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Rive shipped a 25-kilobyte GPU layer that competes with Unity, X-Particles is coming to Blender, and there is a new After Effects glow plugin that makes the built-in one look embarrassing.

Rive's GPU Canvas adds custom shaders, 3D imports, and rendering pipelines at 25 kilobytes. Insydium, the company behind X-Particles, launched Nexus for Blender in beta. A Disney Animation lighting artist built a single-node painterly render filter in his spare time, officially shipping in Blender 5.2. Mikey Borup's Element Glow is a new, insanely fast After Effects plugin with near-real-time glow and hue, saturation, and luminance targeting.

Also, Higgsfield pushed its AI tools inside Premiere and After Effects. Adobe's NVIDIA partnership promises faster Photoshop and Premiere. The co-founder of Frame.io is building a storage tool called Strada that directly undercuts Frame.io's pricing. Finally, we'll look at cool work from The Heist, Studio Dumbar, and a live Rive installation on an EuroLeague basketball court. Plus our student spotlight is on Sorcha McGlinchey, a motion designer and Celtic Award winner from Toronto.

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School of Motion just launched its first free Cinema 4D plugin - and it solves one of the most tedious parts of working with Redshift. Node Ninja reads your texture folder and builds a complete, production-ready Redshift material automatically: every map connected, every node wired, color spaces set correctly. One click. Done.

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