NEW COURSE | Rive Academy: Data Binding - Make Rive respond to the real world! 🛠️ This course teaches you to connect real runtime data to responsive layouts, reusable components, animation, and behavior. Find out more! ➡️ buff.ly/XTCw5wv

💪 5 storyboard checks that catch problems before you animate! In this week's blog, we look at how to catch confusing action, awkward cuts, and rushed timing BEFORE you animate, with five practical storyboard checks you can run using paper, a pen, and a script! Read the full blog post ➡️ som.bz/4dAAFsb

Are green screen's days numbered? 🤔 It's hard to imagine, but a new model from LTX called Alpha Gen can extract a foreground object with a level of detail that is kind of hard to believe, regardless of what background it was filmed on. Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/3WnAcUg

Why your 3D materials look FAKE 😱 ...and how to fix it! Your 3D materials look fake because they’re too perfect. Real surfaces have roughness variation, micro surface detail, and subtle color variation, and you can fake all three with just a couple of noise textures. Works in any 3D software! Learn more with our wide selection of 3D courses! ➡️ som.bz/45WmkCb Want more tips like this? Let us know in the replies 👇

We've teamed up with @GSG3D to bring you the EPIC MoGraph Essentials Bundle! It gets you a year of School of Motion All Access, plus a year of complete access to Greyscalegorilla's library of production-ready assets and tools 💪 Find out more ➡️ som.bz/4ij4H6o

This week's Student of the Week is Scott Nellis! 🥳 Scott is an illustrator based in the UK that took on Animation Bootcamp's 'Be The Ice Sculptor' assignment and rocked it! He said that joining School of Motion has been the most enriching learning experience for him since University 💪 Great work, Scott! We love having you as part of the SOM community! More about Scott ➡️ som.bz/4ye91Zw Find out more about Animation Bootcamp ➡️ som.bz/4x8JfWL

This week LTX Alpha Gen has us questioning how long we'll need green screens, ArtCraft builds seven open-source Adobe lookalikes, and ShotLink brings a live Unreal Engine preview into After Effects. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/47j2zp1

🛠️ 5 Rive Animation stress tests and how to fix what breaks! This week we walk you through 5 different stress tests for your Rive animation, and how to fix things if they break 💪 Full blog post ➡️ buff.ly/ap2TDUV Ready to dive into Rive? Check out our Rive Academy, including the brand new course - Rive Academy: Data Binding! ➡️ buff.ly/naWBEfZ

Blender on Android is officially happening, and we just got a sneak peek from the Blender Conference! Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/sFc92Nb

In this week's Quick Tip, Rive Academy instructor @mazzeimotion talks about his favorite thing about Data Binding in @rive_app! Are you ready to get started? Check out Rive Academy: Data Binding now! ➡️ buff.ly/Ha8BuPq

We've been faking lighting changes in Photoshop with dodge and burn for decades. But Adobe just dropped Relight into the Photoshop Beta, and it's a dedicated tool that actually turns your stills into an interactive lighting sandbox!💡 Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/3QAs6Ai

This week's SOM Student of the week is Patryk Wasowicz! 🥳 Patryk is a Motion and Graphic Designer from Warsaw, Poland that took on the challenge of Cavalry Kickstart's 'Create Your Poster Generator' assignment, and aced it! He said he previously tried learning Cavalry from YouTube tutorials, but said Cavalry Kickstart's structured approach made it much easier to understand the software. Well done, Patryk! More about Patryk ➡️ buff.ly/81eg2Ix Find out more about Cavalry Kickstart ➡️ buff.ly/edtgM34

This week non-destructive AI relighting comes to Photoshop, Blender is officially heading to Android tablets, and Cinema 4D now connects directly to Claude via MCP. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ buff.ly/sFc92Nb

5 Rive interactions you can add to a portfolio site! 🛠️ This week's blog post runs through 5 ideas of how to "zhuzh up" you portfolio website with creative interactions! Which ones are you going to try? Let us know in the comments! Read the full blog post here ➡️ https://buff.ly/xfH30M5 Want to master Rive? We JUST launched Rive Academy: Data Binding! Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/Ha8BuPq

Andrew Price, the Blender Guru himself, decided to test some of the 3D claims made by AI companies. And he found out a whole lot! Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/WCBC2zD

Last week, @GSG3D dropped THREE new plugins! 😮 Which one are you the most excited about? Let us know in the comments! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/WCBC2zD

Did you know Illustrator has its own version of After Effects Precomps?! The Symbols panel lets you create one master source with multiple linked copies that all update automatically when you change the original. Game changer for anything with repeated elements, like map pins, icons, UI components, etc! Did you know about this one? Let us know in the replies 👇