School of Motion

🎉Unreal for Broadcast Design has arrived!🎉 It's our new 4-hour course taught by multi-award-winning motion graphics artist @JonathanWinbush. Learn to create stunning broadcast motion graphics packages that blend 2D and 3D elements seamlessly - all in real-time! Find out more ➡️ som.bz/3QED1hf

Attention LA peeps and anyone hitting up #Siggraph! @SchoolOfMotion & @MaxonVFX are having a meetup Monday July 20th 8-10PM at Toms Watch Bar right next to the LA Convention Center! 🎟️ Grab your free tickets here: maxon.net/en/join-the-si…

School of Motion All Access member Devanshu Tak recently shared a massive, searchable directory of over thirteen hundred free and paid 3D resources! Check them out on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4bluiru

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Éabha Bortolozzo, from Melbourne, Australia! 🥳 Éabha is a motion designer and animator that blew us away with her take on the "Counting the Days" assignment in Demo Reel Dash! Amazing work, Éabha! More about Éabha ➡️ som.bz/4vX4GcS Find out more about Demo Reel Dash ➡️ som.bz/464tVzR

This week Mixos puts a PBR texture studio right in your browser, After Effects gets real-time fluid simulation with Plumebus, and Blender is officially making its first feature film! 🎥 It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/3Rqjkdw

🪄 7 more essential Cinema 4D tips and tricks! We're all about mastering viewport navigation, custom layouts, modeling tricks and more in this week's blog. Check it out here! ➡️ som.bz/44fmYKd

✏️ In next week's Community Livestream, @sweetboy_motion will be showing off some of the exciting features of Grease Pencil in Blender by walking through projects from his actual upcoming course! Join All-Access now and get access to our livestreams, job board and ALL our courses! ➡️ som.bz/40GGIVr

A Japanese fashion company casually open sourced a research grade cloth solver, and now it's a reason you may not need to go into Houdini to do cloth sims 🤯 Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4aCjchs

If you're working in Adobe Illustrator and need to recolor an entire design, this Quick Tip is for YOU! 🫵 Ready to master Illustrator? Check out our Illustrator-focused courses here! ➡️ som.bz/3R2Wpob

A couple weeks ago Adobe dropped After Effects 26.3, and our friend @jakeinmotion put together an epic feature roundup! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4aCjchs

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Roman Tanasienko, from Portugal! 🥳 Roman is a self-taught graphic designer that WOWed us with his take on Cinema 4D Basecamp's 'Take Your Best Shot' assignment. Well done, Roman! More about Roman ➡️ som.bz/3SWFYdR Find out more about Cinema 4D Basecamp ➡️ som.bz/43XeBUi

This week Adobe quietly started eating its own plugin ecosystem, a Japanese fashion company handed Blender a Houdini-grade cloth solver for free, and we look at the talent gap in the motion design industry 🕵️ It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/4vbn5Bq

Discover some of the essential skills taught across School of Motion's After Effects courses, from layer fundamentals to expressions and camera animation! Read the full article ➡️ som.bz/3SD8rFw

If you're a @rive_app user, you have until July 2nd and a shot at TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS 🤯 Get all the deets on Rive's new Character Animation Challenge in the show notes ➡️ som.bz/4xXC3gO

How do you approach animating with no keyframes in Unreal Engine? @JonathanWinbush has the answer in this sneak peek from his NEW course, Unreal Engine for Broadcast Design! Find out more about the course ➡️ som.bz/4w7vwyD

A new After Effects plugin called CurveConductor has landed on @aescripts, and it makes working with animation curves a whole lot easier across your entire comp! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4xXC3gO

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Abraham E. from Brighton, UK! 🥳 Abraham showed us how it's done with his take on the "Strike a Pose" assignment in Character Animation Bootcamp! Way to go Abraham! More about Abraham ➡️ som.bz/4oKQLUc Find out more about Character Animation Bootcamp ➡️ som.bz/4qtdFj4

This week Adobe is making a MASSIVE move by acquiring Topaz Labs, Figma just shipped a full native animation timeline, and a motion designer runs live experiments to find out if AI is finally taking his job 🤔 It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/4fbnU7x

This 2017 article does an incredible job of explaining why AI won't replace motion designers, without ever mentioning motion design. johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/real…

FREE After Effects text presets? We've got a whole list of them! We've scoured the internet to create a list of some of our favourite AE text presets. Why do the work that someone's already done, and made available for free! Check out the full list (plus some extras) here ➡️ som.bz/3SpHTHS

Unreal Engine 5.8 is out, and it added true 3D terrain sculpting, a built-in toon shader, and an experimental plugin that lets you drop Claude into your Blueprint graph 😮 Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4eBvyHF