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One-Click Liquid Glass in After Effects & Hundreds of Walk Cycles | Motion Mondays
After Effects gets that Apple liquid look, Cartwheel adds hundreds of walk cycles to their mocap library and Animation Composer gets an upgrade.
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After Effects gets that Apple liquid look, Cartwheel adds hundreds of walk cycles to their mocap library and Animation Composer gets an upgrade.
This week, Animation Composer for After Effects dropped version 4 with faster previews and better keyframe tools, while a new plugin called AE GPT brings ChatGPT directly into AE to help with expressions and troubleshooting. Production Crate is jumping on the liquid glass trend with a one-click plugin that recreates Apple's new iOS aesthetic without needing 20+ effects.
We're also covering Cartwheel's massive motion capture library update, a new 3D asset manager, and some absolutely stunning creative work including BBC's hand-sculpted claymation for UEFA Women's Euro 2025. Plus we've got School of Motion course updates, Mocha Pro's new machine learning features, and our student spotlight on Mau Bonilla's incredible 3D work.
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Adobe's Major Partnership Announced & Blender Gets New Leadership | Motion Mondays
Adobe builds a future with Runway, Blender has a changing of the guard, and Tencent introduces an AI retopology tool that looks like the real deal.
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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.
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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.