Adobe MAX Starts Soon, Maxon Teases New Tech + Cavalry 2.5 Arrives | Motion Mondays
Adobe Max is coming, Maxon is teasing powerful new tools, Cavalry goes big on collaboration.
This week: Adobe MAX is just around the corner and we've got the scoop on when to tune in for those mind-bending Adobe Sneaks. Cavalry 2.5 just dropped with a huge new referencing feature that changes the game for collaborative workflows, and Maxon is teasing some seriously cool tech including tessellation-free displacement for Redshift and automatic depth estimation tools.
Rive launched a new nine dollar monthly tier and made their free plan even better, our friends at Dash are showing studios how to adapt by building toolkits instead of one-off videos, and we found some incredible Photoshop plugins from a metalhead designer named Charlie Pangus that'll make your life so much easier.
Plus we're featuring amazing work from around the industry and reminding everyone about our 10th annual School of Motion holiday card project. And in two weeks, our massive new course After Effects Insider drops for All Access members – over 12 hours of advanced training from the wizard Eran Stern. Stay tuned!
The Rive Academy Continues!
We are excited to release Rive Academy: Vol. 2, our next-level course for animators, UI artists, and developers who want to learn this powerful tool for interaction design. In volume 2, Joey Korenman will teach you to build and implement a fully interactive website hero section with multiple layers of interactions and is fully responsive.You’ll also learn how to use bones, constraints, nested events, and much more.
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
- School of Motion All-Access
- School of Motion Team Training
- Blender For 3D Artists
- NEW: Rive Academy Volume 2
- Courses & workshops coming soon
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
- Adobe Max
- Maxon teases tessellation-free texture displacement
- What's New in Redshift (Fall 2025 Release)
- SOM Holiday Card
- Cinematic Car Rig Lite
- The Getaway (Unreal short film)
- Aharon's Cinematic Car Rig tutorial
- Rive's new $9/month plan
- Displacecraft Photoshop plugin
- Autothresh Photoshop plugin
- Dash Studio - Sharefile
- Affinity stops selling their software
- Cavalry 2.5 release notes
- Maxon Red Giant teases depth tool
- Material Maker
🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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