Does anyone know of any special effect[CGI] programs?

[hacks2]

anyone at all and hopefully they are free

[baksteen]

i doubt that they will be free

[Feather]

http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/3a34?=

scroll down the page to 3d software. and they are free

[StormNinja]

I guess you want to make animated characters and etc so the link provided will not be specifically what you want: however. the site may lead you to what you're searching for or help you learn how to write your own scripts to make animation happen.

http://www.tesol.net/scripts/

As requested it's a freebie.

[mountain_rage]

I am quite surprised no one mentioned Blender, an opensource 3d animation program. The short film Elephants Dream (http://www.elephantsdream.org/) was created using Blender.

Here's the website.
http://www.blender.org/

[hacks2]

not exactley what i am looking for what i mean is a lightning bold or a fire

[mountain_rage]

So you don't want a CGI program so much, you want a simple effects overlay software for video. Like you want to be able to add pregenerated fire or lightning to a video? As in you do not want to create the effect yourself, is this correct?

[hacks2]

yes I am looking for simple visual effects like rain and lightning

[mountain_rage]

Can't say I've ever come across a standalone effects program of that nature. I'd imagine their must be some sort of filter or option in Adobe Premier for it but I don't currently have it installed on my computer so I cannot check for you.