The Ultimate Breath Effects

Here at FX Elements, we offer the most comprehensive selection of breath stock footage available anywhere. All elements are available in 4k ProRes, 4k EXR, and RAW R3D with resolutions up to 8k.

COLD BREATH
Our extensive selection of real live-action Cold Breath stock footage is one of our most popular categories of VFX stock footage. We started filming them back in 2011 and are still adding new clips to this day to this category which is so useful for compositors.

Our clips are shot live-action, which means they are ultra-real and can be seamlessly integrated into your scenes to enhance their realism. Plus, we worked hard to include high-quality alphas so our effects can easily be used within your workflow. These Cold Breath clips cover many situations: speaking slowly or fast in a cold environment, breathing strongly after an effort, yawning, coughing once or many times in a row, and even sneezing. With our comprehensive Cold Breath suite, you have the power to transform your scene and convey the feeling you are looking for. These effects are subtle, yes, but very powerful; they absolutely influence the viewer and help suspend his disbelief. Working on winter sequences, horror shots, cold chamber action scenes, ice skating drama, you name it, these Cold Breath VFX clips are the best tools to accomplish your vision.

Coughing Breath

Check out our new Coughing Breath FX Packs! Coughing Breath Packs 1 and 2 are available to download today.

Smoke Breath

In addition to our Cold Breath selection, we also feature Smoke Breath effects. We filmed them live-action directly facing the camera or from the side to accommodate the position of your characters, similar to our Cold Breath setup. These Smoke Breath VFX clips are perfect to add to your scenes where a character is smoking a cigarette, a pipe, or even vaping. We just added Smoke Breath – Pack 3 to our Smoke Breath section! It includes plenty of smoke puffs, is full of swirls, and behaves like real exhaled smoke (because it is!).

Free Breath VFX

We have made a large number of clips available for free. These are available 24/7 to download and test in your workflow or use in your personal and commercial projects.

All free stock footage is made available in 4k ProRes, 4k Open EXR, and RAW R3D in its native resolution of up to 8k resolution.

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