✏️ Grease Pencil Field Guide is HERE!✏️ This epic new course by @sweetboy_motion teaches you to draw, animate, and composite 2D work directly in Blender. Find out more and start now! ➡️ som.bz/4wOp7s5 #b3d #blendercommunity #blender

This week Greyscalegorilla tackles three everyday Cinema 4D headaches, Figma and Weave turn a trading-card design into a reusable workflow, and Andrew Price tests whether viral AI 3D demos survive contact with Blender. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ buff.ly/vNGcJFR

I recently completed the Rive Academy Kickstart course on @SchoolOfMotion taught by @jkorenman It's an excellent course to get into the software. I have a long way to go to master it, its so complex, so I'm in the middle of the 2nd course with a 3rd on the horizon! @rive_app

Is it time to raise your rates?🤔 In our latest blog post, we look at five signs your rates might be lower than they should be, plus practical ways to test a higher rate with clients and new inquiries! Read the full post here ➡️ buff.ly/7UkMrpo

If you still think of Canva as just a tool for making quick social media graphics, their new ProSuite announcement just might change your mind! Find out more on Motion Mondays! ➡️ buff.ly/72LIEOM

✨️ This lighting rule will INSTANTLY improve your 3D renders! If your 3D renders look flat, you need to know the 70/30 lighting rule. Light your subject 70% in light, 30% in shadow and watch your renders come alive! Try it out and let us know in the comments if this helped! 👇 Big thanks again to @eyedesyn for this week's Quick Tip 💪 Want to learn more? Check out our C4D and Blender courses! ➡️ buff.ly/QXdscbd

If you love the aesthetic of Aseprite but wish you could paint low-res textures directly across a 3D model, Pixel Art Studio brings that entire workflow into Blender! Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/72LIEOM

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Matheus M. Bianchi! 🥳 Matheus gave his reel a whole new level of WOW with Demo Reel Dash - incredible work, Matheus! 👏 More about Matheus ➡️ buff.ly/G23YIRi Find out more about Demo Reel Dash ➡️ buff.ly/H68VldU

This week Canva takes direct aim at Adobe with its new ProSuite ecosystem, Jake Bartlett calls out misleading AI motion graphics tools, and Putty gives After Effects a modern mesh warp alternative. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ buff.ly/Tccs3bD

❌️ Your portfolio is NOT an art gallery ❌️ It’s a decision-making tool! In our latest blog post, we look at 5 ways to help a busy creative director understand what you do, see your best work, and decide you're the right person for the job 💪 buff.ly/EW8uRXn

Kyle Webster has a lesson on building custom Procreate brushes that we cannot recommend enough! 🖌️ Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/f38cO4L

🤔 New to modeling in Blender? Here are the ESSENTIAL commands you need to get started! As always, thank you to @eyedesyn for another quick tip! Want to really get to grips with Blender? Check out our Blender courses (Grease Pencil Field Guide just launched!) ➡️ buff.ly/YkIFupx

In case you missed it 😱 Our NEW AI Foundations for Motion course is here! It teaches motion designers how to choose the right tool and level of control, turn references into creative direction, and use AI responsibly. The tech may be moving fast, but the core of the job hasn’t changed: make something good. Find out more and sign up now ➡️ buff.ly/9CHVT7F

Analog FX Lab, available on aescripts, gives you VHS signal processing and CRT display effects in a GPU-accelerated Cavalry filter! 📼 Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/f38cO4L

A NEW COURSE IS HERE 🥳 AI Foundations for Motion! Learn to use AI with taste, control, and confidence in your motion design workflow in this course taught by School of Motion founder @jkorenman. Find out more and enroll now ➡️ buff.ly/eJ3Dvou

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Johannes Kunert, from Germany! 🥳 Johannes just wrapped up Cinema 4D Basecamp and blew us away with his take on the 'The Ultimate Test' assignment! He said that he last used Cinema 4D a decade ago, and that he never made this much progress on his own back then. Fantastic work, Johannes! More about Johannes ➡️ buff.ly/uRDgY7o Find out more about Cinema 4D Basecamp ➡️ buff.ly/lob2UH6

With all of the pomp and circumstance and fanfare I can muster, I am so excited to tell you that Entropy is now out in the world. Go download the trial and check it out. It's maybe the most fun I've had in After Effects in a long time.

This week AI assistants are finding their way into creative apps, Rive is getting closer to that Flash feeling with a new Brush Tool, and After Effects has a new trick for textured 3D type. It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode here ➡️ buff.ly/H5zXQaO

🔠 10 Typography Tips for Motion Design! Typography can make a motion piece feel intentional before a single keyframe moves. If you want to dial in your typography-related work, read our latest blog post! ➡️ buff.ly/RuSBczK

EDGY, by 3D artist Cornelius Dämmrich, is a new wear-and-tear plugin for C4D and Blender that actually modifies the geometry, so the chips, cracks, and damage are baked into the mesh itself! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ buff.ly/Gijs3bG

I just finished my first animatic project as part of @SchoolOfMotion 's Premiere Pro for Motion Designers course. This is my first step towards animated game intros and explainers for the Mad-Eye Yokai YT channel in a few months time. 🥳 Enjoy!