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 free image archives for your next collage or styleframe! In this week's blog post, we bring you five image archives for your next collage or styleframe, plus practical ways to use their collections and check reuse rights before client work. 💪 Read the full blog post now ➡️ som.bz/4jpy3B8

🤯 Explore in detail how @AlreadyBnChewed combines CG, live action, and AI through iconic brand films, rebrand concepts, and product animation tests! Dive into this next gen production workshop now! ➡️ som.bz/4i59bvZ

📚 Contra Labs just released a report on AI adoption, based on more than 150,000 responses. Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4i554jF

Our mind is officially blown by this incredibly straightforward Cavalry hack from Cavalry Kickstart instructor Greg Stewart - using a background shape! 🤯 Did you already know about this? Let us know in the replies! Learn more about Cavalry Kickstart now ➡️ som.bz/41MsG4Y

Our podcast IS BACK!🥳 And we're starting back up with a big one! Joey sits down with Golden Wolf co-founder @ingi_erlingsson to explore how AI is reshaping animation, motion design, and the business of running a creative studio. Watch the full podcast here ➡️ som.bz/4hYKWB8

✨️ @evrn_world has brought a whole new approach to utilizing AI in your 3D workflow - and it all starts with a 2D image! Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4i554jF

😎 @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

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