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One-Click Liquid Glass in After Effects & Hundreds of Walk Cycles | Motion Mondays

After Effects gets that Apple liquid look, Cartwheel adds hundreds of walk cycles to their mocap library and Animation Composer gets an upgrade.

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Crazy fast physics simulations, After Effects’ gets some powerful updates, and Midjourney steps into the video generation arena.

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Why Every Motion Designer Needs to Learn How to Edit

If you're trying to edit videos in After Effects, you're using the wrong tool for the job – and it's time to embrace a proper video editor like Premiere Pro.

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Learn to create complex-looking text animations in After Effects with practical techniques and insider tricks that'll level up your motion design game.

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C4D Gets Fluids + Photoshop's Auto-Resizing Text | Motion Mondays

This week Maxon finally delivered what everyone's been waiting for - fluid simulations in Cinema 4D, complete with the ability to recreate wine, honey, and lava sims that'll make your Houdini friends jealous. Get the latest motion news!

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Introducing Premiere for Motion Designers

In Premiere for Motion Designers, taught by Kyle Hamrick, you’ll learn to leverage the art of video editing to increase your creativity and efficiency. Create better animatics, easily edit audio & music, and effortlessly add footage to your motion projects.

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Blender gets speedier, After Effects plugins get cheaper and Midjourney gets sued by the industry big boys!

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Motion to Interactive: How One Disney Grad Built a Design Studio for Tomorrow

Disney animator turned studio co-founder Aradhana Bejarano shares the career mistakes that cost years, why 80% of her work is now interactive, and how small studios need to think like content creators to thrive.

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Maxon's Big Acquisition, Procreate 5.4 Teaser & Unreal Engine 5.6 Released | Motion Mondays

Maxon takes on After Effects, the future of procreate is revealed, and a big update comes to Unreal Engine!

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The Future of Motion Design: Live Talk from AEPDX 2025

In this keynote from Portland, Joey explores "The Futurey Feeling" - that sensation when you recognize the next big shift in motion design before everyone else catches on. Drawing from 25+ years in the industry, Joey breaks down three massive technological shifts happening right now:

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Railway Goes Full Steam + AI Motion Blur Magic | Motion Mondays

This week brings Good Boy Ninja's path animation powerhouse Railway, AI-powered motion blur magic, and Captain Disillusion's nerdy deep-dive into blur mathematics.

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3 Animation Principles to Transform Your Blender Work

Level up your Blender animations instantly with these 3 pro animation principles! Master SQUASH & STRETCH for realistic weight and exaggeration, OVERLAPPING ACTION for fluid motion, and TIMING & SPACING for that professional polish.

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Google's Mind-Blowing AI + Creative Cloud Gets Pricier | Motion Mondays

Google Veo makes a giant leap forward in AI video generation, Adobe raises prices, and Rive and Unreal Engine bring new features!

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One-Click Robot Vision in After Effects, Adobe PAYS YOU, and a 3D Puppet-master | Motion Mondays

A trendsetting new robot vision plugin for After Effects, Adobe invites you to be a paid apprentice, and digital puppetry goes hard with real-time.

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Sarah Beth Morgan Gets Real About Parenthood, Career Crisis & Her New Podcast

Sarah Beth Morgan, illustrator and School of Motion instructor, joins Joey to dish about the real stuff: moving across the country, having a baby, and navigating the ever-changing animation industry.

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Figma just announced WHAT!?! + Buck makes Rive Magic for Notion AI | Motion Mondays

Figma takes aim, Buck does interactive design, Illustrator’s mockup tool gets crazy, and ILM embraces AI.

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New Way to Animate in Blender + JangaFX's Sweet Liquid Sims | Motion Mondays

A more intuitive way to animate in Blender, incredible realtime liquid simulations from the makers of Embergen, and a stand-alone clean plate tool from Wonder Dynamics!

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Mack Garrison, Dash Studio, and Building Creative Community

Joey recently caught up with the main dude behind Dash Studio, Mack Garrison, for an episode of the School of Motion podcast that's creative rocket fuel.

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Introducing SOM All-Access

We are super excited to officially launch our School of Motion All-Access program. Already immensely popular at some of the biggest studios and companies in the world, All-Access gives you everything you love about School of Motion, at an insanely affordable price.

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NEW After Effects Drawing Tool & Clay Effects in Blender | Motion Mondays

Draw right inside of After Effects, make anything out of Clay in Blender, and see tons of new stuff in DaVinci Resolve!

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Talk to Photoshop & Animation Industry Health Check | Motion Mondays

Photoshop’s upcoming agentic AI, a temperature check on the animation industry, and an easy way to create product animations.

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3D Drawings in After Effects & Voxel Tools for Cinema 4D | Motion Mondays

Sketches come to life in After Effects, It’s hip to be square (or cubed) in C4D, and humans get real with Character Creator 5!

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Big (AWESOME) Changes are Coming to School of Motion

With School of Motion All-Access you unlock everything we have, including every SOM course and workshop (including new ones we release), unlimited critique, 24/7 community and online events.

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After Effects 25.2 Features + Liquid Sims in Cinema 4D | Motion Mondays

Fluid Effects in C4D, After Effects previews upgraded, and a battle for Rive supremacy!

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How to Create Studio Ghibli Textures in Substance Painter 11

Create a Studio Ghibli look for 3D without AI! Learn how to transform your 3D textures into beautiful painterly styles with Substance Painter 11's powerful new Stylization filter.

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Rive’s Neumorphic Magic & 3D Secrets Revealed | Motion Mondays

New stuff from Rive, free stuff for 3D artists and Studio Ghibli stuff from just about everybody. This week we uncover Victor Verdugo's generous gift to the 3D community as he shares his incredible morphing drinks project files for free! Dive into Blender 4.4's major upgrades with slotted actions, enhanced animation tools, and performance boosts.

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AI-Powered Blender & Substance Painter Gets Painterly | Motion Mondays

Blender’s AI intern, Photoshop’s background removal is a net loss, and Bob Ross becomes the ghost in Substance Painter’s machine.

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