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!
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!
We're also covering aescripts + aeplugins Summer of Sales with some killer deals on tools like Limber 2 and Bendio that could save you serious cash, plus Apple's new Liquid Glass design that looks gorgeous but has the internet absolutely roasting them for accessibility issues.
Kill some time with this amazing YouTube channel called Bell Brothers that's doing VFX mashups of Sesame Street and horror movies that will completely destroy your productivity for the day. Or use your time wisely by doing a deep dive with SilverwingVFX’s Octane materials breakdown that could level up your rendering game immediately.
IMPORTANT: School of Motion All-Access is here. Get every course, unlimited critique on your work, a vibrant 24/7 community, verified credentials and much more! Even better, get it all for one low price.
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
- aescripts + plugins summer sale
- Creative Codex
- Felt That Boxing - game trailer
- Behind-the-Scenes – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios & Sans Strings Studio
- 4DV - 4D Gaussian Splats
- Tim Sweeny on Unreal's coordinates system
- Video - Blender 4.5 Speeds Up Everything!
- Vucko - Intuit project
- Procreate Dreams 2 - sneak peak preview
- Silverwing's Octane materials deep dive
- Greyscalegorilla adds glass materials
- Apple Liquid Glass
- TechCrunch article on Liquid Glass reactions
- Disney, Universal file complaint against Midjourney
- How the Disney-Midjourney Lawsuit Could Reshape the Battle Over AI and Copyright
🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
- Ravie Studio reel
- Nick Greenwalt's reel
- Bell Brothers - B.O.B. (Birds Over Big Bird)
- SOM Student of the Week - Aida Baird
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Knights of the Editing Table ➔
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Maxon ➔
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Mode Designs ➔
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Motion Array ➔
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Motion Hatch ➔
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