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MEGAKRUNCH press kit
Plugins that wreck footage on purpose
Five native plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro: pixel, dither, glitch, CRT, and displacement.
press-kit.zip, 155 MB
The short version
In one line
MEGAKRUNCH makes plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro that wreck footage on purpose.
In one paragraph
MEGAKRUNCH is a one-person plugin company that started in New York in 2020. Its five native plugins for After Effects and Premiere Pro (Pixel_Encoder, Dither Decay, Glitch Control, CRT Converter, and Hacksaw) each break the image a different way: into pattern tiles, dithered pixels, glitch slices, a CRT screen, or random displacement. Every plugin is a one-time purchase with free updates, sold at megakrunch.com and on aescripts.
Latest
The plugins
Pixel_Encoder
Rebuilds footage as a grid of pattern tiles driven by its brightness, somewhere between ASCII art and a hacked surveillance feed. The first MEGAKRUNCH plugin, inspired by Watch Dogs 2.
Dither Decay
Crushes footage through eight classic dithering algorithms, Floyd-Steinberg, Bayer, and Atkinson among them, into lo-fi pixel art in 11 built-in palettes or your own.
Glitch Control
Four glitch modules (RGB Controls, Displacement, Stretch, and Color Cycle) that work alone or stacked, so the damage lands exactly where you want it.
CRT Converter
Turns clean pixels into a CRT screen, layer by layer: phosphor pattern, scanline gaps, glow, curved glass, and vignette, each with its own off switch.
Hacksaw
Randomly generated displacement that tears the frame into strips. Change the seed for a new cut, and let the built-in animation engine scan it across the image.
All five run in After Effects and Premiere Pro on macOS and Windows. Pixel_Encoder, Dither Decay, Glitch Control, and Hacksaw are also on aescripts at the same price.
“Pixel_Encoder turns video into pixelated low-fi goodness”
The story
MEGAKRUNCH began in New York in 2020, made alone in a small apartment during the quarantine. The first plugin started as an After Effects project chasing the hacking visuals of the game Watch Dogs 2.
Turning it into a real plugin meant learning C++ from scratch through Harvard's free CS50 course. The result, Pixel_Encoder, sold the day its first ad went up. By 2021 there were five plugins, each a different way to break an image on purpose.
The same one person still designs, codes, sells, and supports every one of them, and tunes each one by eye.
Review licenses
Making a video or writing about MEGAKRUNCH? Email me a link to your work and the plugin you want, and I'll send a full license for free. No script. Say what you actually think.
Already in the aescripts affiliate program? Pixel_Encoder, Dither Decay, Glitch Control, and Hacksaw can all go through your link.
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press-kit.zip, 155 MBLogos, plus product images, stills, and clips for every plugin
Free to use in coverage of MEGAKRUNCH. Spell it MEGAKRUNCH, one word in caps, and keep the underscore in Pixel_Encoder. Trailers are on the MEGAKRUNCH YouTube channel.
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