.
The Pixel Lab created assets to save you time and hassle. These are baked into alembic files or VDB files which you can drag and drop into almost any 3D application and you will have instant pyrotechnics!
100 beautiful smoke, spark, confetti and fire simulations
Pixel Lab Concert Pyro Bundle gives you all 4 Concert Pyro products, Concert Confetti, Sparks, Fire, and Smoke Bursts together, with a savings of 30%!
Fill your library with 100 beautiful smoke, spark, confetti and fire simulations so you’re ready for any project!
Drag & Drop, Professional Stock FX for your Composites.
The VFX Central Essential Pack includes: 4k Anamorphic Flares, 5k/6k Fire Explosions, 4k Digital Storm Effects & 1080P Digital Fireworks – Perfect for a huge celebration environment shots!
Fireworks can be created using a particle generator, taking time to get the physics right. To make things easier, multiple plug-ins are specifically for creating fireworks. That said, they don’t always look natural. One of the toughest things about creating fireworks is getting them to look realistic. They need glow, smoke, the proper physics, depth of field, etc. And, adding some sound effects can help your fireworks come to life!
Since many of our readers are After Effects users, that’s a great place to start. There have been so many tutorials about creating fireworks over the years.
Oliver Randorff explains how to make a fun animated firework rocket. I like the cell animation style he uses in his tutorials. Check out his YouTube Channel.
Avnish Parker shows you how to create many different types of fireworks directly in After Effects without the use of any third-party plug-ins.
Creativity for all.
Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best creative apps and services so you can make anything you can imagine, wherever you’re inspired.
Enjoy the entire collection of our creative desktop and mobile tools, like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, and more with Adobe Creative Cloud.
VFX BLEND shows you how to make realistic fireworks in DaVinci Resolve.
Over 300 new features, including HDR Grading, AI-based magic mask, improved editing, and much more!
DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post-production all in one software tool! Its elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy enough for new users, yet powerful for professionals. DaVinci Resolve lets you work faster and at a higher quality because you don’t have to learn multiple apps or switch software for different tasks. That means you can work with camera original quality images throughout the entire process. It’s like having your own post-production studio in a single app! Best of all, by learning DaVinci Resolve, you’re learning how to use the exact same tools used by Hollywood professionals!
Michael Szalapski from Maxon shows you how to make fast fireworks with Particular.
This one is from 2019.
Get all the tools from Red Giant at one low price with Red Giant.
Maxon Red Giant is the leading provider of visual effects and motion graphics tools, offering innovative and powerful solutions for filmmakers, editors, motion designers, and visual effects artists. Red Giant tools empowers artists, filmmakers, and designers to bring their creative visions to life.
Get all the Red Giant tools for filmmaking and motion graphics. You’ll enjoy access to Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX, and Universe – each designed with innovative features that make it easy to craft eye-catching visuals!
I did a webinar for Boris FX back in 2012. I didn’t write the tutorial, and it is a bit complex with a lot of manipulation of the settings, but the final fireworks looked nice and believable. (The fireworks portion starts at 18:00)
Download the free standalone version of the Particle Illusion tool now available! In addition, you can still get the premium filter here: Boris FX Particle Illusion Free.
Here’s another tutorial from Boris FX. This time, Paul Ezzy teaches you how to quickly create a fireworks display in Adobe After Effects to add to your hometown skyline. Simply swap out the image after you download the complimentary project files – template and presets included! You’ll create 4 different displays with BCC Particle Emitter 3D − from basic to explosive − that rival the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. Plus, learn how BCC Cartooner and BCC Pencil Sketch give you the freedom of using custom shapes.
The Swiss Army Knife of Plugins
Meeting tight turnarounds just got easier. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin collection delivers nearly 350 creative effects in 20 categories, 4000+ presets, built-in Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking, a Beat Reactor that drives VFX to music, and the FX Browser. Busy editors and artists rely on Continuum to get the job done.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Continuum Annual Subscription for free!
The Swiss Army Knife of Plugins
Meeting tight turnarounds just got easier. The post-production industry’s most complete plugin collection delivers nearly 350 creative effects in 20 categories, 4000+ presets, built-in Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking, a Beat Reactor that drives VFX to music, and the FX Browser. Busy editors and artists rely on Continuum to get the job done.
Learn MoreTry Boris FX Continuum Perpetual License for free!
Lukas Thorup makes fireworks with Cinema 4D and Redshift
3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software
Maxon Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering software solution. Its fast, powerful, flexible, and stable toolset make 3D workflows more accessible and efficient for design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, game development, and all types of visualization professionals. Cinema 4D produces stunning results, whether working on your own or in a team.
Cinema 4D 2024 provides unmatched speed and performance for the most sophisticated creative scenes. Rigid Body Simulations can now interact with all existing forces, pyro, cloth, and soft bodies. Pyro shines with a hot new feature that allows fire to be emitted from particles and matrices. And the new Vertex Normal tools offer artists unparalleled precision to perfect surfaces.
Explore how real-world fireworks are built to inform the design of our X-Particles simulations.
All INSYDIUM products in one collection
INSYDIUM Fused gives you the ultimate toolkit to create mesmerizing particle effects, realistic terrains, animate plants – and more! With this powerful collection of plugins and products at your disposal plus an array of assets just waiting for you to discover them, there’s no limit to what creative solutions can arise. Plus with technical support available any time should anything come up along your artistic journey – you’re guaranteed success in completing even the most complex projects easily.
The INSYDIUM Fused Annual Subscription provides the Fused license on an annual basis. The full collection is only available if your license has Maintenance or you have a Subscription.
INSYDIUM's collection of Plug-ins, Products, and Benefits
INSYDIUM Fused gives you the ultimate toolkit to create mesmerizing particle effects, realistic terrains, animate plants – and more! With this powerful collection of plugins and products at your disposal plus an array of assets just waiting for you to discover them, there’s no limit to what creative solutions can arise.
Plus with technical support available any time should anything come up along your artistic journey – you’re guaranteed success in completing even the most complex projects easily.
12 Months Maintenance for Fused Users
INSYDIUM Fused Annual Maintenance, existing users get 12 months of Technical Support and instant access to exciting new features for Fused.
If you purchase Fused perpetual, the first 12 months of Technical Support and Updates are included. With this in mind, to continue to receive Technical Support and Updates, you must purchase the INSYDIUM Fused Annual Maintenance.
This tutorial from PremiumBeat explains how to create unique effects, backgrounds, smoky atmospheres, and more by recording real fireworks in a variety of ways.
This freebie from idustrial revolution was created for New Year 2023. The plugin works in Final Cut Pro X and it’s perfect for your July 4th celebration videos.
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The “Black Hole” template allows you to easily and quickly create high-quality black hole animations in Adobe After Effects. Designed with customization in mind, this template includes a 3D black hole, complete with a curved 3D accretion disc, orbiting cloud matter, and warping of the stars behind the black hole. Simply customize their look with the easy-to-use controls, then animate your camera and render. The 360° star background gives you the freedom to create elaborate camera movements, and view the black hole from different angles. Also included are the comps for all seven animations from the main promo video, including an effect that imitates stars and matter being sucked down a 3D funnel.
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