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Adobe MAX’s Craziest Reveals, After Effects Upgrades & The Mill is Back? | Motion Mondays

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This week After Effects Beta 26 is here with parametric 3D meshes, native SVG imports, and compressed playback caching that'll save you tons of disk space. Also Volinga just dropped a plugin that lets you relight Gaussian splats in real-time inside Unreal Engine, which is genuinely wild. Plus the Mill is making a comeback under new ownership, but there's a sticky situation with unpaid freelancers that really needs addressing.

We've also got an incredible fireside chat with Newfangled Studios' Macaela VanderMost about the future of motion design at scale, plus amazing work from Laika's upcoming Wildwood film, a killer showreel from Taiwanese artist Juhng Peeng Lee, and a peek at how Capacity Studios is pushing Unreal's broadcast capabilities.

But the real star of the show is our Adobe MAX 2025 roundup, where we dive deep into Project Graph (basically Nuke for Photoshop with AI) and cover all the mind-bending Sneaks like Frame Forward, Light Touch, and Project Trace Erase. Don't forget our holiday card submissions are due December 3rd, and our brand new After Effects Insider course with Eran Stern just dropped on All Access.

New Course: After Effects Insider!

We are excited to release After Effects Insider, a comprehensive 12-hour course designed for professionals who want to maximize efficiency in After Effects and unlock its full potential. Learn to customize workspaces, optimize performance, create reusable templates, work with 3D models, and discover hidden effects and techniques. Taught by Eran Stern, this course covers essential workflow optimizations and advanced production techniques that will transform how you use After Effects—from setup to final render.

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🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

🅰️ ADOBE MAX 2025 ROUNDUP

🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

The All-Access discount is SOLD OUT, but you can still get 25% off all individual courses! We’ve been quietly rolling out our new All-Access program, where you can get every course we make for one low price. It’s a crazy good deal even without this sale. But until Wednesday 12/4, you can get it for 25% off. For this sale we are opening up 100 spots. After those sell out, you’ll have to wait at least a few months until we open more. Don’t sleep on this deal. We expect it to sell out fast.

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