GENIUS After Effects 3D Shader Hack & VFX Get Weird at the Superbowl | Motion Mondays

Wireframes in After Effects, VFX make things uncomfortably literal, and Rive gets blurs!

Motion designers get a new way to waste time with Keyframes.fun, featuring addictive color-matching games and frame rate rankings to settle those heated animator debates. Rive unveils an entirely new way to handle blurs with their vector feathering tech that's got UI designers drooling

Also a crafty new After Effects tutorial shows how to create 3D wireframes without leaving the app, and the Academy considers requiring AI disclosure for Oscar submissions as more films embrace AI-enhanced VFX.

Plus, a cautionary tale about claiming credit for work you didn't do (spoiler: don't), Blender gets native NPR rendering thanks to Dillon Gu Studios, and Element Supply drops a free plugin that makes clean plates a breeze.

We've also got killer work from Coliseum using Templater automation, Johan Borgstrom's mind-bending Lego car in Unreal Engine, and a roundup of this year's weirdest Super Bowl spots.

🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED

• NEW - Blender for 3D Artists

• School of Motion Team Training

• Explainer Camp

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

• Keyframes.fun - Minigames for Motion Designers

• Moglyph FX 4 Plugin for After Effects

• Introducing the New MoGraph.com

• Variety - Article on Oscars and AI Disclosure

• Revise - Machine-Learning technology for VFX

• Professor Goo - How we made our first 3D Anime test

• Free AE Plugin - Quick Cover

• Mograph Mindset - Text Style Expressions in After Effects 2025

• Mograph Mindset - After Effects Engineer Answers Questions

• Rive adds Blurs/Vector Feathering

• Eran Stern - Make 3D Wireframes in After Effects

🏈 SUPERBOWL VFX - IT GOT WEIRD

• Mountain Dew - Seal

• Skechers - Martha Stewart

• Coors Light - Sloths

🤖 AI ROUNDUP

• Pika Additions

• Topaz Labs' Project Starlight

• Adobe Firefly Video Model is Here

🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

• Colosseum Studio's Templater project

• Johan Borgstrom's Lego Car

• David J. Beal - C4D Basecamp project and beyond

• Builder's Club - OpenAI Superbowl ad

• Sebastian Pfeiffer's Portfolio

• SOM Student of the Week - Kim Godfrey