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25% Off After Effects Plugins, Midjourney’s BIG Problem & Blender 4.5 is CRAZY Fast | Motion Mondays
Blender gets speedier, After Effects plugins get cheaper and Midjourney gets sued by the industry big boys!
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Blender gets speedier, After Effects plugins get cheaper and Midjourney gets sued by the industry big boys!
This week Disney, Marvel, and Universal dropped a massive lawsuit on Midjourney that could change the entire AI landscape - we're talking potential billions in damages and a complete shift in how AI companies operate. Meanwhile, Blender 4.5 beta just landed with Vulkan support that's making everything ridiculously faster, like 14 times faster in some cases!
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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.
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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.