ActionVFX produces high-quality stock VFX footage, used in compositing software such as After Effects, Nuke, and Fusion. The assets are shot practically, designed for professional use in feature, TV, and game pipelines.

ActionVFX has made its Flamethrowers effects pack available as a free download until 13 January 2026. The collection includes 30 practical flamethrower clips shot for visual effects and motion graphics use. The footage is available under a commercial-use licence.

Real fire, real footage

The clips were filmed with a RED Gemini 35K camera at 96 fps, ensuring clean motion and strong exposure detail. The pack includes 5K RED R3D masters and pre-keyed 12-bit ProRes 4444 versions in 2K and 4K resolutions. These can be imported directly into any compositor that supports ProRes with alpha channels, such as After Effects, Nuke, Fusion, or Premiere Pro.

Shot variety and usability

The set features multiple camera angles, including side views and first-person perspectives. Each shot has been keyed and delivered with transparency, reducing setup time for artists who need instant, production-ready fire elements. The keyed clips are intended for drag-and-drop compositing without the need for manual rotoscoping or colour separation.

Short-lived offer

The flamethrower pack is free to download until 13 January 2026 via the ActionVFX website (Registration required). After that date, standard pricing will apply. The company also maintains a growing library of other free practical VFX elements, including fire, smoke, dust, snow, and sparks.

In production context

As with all VFX assets, users are advised to test the footage before deployment in active production environments. Proper grading and compositing are essential to match lighting and motion in live-action plates.

// https://www.actionvfx.com/collections/flamethrowers-stock-footage/

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Epic Games has made another large-scale Unreal Engine environment available for free download. The Abandoned Cathedral pack by creator RagTarock is part of this month’s free content on Fab, Epic’s online marketplace for 3D assets. It remains free until 21 October 2025.

The set includes 210 modular meshes designed to build a derelict cathedral and its surroundings, with support for Unreal Engine 5.3 and newer. The collection is targeted at real-time artists developing games, cinematic sequences, or VFX environments.

Over 200 Assets, All Modular

The Abandoned Cathedral Environment comprises over 170 unique meshes covering architectural components, interior furniture, and exterior vegetation. Every model is optimised for game use, with collision data generated automatically. According to the Fab listing, the assets are game-ready, high-quality, and built with a focus on detail. They ship with a finished demo map, pre-lit using Lumen, Unreal Engine’s real-time global illumination system.

Technical Breakdown

The pack features five master materials and 79 material instances, along with 249 textures at a maximum resolution of 4,096 x 4,096 pixels. Poly count ranges from 8 to 3,370,000 triangles, depending on the asset. No Level of Detail (LOD) models are included. The asset supports both Nanite and Lumen, Epic’s real-time geometry and lighting systems. Lumen is enabled by default. The pack runs on Windows and is compatible with Unreal Engine versions 5.3 through 5.6. Distribution is via Fab as a standard asset package, last updated on 23 September 2025.

Licensing and Compatibility

As stated under the Fab Standard License, users may integrate the assets into any engine or tool, including commercial projects, within the restrictions outlined in the Fab EULA. The Abandoned Cathedral pack will revert to paid status after 21 October 2025, at which point the free offer expires.

Practical Note

Production teams should test the materials, Nanite settings, and Lumen performance in their own pipeline before deployment. Bous points, if you mash this Asset collection with the Washington DC collection from last week into a postapocalyptic game.

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3D artist Oleg Ushenok has released a free 330‑piece kitbash asset pack aimed at constructing post‑apocalyptic industrial environments. The assets come in FBX format with full PBR textures—colour, metalness, roughness, opacity, emissive and normal maps—and are fully licensed for commercial use.

Industrial decay in every piece

Included assets represent a grimy industrial shantytown aesthetic. Users will find modular metal gantries, stairs, walkways, corrugated iron roofs, solar panels and varied mechanical elements. There are also set‑dressing props like dumpsters, gas cylinders and other mid‑sized objects, totalling 330 discrete assets.

Get it HERE

Compatible with major pipelines

Assets are provided in FBX format and include single texture sheet setups (medium‑poly, single‑sheet) to simplify import workflows into modern DCC apps or game engines. Compatibility covers 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, Unity and Unreal Engine.

A taste of the full commercial pack

This free kit represents a subset of a much larger commercial product—the Post Apocalypse Survivor Environment pack—with over 800 props and 44 distinct structures. Ushenok notes the original designs were for concept art and background builds, though some have evolved to foreground‑ready detail.

License and usage

The free FBX sample is released under Fab Standard license terms, which allow use in any engine or tool (including for commercial projects), subject to the Fab EULA.

Citations
// 330 free FBX assets with PBR textures for post‑apocalyptic industrial environments
// Get 330 free kitbash assets for post‑apocalyptic environments

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Leartes Studios on Fab.com dropped some incredibly precise, plug-and-play modular workshop assets for Unreal Engine. If you love rapid-fire VFX, razor-sharp modelling, and lighting that makes pixels pop, this free bundle of 150 curated assets is about to become your new best friend.

Modular Mastery on the Fly

Every asset in this collection is engineered for seamless integration. Think of it as the ultimate toolkit for advanced CGI construction—whether you’re animating, rigging, or diving into complex shading routines. Forget cumbersome setups; these assets excel in delivering a stable, real-time rendering performance that’s as reliable as it is sleek.

Plug-and-Play Precision

Thanks to their modular design, these components fall into place with little fuss, making your workflow smoother than a perfectly rendered gradient. And for those who appreciate a bit more depth, check out this nifty listing on FAB.com which showcases a similar level of technical prowess and design finesse.

Caution: Test Before Production

While the assets are free and thoroughly engineered, remember that every innovation should be verified in your unique production environment before going full-throttle. A quick compatibility check goes a long way in ensuring that the stability and reliability you count on remain intact during those high-stakes production days.

Technical details

Features:

• 157 Unique Meshes
• Attention to Detail / AAA Quality
• All Building Assets are Modular
• Controllable parameters in Material Instances
• High Quality Assets
• Game ready/Optimized
• Unique Concepts of Assets
• High Attention to Details

Texture Size: 4096 for detailed Assets, 2048 for Mid sized Assets, & 1024 for small assets

Collision: Yes, Automatically Generated

LODs: Yes, 3 LODs for complex assets

Number of Meshes: 157 Unique Meshes

Number of Materials and Material Instances: 78

Number of Textures: 91

Supported Development Platforms: All Platforms

Supported Development Versions: Unreal Engine 4.27+ , UE5 , 5.1 , 5.2 , 5.3 , 5.4 , 5.5+

Compatibility

Supported Unreal Engine Versions

4.27 and 5.0 – 5.5

Supported Target Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, Oculus, PS4, SteamVR / HTC Vive, Win32, Xbox One, Windows, Linux, iOS, HTML5, HoloLens 2, Gear VR, Android

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VFX artist Rob Dickinson has unveiled Mesh Cleaner for Blender, a nifty free add-on designed to tackle those pesky artifacts that often plague 3D models. Whether you’re dealing with 3D scans or prepping models for animation, rendering, or even 3D printing, this tool aims to make your life a tad easier.

A One-Stop Shop for Geometry Cleanup

Mesh Cleaner consolidates Blender’s essential geometry-cleaning tools into a single, user-friendly panel. With just one click, you can:

• Remove double vertices: Say goodbye to those unwanted duplicates that mess up your mesh.
• Eliminate loose geometry: Clean up stray elements that shouldn’t be there.
• Fill holes: Automatically detect and patch up gaps in your mesh.
• Convert triangles to quads: Transform those tricky triangles into quads, making your model more animation-friendly.

Compatibility and Cost

Good news for Blender enthusiasts: Mesh Cleaner is compatible with Blender 4.3 and is available as a free download. You can grab it from Gumroad. While it’s free, consider tossing a few coins Rob’s way if you find it useful—after all, even digital wizards need to pay the bills. As with any new tool, it’s prudent to test Mesh Cleaner on your models before integrating it into critical projects. Ensure it meshes well with your workflow to avoid any unexpected hiccups.

In Conclusion

For those in the 3D production trenches, Mesh Cleaner offers a straightforward solution to common modeling headaches. By streamlining the cleanup process, it lets artists focus more on creativity and less on troubleshooting. So, why not give it a whirl? Your meshes might just thank you.

Links: Download from Gumroad

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