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Duolingo BUYS Animade + Your Phone Is an After Effects Camera | Motion Mondays
Duolingo acquires Animade, Phone Cam Controller turns your phone into a virtual After Effects camera, and Dan George Hill shows why everydays still work.
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Animade becomes Duolingo's third studio acquisition after Gunner and Hobbes, which says a lot about how seriously the company treats motion inside its products. Dan George Hill's 365-poster challenge shows how visible practice and sharing process can lead to real opportunities, while also revealing what happens when productivity gets tangled up with self-worth. Motionist.Studio released Phone Cam Controller for After Effects and Blender, which turns your phone into a virtual camera so you can get more lifelike movement without keyframing the whole thing.
Also: OTOY's TripoSplat turns one image into a detailed Gaussian splat in about five minutes, and yes, the test involved a deeply unpleasant 1970s couch. Better Gradients gives After Effects a more thoughtful gradient workflow, Hi3D keeps pushing image-to-3D fidelity, and Hyperion 2 turns SDR footage into HDR for more finishing latitude. Greyscalegorilla makes the case for hybrid Mac and PC workflows. Plus, Buff and several other artists deliver the visual reset, Richard Kizlo tackles the kitchen sink in VFX for Motion, and Half Rez and In Motion London provide two excellent excuses to meet another human in real life.
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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Cinema 4D's Mograph Tools Just Landed in After Effects | Motion Mondays
Cinema 4D's Mograph toolset just showed up inside After Effects, a real graph editor finally landed for AE animators, and the director who made District 9 used AI to generate an entire short film himself.
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After Effects Killed Roto Brush + Unreal 5.8 Is Out | Motion Mondays
After Effects replaces Roto Brush with AI masking, Unreal Engine 5.8 ships with true 3D terrain sculpting and an experimental vibe-coding plugin, and Epic shares their AI concept pipeline to very mixed reactions.
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After Effects Kills FX Console & Junior Artists Feel the Pinch | Motion Mondays
Adobe just quietly started eating its own plugin ecosystem, a Japanese fashion company handed Blender a Houdini-grade cloth solver for free, and there's a talent gap in this industry that's been building for a decade.