Dirty Glows in After Effects, a 1-click Grunge Tool, Giveaway Winners! | Motion Mondays

Instant Grunge, illuminating glows, fiery C4D projects, and CG robots. Plus the winners of our Metal Heart Giveaway!

This past week was packed with industry news and tools - From Brady Erickson's game-changing Photoshop plugin, to updates to both The Pixel Lab's Redshift Materials and Cyclops 3 from AEscripts+Plugins, to the release of Metal Heart, our own animated short film and behind the scenes tutorial. Also, dive into the state of CG with Poliigon’s 3D community survey, check out some amazing design and animation work from our industry, and geek out on Pantone’s Color Intelligence.

AND we’re announcing the winners of our Metal Heart $4,500 prize giveaway. Congrats to Mairéad Ryan and Nicolas Rakotoary!

🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED

• Animation Bootcamp

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

• AEReference - Resource for Motion Designers

• Metal Heart - SOM Short Film

• Metal Heart Contest Winners:some text

  • Mairéad Ryan

  • Nicolas Rakotoary

• The Pixel Lab Redshift pack with C4D Pyro Scenes

• Poliigon - State of CG

• Rive adds free unlimited files

• Spline adds real-time API, more features

• SOM Student of the Week - Brunno Santos

• Creative Bloq - Pantone Color Intelligence

• Cyclops 3 After Effects Tool

• Lottielab Interactivity

• Tendril’s F.02 Product Launch visuals

• Meta's VFusion - AI-Generated 3D Models

• James Issaks Olympic Motion Design

• Texture Labs Distressor - New Plugin for Photoshop