Talk to Photoshop & Animation Industry Health Check | Motion Mondays

Photoshop’s upcoming agentic AI, a temperature check on the animation industry, and an easy way to create product animations.

This week, Discover Rive's powerful new Data Binding feature that connects UI elements to data without any coding knowledge. Get the scoop on Octane 2025.1's impressive updates with Silverwing's comprehensive breakdown, and check out Premiere Gal’s tutorial on easy product animations.

Also, ByteDance unveils OmniHuman, a lip-sync AI that creates realistic expressions from a single image, Howard Pinsky gives us a peek at the future where you can literally talk to Photoshop, and the Collision Awards report reveals an uptick in the demand for animation work.

Plus, we showcase stunning work from Tendril's IBM piece and Sehsucht's handcrafted animations for ZDF.

🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED

• School of Motion Team Training

• School of Motion All-Access

• Cinema 4D Basecamp

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

• Rive Data Binding

• Silverwing - Octane 2025.1 New Features

• Premiere Gal - Create Product Animations with Adobe PPro and Firefly

• ByteDance OmniHuman-1

• School of Motion All-Access is coming in one week

• Dash Bash Demo Duel

• Dash Bash tickets

• Creative Bloq - Talk to Adobe Photoshop

• Collision Awards - Animation & Motion Design Report

• Blender Auto Focus Camera addon

• Modular animation system for Unreal Engine

🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

• Tendril - IBM project

• Sehsucht - ZDF project

• Kensyouen_Y - Breaking Blender's 4th wall

• Heist - 2025 Motion Reel

• SOM Student of the Week - Robert-Pregardt-Paur

• Robert's Portfolio