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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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This week: NeuronFX built Mograph Effector 2.0, basically bringing Cinema 4D's cloner and effector workflow into After Effects. Citron is a real dockable graph editor from a 25 year animator who gave up waiting for Adobe to fix it. Neill Blomkamp launched Barley Studios with Nightborne, a fully AI generated short film he directed himself.
There's also a free keyframe plugin for Cinema 4D, a massive stadium asset kit from Kitbash3D, a real time ocean system and a lens flare plugin for Unreal, a trio of rebuilt After Effects tools from Tack Studio, a cheap fast grain plugin, and Mt. Mograph's 80 tool suite for After Effects. Plus some great Blender work making the rounds, and a student spotlight on Steph Chen, who used Illustration For Motion to finally learn the fine art fundamentals she always felt she'd missed. Show notes and links below!
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Learn the real-time, broadcast-focused workflows that help motion designers put Unreal to work in their own practice.
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Did you know?
School of Motion has two FREE courses!
Path to Mograph is an in-depth look at a career as a Motion Designer, aimed at students who are ready to start their mograph journey.
Level Up is for motion designers who've already gotten started, but need to figure out the next step in their career.
If you decide to take the plunge into All-Access, then you'll also get access to our Jobs Board, as well as monthly livestreams and workshops with industry experts!
All that on top of joining our amazing SOM Community, and access to ALL of our courses, with unlimited (real human!) coursework critiques!
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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.
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Blender's Photoshop Compositing + a New After Effects Cloner Tool | Motion Mondays
This week we're diving into Blender 5.0's official beta release with all those mograph-style geometry node presets everyone's been waiting for, plus a free compositing toolset called Easy Photorealism that brings Photoshop-like controls right into Blender's compositor.
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Plugins for ALL + Maxon Doubles Down on Autograph | Motion Mondays
Maxon made Autograph free for entire studios this week, and there are more plugins dropping than we know what to do with.