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A FREE Physics Plugin for AE + Blender 5.2 Drops | Motion Mondays
This week: Jake Bartlett brings keyframe-free animation to Premiere Pro with his new Motion State plugin, Blender 5.2 ships as a major stable release with long-term support, and MatterAE brings real-time physics simulation to After Effects.
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Motion State allows editors to define state-based interpolations with built-in spring and bounce curves directly on the timeline, bypassing After Effects for quick animation tasks. Meanwhile, the new Blender update focuses on stability for studios while still packaging experimental physics inside Geometry Nodes and an overhauled screen-space ray tracing system for Eevee. On the motion capture side, Rokoko Vision 3.0 rebuilds its AI solver to democratize video-to-motion capture through a web platform, offering a high-value alternative to physical mocap suits.
Also, percentage-based guides are added in After Effects, a new subscription-free tool brand called Keyframe or Die releases its first utility Death Rays, and Framerate is removing its upload paywall for free users. We also look at the rapid feature releases of the node-based image editor ArcBrush, the mesh-splitting automation in Tripo Segmentation, and highlights from designers Kaho Yoshida, Juanvi Rico, and Already Been Chewed, along with student Amanda Jessup. Show notes and links are below!
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Blender Gets Serious About Physics + a Motion Designer Built His Own App | Motion Mondays
A motion designer at Shopify built a whole new mograph app from scratch, and Blender is having a big week for physics simulations.
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The Viral Formula Unlocked + After Effects Plugin of the Year? | Motion Mondays
A long-hidden After Effects stylization extension comes to light, Epic (barely) teases Unreal Engine 6, and a developer just made all of his plugins free.
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Redshift Solves Repeating Textures + Free C4D Plugin | Motion Mondays
Redshift solves the repeating texture problem for good, Unreal 5.8 lands in preview with a list of quality-of-life fixes, and we just launched our first C4D plug-in, and it's free!