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

😎 @jakeinmotion made a free After Effects preset browser, and it’s REALLY slick! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4i554jF

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Ha Nguyen! 🥳 Ha is a Paris-based marketer and freelance illustrator/motion designer going through Explainer Camp, and absolutely rocked the 'Thinking Visually' assignment! They're about halfway through the course and told us that the course is super challenging but really interesting. They’ve learned how to create a visual concept and storyboard, cut an animatic, and add music and sound effects. Well done, Ha! 👏 More about Ha ➡️ som.bz/3W2SEBt Find out more about Explainer Camp ➡️ som.bz/3W2SEkX

This week Contra puts numbers on AI adoption in motion design, Already Been Chewed opens up its CG-and-AI workflow in a new School of Motion workshop, and EVRN turns a single photo into a 3D scene you can direct. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/3WiozOt

📣 NEW WORKSHOP WITH @AlreadyBnChewed!📣 Put your artist's eye in charge of AI. Go inside Already Been Chewed's hybrid workflow for sports films, brand concepts, and product animation tests! Find out more and sign up now ➡️ som.bz/4i59bvZ

💪 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

Good training and good tools solve different parts of the same problem. The new MoGraph Essentials Bundle pairs @SchoolOfMotion's 500+ hours of motion design training with Greyscalegorilla’s production-ready 3D assets and tools. Learn a technique. Open Cinema 4D. Put it to work. Save over $450 when you get a full year of School of Motion All Access and the Greyscalegorilla Library right now: ow.ly/M4gy50ZVwrV

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

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I see a lot of rive files with megabytes of assets that could be loaded at Runtime instead of being embedded into the .riv

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