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Smoke, fire, explosions, lightning and abstract loops, ready to composite over your footage.
A thick column of billowing smoke rises from the bottom of the frame, curls, spreads and thins out as it drifts with the wind.
Low fog rolls across the bottom of the frame in parallax layers, thickening and thinning as it drifts past.
Layered flame tongues lick upward from a hot white core, flickering at their cool edges while stray licks break off the top.
A white flash blooms into a churning fireball that rises and cools into rolling black smoke while glowing debris arcs out.
Branching bolts crawl down from the sky at seeded moments, flicker through restrikes and light up the frame with every hit.
Crackling electric arcs crawl around the border of the frame in two strands, snapping between shapes as they race past each other.
Flames burn all the way around a circle, every tongue leaning outward from a hot inner rim that glows through the centre.
Thin ribbons of smoke curl up from a single point, fold around each other and soften into haze as they climb.
Rapid side flashes fire on a cadence you set, each shot a different seeded shape with a hot core and a lazy drift of smoke.
A dust puff kicks out of an impact point in the direction you set, spitting stone chips and settling into a slow haze.
A ring of dust surges outward across the ground from a landing point in perspective, kicking up grit before settling into haze.
Glowing cracks race outward across the ground from an impact point, fork as they spread and pulse with molten light.
Electric tendrils writhe from a glowing core out to the glass, drifting around the sphere while a cluster gathers at a touch point.
A sustained energy beam roars across the frame with a rippling edge, flowing streaks, a muzzle flare and a splash where it lands.
A high-voltage arc strikes between two rising rails, climbs and stretches as it rises, snaps at the top and re-strikes at the base.
A twisting funnel of dust spins up from the ground, its column swaying as bands of debris whip around the wall.
Flame tongues spiral up a narrow twisting funnel that leans and sways like a fire tornado tearing across a field.
A thrust flame roars down from a nozzle through pulsing shock diamonds while thick exhaust billows out across the ground.
A burning meteor streaks across the sky, shedding flame from a white-hot head and leaving a widening trail of smoke behind it.
A mid-air blast flashes and throws burning fragments outward on arcing paths, each one leaving a smoke trail that hangs in the sky.
Dense coloured smoke pours out of a ground vent, rolls outward and climbs in thick billows that mix two shades as they rise.
A pressurised jet of steam hisses out of a pipe, fans open, curls into turbulent eddies and lifts away as it dissolves.
A row of candle flames sway and flicker on their own rhythms, each wrapped in a soft warm halo that breathes with the flame.
A wide wall of fire burns along the bottom of the frame, rolling and surging upward to frame a title or a dramatic reveal.
Flames climb from a stack of crossed logs glowing at their hearts, licking and leaning while the fire breathes in a warm pool of light.
Rolling vortex rings of smoke rise one after another, widening and slowing until each one loosens and breaks apart into haze.
Banks of cloud rush toward the camera in depth, swelling as they approach and parting around the lens as you fly through them.
Raindrops bead across a window pane while heavier drops break loose and run down in stops and starts, leaving wet trails behind.
Ice crystals grow inward from every edge of the frame in branching six-fold patterns while a cold haze frosts over the border.
A lit fuse burns along a curving cord, spitting sparks and puffs of smoke and leaving a charred line behind it as it runs out.
A web of branching neon veins spreads across a dark surface while waves of light pulse outward along every branch.
Ribbons of glowing energy braid upward around a shared axis, crossing in bright knots and fading into the dark as they climb.
Layered clouds of glowing cosmic gas drift past each other in parallax over a field of softly twinkling stars.
Heavy storm clouds roll past in layers while lightning flickers inside them, lighting up one cell after another from within.
Coloured ink plumes drop into clear water, sink and billow outward, unfurling into soft curling clouds that mix as they fade.
Soft glowing smoke in two colours rises and folds across a dark frame, blending where the plumes cross in a calm abstract loop.
A glowing accretion disk swirls around a dark event horizon, its inner rings racing faster while light bends into an arch over the top.
A blazing star churns with glowing granules while flame licks its edge and prominences arc up from the surface and sink back.
A glowing wireframe landscape scrolls beneath the camera, mountains rising on both sides of a flat valley that runs to the horizon.
Cooling plates of crust drift slowly across molten lava, their seams glowing as hot spots swell and fade beneath them.
Rolling sheets of sandy dust sweep sideways across the frame in parallax layers, with fine grit streaking past in the wind.
A towering wall of dust rolls in from the horizon toward the camera, churning as it grows until it swallows the frame, then thins to a lingering haze.
Wind-driven snow tears across the frame as motion-blurred streaks in depth layers, while sheets of white haze gust through and briefly white out the view.
Hailstones streak down and hit an unseen ground plane in perspective, bouncing a few times and kicking up tiny chips of ice before they settle and fade.
Raindrops hit the ground across a perspective plane, each throwing up a tiny crown of droplets and a spreading splash ring, under faint falling rain streaks.
Rain lands on a puddle seen in perspective, each drop sending out a few overlapping elliptical rings that spread, catch a soft highlight and fade.
A distant storm line sits low on the horizon above dark land, its cloud bank lit from within by sheet flashes and the odd small bolt.
Grey shafts of distant rain hang below a low cloud base over rolling hills, slanting in the wind and drifting slowly across the landscape.
Rhythmic puffs of breath vapor are exhaled from a single point, billowing out in a short burst and dissipating quickly in the cold air, one breath every few seconds.
Tiny bright aircraft cross a blue sky, each leaving twin white contrails that merge, widen, drift and slowly fade behind it.
Rows of stylised ocean swells roll in from a hazy horizon in perspective, their crests catching foam and brief glints of light.
A swell rises out of the sea, curls its lip over into a hollow barrel and crashes down in a burst of white spray, flying droplets and spreading foam.
Streaky sheets of water pour over a rocky ledge and plunge down the frame, throwing up a billowing plume of white mist where they land.
Single drops fall onto still water, throw up a crown of droplets and a rebound jet, then spread concentric rings across the surface.
A column of water bursts out of the ground, surges to its peak, then collapses back as falling spray while clouds of steam drift away.
Thin-film rainbow bands swirl slowly across dark water, each ring traced by a fine bright interference edge that shifts through the spectrum.
Faceted rock chunks blast out of an impact point on ballistic arcs, bounce and settle on the ground while a dust cloud rolls outward.
A brick wall splits with spreading cracks, shudders, then breaks apart brick by brick, tumbling to the ground as a dust cloud rises.
Grit, pebbles and puffs of dust trickle down from cracks along the top edge in uneven bursts, as if from a damaged ceiling.
A slab of snow breaks loose and slides down the slope, shattering into a billowing white powder cloud that surges across the frame.
A log fire burns inside an arched stone fireplace, its flames lighting the inner walls and stonework while the ember bed glows and sparks drift up the flue.
Two torches in iron wall sconces burn on a dark stone wall, their flames leaning and flickering in a draft as thin smoke rises and warm light pools on the blocks.
Fires of different sizes burn across the ground in perspective, shrinking and dimming toward the horizon while dark smoke columns climb and drift with the wind.
A pressurised jet of flame blasts from a nozzle, billowing and rolling as it widens, then slows, curls upward and breaks into dark smoke.
A match swipes in and strikes: a spray of sparks and a sputtering sulfur flare with a puff of smoke, then it settles into a small steady flame with a blue base as the stick chars.
An emergency road flare lies burning with an intense red-pink sputtering flame, spitting sparks while pinkish smoke drifts off and a red light pool glows around it.
An impact flash erupts into layered energy rings with ragged, broken edges racing outward at different speeds, split by a chromatic fringe while shards of energy scatter.
Curved energy filaments spiral inward and stream into a dark elliptical void ringed by a crackling bright rim, while motes are pulled in and arcs leap off the edge.
A column of light drops from the sky and lands with a ground glow, motes rise inside it and scanning rings sweep up and down before the beam pinches shut in a bright flash.
Two severed cable ends with frayed copper strands spit bursts of jagged electric arcs across the gap, flashing bright while molten droplets fall and a thin smoke curls up.
An earth-like planet turns slowly in space, continents and ice caps sliding past the day-night terminator under a faster cloud layer and a glowing blue atmosphere.
A banded gas giant hangs in space inside wide tilted rings, its storms drifting with the spin while the camera slowly sways around it.
Faceted, cratered rocks tumble past at different depths, the near ones large and fast, the far ones small and hazy, all lit from one side over a starfield.
The dark moon slides across a blazing sun, the sky dims to reveal the streaming corona and pink prominences at totality, then a diamond-ring flash bursts as sunlight returns.
A comet glides over the stars with a glowing coma, a straight bluish ion tail streaming in knots and a broad curved dust tail shedding fine grains.
A star swells and flares in a blinding flash, then a glowing shell of gas tears outward behind a bright shock ring and settles into a filamentary nebula remnant.
A spinning neutron star sweeps two opposite lighthouse beams around a tilted axis, its magnetic field loops turning with it and a flash pulsing out each time a beam faces you.
A long-exposure night sky: stars start as points and stretch into concentric arcs around the celestial pole above a dark ridge of hills and pines.
A volcano erupts against a dusk sky: a dark ash column billows up from the glowing crater, lava bombs arc out and molten streams creep down the flanks.
A glossy black ferrofluid blob pulses on a reflective surface, its sharp magnetic spikes rising and falling in a ripple from the centre with bright specular streaks.
Thousands of tiny dark birds flock as one cloud that stretches, folds and turns edge-on in shifting dark bands. Shown over a dusk tone; switch to transparent to drop the birds over your own sky.
Translucent bioluminescent jellyfish pulse their bells and surge slowly upward through the deep, trailing wavy tentacles and glowing softly with each beat.
Hundreds of silver fish circle into a rotating bait ball that breathes in and out, flashing as their flanks catch the light from the surface.
A full night beach scene: dark waves roll in under the stars and their foam edge glows electric blue as it spreads up the sand, then retreats and fades.
A full underwater scene: layered kelp fronds sway in the current, nearer stalks darker and larger, under soft light shafts and drifting particles.
A full underwater view looking up at the rippling surface: a bright window of refracted sky wobbles overhead, light bands ripple across the water and faint rays fan down into the blue.
Deep-sea darkness where clumps of organic marine snow drift slowly down in depth layers, broken by soft bioluminescent flashes and tiny glowing creatures leaving faint trails.
A top-down whirlpool: spiral arms of white foam wind inward, turning faster as they near the dark centre, over a glossy swirling water surface.
A full top-down drone view of a beach: turquoise waves roll in, lacy white foam spreads across the wet sand, then retreats and leaves a fading sheen.
A full golden-hour meadow scene: thousands of grass blades and seed heads bend as gusts of wind travel across the field, backlit by a low sun with drifting pollen.
A white-hot stream of molten metal pours from a tilted crucible into an ingot mould, throwing sparks while a cooling crust drifts across the glowing pool.
A full-frame sea of viscous liquid gold rolls in slow, heavy waves, with bright specular highlights sliding over every crest. The gold surface is the whole scene.
Golden honey sags from the top edge in long glossy strands that stretch, thin to a neck and snap, dropping beads while the strands spring back.
Mirror-bright beads of liquid mercury roll across a surface, pull into each other, merge into one pool and split apart again, each reflecting a bright sky and dark horizon.
A slab of clear, cracked ice hangs along the top edge and melts: water beads slide down its face, swell into drops at the tips and fall away.
Rust blooms open across a brushed steel plate from scattered points, darkening into crusty cores with pitting, flaking edges and runoff stains. The steel plate is the whole scene.
Dry, cracked earth shakes as a jagged fault races toward the camera, then the ground tears open: slabs slide apart and sink, dust bursts up and debris tumbles into the gap. The background color is the sky.
Full-frame satin cloth ripples in soft diagonal folds while bright sheen bands glide across every crease. The fabric fills the whole scene.
Frosted glass blobs drift over a vivid color gradient, gently merging and parting while their bright rims and magnified insides bend the colors behind them. The gradient is part of the scene.
Glowing fungal threads creep out of seed points through dark soil, curling and branching into a living web, then bright nutrient pulses travel along the strands. The soil is part of the scene.
A long-exposure night road curves toward a lit skyline: white headlight streams flow toward you in one carriageway while red taillights stream away in the other, under amber street lamps. The city scene is drawn in full.
Hundreds of glowing drones lift off a dark field, stand up into a grid over a city skyline, then glide into a star, a heart, a turning globe and a spinning spiral before scattering into the night. The night scene is drawn in full.
Searchlight beams rise from behind a night skyline, sweeping and crossing through hazy air and lighting up the low clouds where they hit, like a red-carpet premiere. The night scene is drawn in full.
A sky timelapse from afternoon to night: clouds drift as the sun sinks through golden hour into a red sunset, the dusk afterglow fades, town lights switch on along the hills and the stars come out. The whole sky and landscape are drawn.
As the rain thins and sunlight breaks onto the hills, a primary rainbow with faint supernumerary bands fades in against a dark storm sky, followed by a fainter reversed secondary bow with the darker band between them. The sky, rain and hills are drawn as a full scene.
A low winter sun glares through icy haze inside a 22-degree halo ring, flanked by two rainbow-edged sundogs and crowned by an upper tangent arc, while diamond-dust crystals glint over a snowy tree line. The sky and landscape are drawn as a full scene.
A full moon climbs out of a forested horizon, glowing orange low in the sky, then the earth's shadow sweeps across its face and turns it a deep copper red while its halo reddens and more stars appear. The night landscape is drawn as a full scene.
A still lake at first light: banks of pink-white mist drift across the water at different depths, pine-lined shores and their mirrored reflections sit in soft dawn colour, and faint ripples shimmer under the rising glow. The whole lake scene is drawn.
The Milky Way arches over a dark mountain range: a dense river of stars with a warm glowing core, dark dust lanes and faint coloured clouds, drifting slowly overhead while stars twinkle and the odd meteor flashes past. The night landscape is drawn as a full scene.
A sea of clouds flows slowly through a mountain range at sunrise: layered billows drift at different speeds around the peaks, their tops lit warm by a low sun while the far ridges fade into haze. The whole mountain scene is drawn.
A smooth force-field bubble swells out of a flash on the ground, settles into a shimmering dome with a bright fresnel rim and drifting interference bands, and ripples where incoming shots strike it.
A distant flash lights the horizon, then a fireball rises into a rolling toroidal cap on a column of smoke, sheds a brief condensation ring and cools from orange to grey while a dust skirt spreads along the ground.
A cone of light pours down from a glowing source overhead while rocks, dust and sparks spiral upward inside it and bright rings pulse up the beam.
A full-height reactor scene: plasma streams up a glass column held by metal clamps, bright energy rings pulse upward and the central core throbs with a glowing rim on a dark background.
Thousands of iron filings on a plate line up along the curved field lines around a bar magnet, twitching and glinting as the field strength swells and eases.
A particle-physics cloud chamber: thick straight alpha tracks, thin curling electron spirals and long cosmic-ray streaks condense out of drifting vapour at random, then spread and fade.
A full night scene: glowing paper sky lanterns rise from behind dark hills and drift on the breeze into a starry sky, their flames flickering warmly as they shrink into the distance.
Backlit dandelion seeds float across the frame on a gentle breeze, their fine parachute filaments glowing as they bob and tumble, with near seeds softly out of focus.
A dense insect swarm surges across the frame as a churning, billowing cloud of thousands of fluttering specks, while a few locusts fly close past the camera with blurred, beating wings.
A full-frame wildfire sky: a dim red sun glows through drifting layers of orange-brown smoke above a hazy ridge and tree line, while ash flakes and stray embers float past.
Use a generated VFX element on a transparent or black background and composite it over your shot. Because the element is procedural, you set its colour, density, direction and timing before export, so the smoke drifts the way your scene needs and the fire matches your grade instead of fighting it.
Stock VFX packs give you one take of a fire or an explosion. If it burns the wrong way, sits in the wrong corner or comes in a colour your grade cannot rescue, you are stuck masking and keying around it. Generating the element instead lets you shape it to the shot: move the source, change the wind, slow the plume, or pick a new seed until the timing lands on your cut.
Read the full guide: VFX overlays: smoke, fire and lightning you can recolour120 editable presets, including Smoke Plume Rise, Ground Fog Roll, Fire Column Loop, Fireball Explosion, Lightning Storm Strikes and Electric Edge Crawl. Every one opens in the browser editor, where you change colors, timing and any text before you download.
90 of the 120 loop seamlessly, including Smoke Plume Rise, Ground Fog Roll, Fire Column Loop, Lightning Storm Strikes, Electric Edge Crawl and Ring of Fire. The rest play once from start to finish.
MP4 for any editor or platform, WebM with a transparent background for the web, and a PNG sequence with alpha for Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and Figma. Every preset exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 from 720p up to 8K, with a commercial license in your name.
Editing and previewing are free. You only spend a credit when the finished file lands on your machine.
