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AE Beta Gets Editable Illustrator Text, Artstation AI Policy | Motion Mondays
Adobe dropped three updates this week across After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator, EDGY adds real physical wear and damage to 3D geometry in Cinema 4D and Blender, and ArtStation posted its first AI policy update since the KitBash acquisition.
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This week, The After Effects beta now supports editable text from Illustrator files, which closes a handoff gap that's been painful for years. Photoshop 27.10 adds a Light Adjustment Layer for non-destructive compositing control, a Markup tool for spatially guiding AI edits, and mask-based input for generative tools. Illustrator 30.8 adds bulk relink for broken file paths and Select Through Shadows. On the ArtStation front, the NoAI tag is now auto-applied to all portfolios and Cloudflare is being used to block AI crawlers, though AI art itself is not being banned from the platform.
Also, a ton of interesting new tools including EDGY, a $15 geometry-based wear-and-damage plugin for C4D and Blender, Glazier, a liquid glass plugin for Cavalry, CrossStreak for After Effects, Easify 4, which drops a real graph editor into Premierea, and a free HDRI dome floor setup for Blender from Gleb Alexandrov. Plus, cool work from Rocketpanda, Hirokazu Yokohara, and Lucas Camargo with our student spotlight on Gro Vik currently taking our Advanced Motion Methods course. In addition, it's the last call for Half Rez in Chicago this Friday!
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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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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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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NEW Maxon Updates + This Tool Fixes Blender Materials FOREVER | Motion Mondays
Lottie Creator 2.0 takes aim at interactive animation workflows, Crayon Box brings smart material tools to Blender, and Maxon drops procedural scratches in Redshift 2026.8.