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Clankers are EDITING now? + Rive Gets Brushes | Motion Mondays
AI assistants are finding their way into creative apps, Rive is getting closer to that Flash feeling with a new Brush Tool, and After Effects has a new trick for textured 3D type.
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Spenser Dickerson's AI-built Blender gymnasium, Resolve Studio 21.1's assistant integration, and a Lego rig built with Atom in After Effects raise the same question: how much control do you need? Joey looks at where automation saves time and where taste, timing, and judgment still matter. The After Effects materials beta brings Substance surfaces to text and shapes, while Rive's brush preview and GPU Canvas point toward more ways to combine handmade artwork with interactive animation. School of Motion's AI Foundations for Motion puts those questions into practice, including references, vibe coding, and a complete motion project.
Nemo explores animation software built by artists, Womp previews AI as a render engine, and the copyright fight over training data continues. Kyle Webster makes custom brushes feel meditative, EDGY damages 3D geometry, and Analog FX Lab brings VHS and CRT effects to Cavalry. Featured work includes Spider-Verse, Hocus Pocus, Territory, SYSTMS, and Cinema 4D Basecamp student Johannes Kunert.
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
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🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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New AE Particle Plugin + Blender 5.3 Teases New NPR Shading | Motion Mondays
There's a fast new GPU-based particle plugin for After Effects in beta, an AI agent lives inside After Effects and actually impressed Jake Bartlett, and Blender is getting real per-light cel shading in 5.3.
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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 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.