Secret After Effects Features, Blender MoGraph Tools, Half-Rez Returns | Motion Mondays

Kyle Webster, Adobe's brush master, makes a surprising move to Procreate. Blender users get a MoGraph boost with new tools rivaling Cinema 4D. Plus, Half-Rez 2024 is announced, promising another epic gathering for motion designers in Chicago.

We also explore viral VFX tactics, Womp's new 3D asset library, and the emergence of Pikimov, a free web-based animation tool that takes aim at After Effects. Don't miss updates on Blender 4.2 LTS, ElevenLabs' Voice Isolator, and Luma AI's Dream Machine’s new keyframing feature.

👉 CHAPTERS 👈
00:00 Intro
00:24 Kyle Webster Joins Procreate
01:03 Viral VFX Magic
02:19 Last Chance for Summer Classes
02:55 Womp Adds Assets Library
04:37 Pikimov: Free Cloud-Based 2D Animation App
05:46 B4D Tools for Blender Updates
07:54 Half Rez 2024 Announced
08:33 Throwback: Gettysburg from Block & Tackle
09:20 Blender LTS 4.2 Upcoming Release
10:29 Mother of MoGraph Summer Collection
10:56 Voice Isolator from ElevenLabs
13:05 SOM Student of the Week
13:52 After Effects Deep Cuts from Matt Volp
15:40 Luma AI Launches Keyframes

SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

[OnAWireStudios]

10:27 that is absolute MUSIC to my Blenderhead-ears. You guys have no idea how cool it would be to get some Blender content from SOM. I learned 80-90% of anything useful I know about motion graphics from binging SOM videos. I don't have AE anymore since I changed jobs, but I use Blender a TON. This would be incredible. And I know there are bucketloads of folks in the Blender community who would hop onboard for this.

[edmungbean]

If B4D isn’t blackboxed and its nodes are editable, i’d argue it’s a very credible threat when maxon’s licences are expensive for a 6-seat studio, and those smaller studios are a huge majority in the motion design industry. Especially during the silent recession we’re experiencing

[blackvertigoion]

I love that blender is getting love on this page

[BrnTheBuilder]

Loving these weekly updates! Feels like I'm always staying on top of what's going on in the industry, and mushc more entertaining than an email! :)

I can't wait to see what the creative team of SoM is gonna do with Blender and its geometry nodes! Happy to see that you gain interest in this software

[christinaagapitou]

Wowww thank you so so much for the mention! My next savings are going to another course of yours for sure.

[guillo]

Amazing show! Thanks a lot for sharing all this great content!

[iamwilljane]

I've never hit a C4D bug and had maxon fix it within my project timeline, but I have had small developers jump to my aid on several occasions. As some otbher comments mention its also not a closed box system you can go in and play with the node setup. I'd like it to be part of Blender but this is great for me at the moment.

[aissamotion]

Ooh sheep noise lol. I was animating at 4AM and wearing earphones and suddenly heard that noise my soul left my body 😂😂

[LetTheWritersWrite]

Blender Geometry Nodes is the game changer.

[MaximumTips]

Honestly I would love to take your courses, I just wish they weren't expensive.

[TheLillianYoung]

I want to sign up for the classes but can't decide which. I'm a Maya, AE and editing pro but want to refresh my skills. I can keep up with C4D too as I know Maya isn't taught in your classes.

[bnernganmont]

b4d is promising but i ended up having to bounce over to animax which is by far the best mograph tool for blender right now even tho it lacks array tools. Was trying to pipe the b4d arrays into animax but wasnt happening so ended up building my own arrays in geonodes. Also b4d can get noisey when u layer effectors, altho the new fields thing looks like it might tweak that (update - yeah way better now). The delay function sucked in previous version (and is awesome in animax). I found it unusable after a bit, while being inititally very impressed. This was with older version tho. Ill download the new one and update.

[realOmarSyam]

a comment for the algorithm gods. BTW did you know that baby kangaroos are called joeys? reminds me of Ben Marriott for some reason haha.

[FlameForgedSoul]

"I don't know how feasible..."
[ _Photopea has entered the chat_ ]

[polimatia_es]

Using AI is basically thowing the dice. The good news is that everybody gets luckier and luckier every month, sometimes every week. The bad news is that, "to get there", we need underneath a working intelligence aware of the world as we know it. Nobody knows how many years will be needed for that.

[lukout]

After seeing the backlash on Adobe terms of conditions issue, It feels more than ever the need to find real alternatives to these apps, specially for after effects, Its becoming very expensive to mantain these times.

[dpmjmun]

The Judy Garland part was a bit sad because she was very badly treated during the production

[realhamza]

i know this is unrelated but give the Quran a read

[thisninja]

whoa thanks for mentioning that plugin for blender, its much cheaper than the cloner-like plugin i bought for 50 hahaha... shit

But honestly, I really love C4D, especially after learning with EJ during the first course at SOM, but its really expensive and I cant really do the year license or month by month right now so I decided to not let those skills die by using blender. But the more I use blender, the more I want to go back to C4D. I will say that I am getting p comfy with Blender, especially after looking around for some good decent YT resources.