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We’ve reviewed some of Rampant Design Tools products before on Motion Design Love here

But since then the guys over at Rampant have gone from strength to strength and expanded their product lineup even further from a few products to numerous products that now cover areas from After Effects templates, stock footage, textures and photos and sound effects and music.

Before we take a closer look at some of their products, it’s worth telling you a little about Rampant Design Tools.

Rampant was started by Sean Mullen a number of years ago, Sean has multiple credits to his name and over the years has created vfx elements for network tv shows and feature films. So he knows what the job of an editor and motion graphics artist is like.

Since then Sean has been joined at rampant by some other great people in the business such as Chris “Ace” Gates, Perry “All Right!” Jenkins , Casey “Sorry About Your Face” Faris and Alan “A-Ball” Pfeil. All these guys have work in the business day in day out, so you can be sure that the products they’ve helped to create will be useful in real projects and on a day to day basis.  If you want to find out more about the guys themselves then go check out there about about page on the Rampant Design Tools website.

Last time i reviewed their products they were great for the motion graphics artist and editors and since then they’ve improved!  The elements have been featured on high profile programmes such as America’s Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, Criminal Minds.

Now we’ve had a brief introduction to Rampant themselves, let’s take a look at some of their products.

Rampant FilmFx

The first product we’re going to look at is Rampant FilmFx. FimFx is a collection of light leaks,  flashes, aberrations, vignettes and scratches so you can stylise your footage to look more “film like” once you’ve done your colour corrections.  Want a quick preview of them, then check out the video below.

Rampant was kind enough to give me a review copy of FilmFx and allow me to play around with and use it one some projects. Once i’d played around with them for a bit i knew they brilliant and i’ll probably use some elements of most projects i do.  These kind of looks and effects are fairly popular at the moment so it’s likely that if your clients aren’t already asking for them, then they probably will be soon!  The other great things  about all these is that they’re in Full HD in Apples ProRes 422(HQ) codec so they’re high quality for use in your HD projects.

If you want to take a look at some real videos and projects that have used these then check out the samples below.

If you want to find out more or download Rampant FilmFX then check it out on their website.

SmokeFX

The next product i got chance to try is another new product since the last review, this time i got to play with SmokeFX.  First of all, these things are huge! by huge i mean that the quicktime files are 3k resolution, which means it’s great for full HD, (there’s even a bit of room to play with if you use them in HD compositions.)

I think these are ideal for motion graphics artists and vfx artist, you can use them in your graphics when you explode things and use them in your films to simulate smoking buildings etc….

If you want to find out more or download Rampant SmokeFX then check it out on their website.

Check out a promo video below for SmokeFX.

Rampant GunFX™

If you’re using SmokeFX it’s probably a good idea to get GunFX too, these also come at 3K resolution and are ideal for things like action movies. You get a series of Muzzle flashes which have all been matted so it’s really easy to add them to projects, no spending ages masking and keying things out!

The other thing i like about these is that all the elements have been shot for real, not simulated in a programme. As with the other products they do, all their products are both mac and pc compatible and will work in most NLE’s.

If you want to find out more or download Rampant GunFX then check it out on their website.