A fractal noise frenzy, some favorites join the public domain, and Phish goes high tech at the Las Vegas Sphere.
Happy New Year! This week Jake Bartlett drops an essential After Effects tutorial on creating grunge textures with fractal noise (plus a free generator script). Plus Google's new VO2 AI video model is turning heads - and might actually be useful for motion designers.
Also, Moment Factory reveals how they created mind-bending real-time visuals for Phish at the Sphere using Unreal Engine, compressing an entire show's worth of content into just 40GB.
Plus: a treasure trove of newly-public domain artwork from Magritte, Dali, and Kandinsky; Procreate's exciting 2025 roadmap; Ed Catmull joins an AI startup; and a new AI-powered 3D modeling tool that might save you some time.
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Our Winter 2025 session started today, but there is still time to join! Don’t miss the chance to kick off 2025 right and learn some stuff that will help you grow your career this year: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/courses
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
- Jake In Motion - Grunge Tutorial
- Fractal Noise Generator
- Eric Hunly - Twitter Thread on Public Domain art
- NYPL Digital Collections
- School of Motion End of Year Podcast
- Lottielab Interactive Editor
- Get 6 Months of Adobe Substance and Modeler FREE
- Google Veo
- Spline adds Shape Blend
- Procreate's year-end update
- Odyssey - General World Models
- How I built Forever Land... using Sora + ChatGPT
- Phish + Las Vegas Sphere - realtime visuals
- Motion.Ed - UI Animation Education
- Instant3D
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