Photoshop's new AI tool does some convincing compositing, Blender puts tablets on the menu, and JangaFX brings realtime liquid simulations out of Beta.
This week Blender announced they're bringing their full 3D powerhouse to the iPad and Adobe dropped some serious AI upgrades to Photoshop with their new Harmonize tool and more. But before you get too excited about AI shortcuts, we've got some real talk from studios who tried using AI tools only to find out they created more work than they saved.
We're also looking at JangaFX's incredible real-time liquid simulations, a new After Effects tool that makes shape layer animation easy, Cascadeur’s in-betweening updates, Runway’s next-gen AI tool Aleph, and some gorgeous work from Aardman that proves handcrafted animation still hits different.
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🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
- What's New in Blender 4.5 LTS! Official Overview
- Blender coming to tablets
- SOM Podcast - The State of 3D with PJ Richardson of Laundry Studio
- Harmonize lands in Photoshop
- Photoshop (Beta) Generative Upscale
- Photoshop Remove tool gets a major update
- aescripts + aeplugins Cleanup Master
- Steve Madden on AI in animation - "When is a shortcut not a shortcut?"
- Cascadeur is out with improved in-betweening
- Cascadeur
- Introducing Runway Aleph
- LiquiGen 1.0 Release Trailer - Real-time Liquid Simulations
- JangaFX LiquiGen
- Houdini plant-generation toolkit Natsura
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