Description
Adobe just quietly started eating its own plugin ecosystem, a Japanese fashion company handed Blender a Houdini-grade cloth solver for free, and there's a talent gap in this industry that's been building for a decade.
Get the full show notes: www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/motion-mondays-july-6-2026
NEW COURSE: Unreal Engine for Broadcast Design - Learn to bring motion design work into Unreal for real-time graphics and broadcast packages, taught by Jonathan Winbush. https://schoolofmotion.com/unreal
👉 CHAPTERS 👈
0:00 Coming Up...
0:14 AE 26.3 Drops
1:14 The Junior Artist Problem
3:34 SOM News
4:15 VectorayGen Goes Free
4:59 Blender 5.2's Cloth Breakthrough
5:57 Great Work
6:58 Nano Banana 2 Lite and Omni Flash
8:03 Reallusion's AI Studio
8:56 Notch 2026.2
9:48 ABN Painterly Normals
10:25 Bria's Extract Object
11:08 Student of the Week
11:39 Pictoplasma NYC
12:17 That's a Wrap!
🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
School of Motion All-Access: https://schoolofmotion.com/all-access
School of Motion Team Training: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/training
Cinema 4D Basecamp: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/courses/cinema-4d-basecamp
New - Unreal Engine for Broadcast Design: https://schoolofmotion.com/all-access
Courses & workshops coming soon: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/coming-soon
🗒️ SHOW NOTES
After Effects 26.3 Feature Roundup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK04C1mro-U
Quick Apply (AE docs): https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/quick-apply.html
Shape Layer Pro Techniques - Eran Stern (SOM Hub): https://hub.schoolofmotion.com/c/watch-replays/shape-layer-pro-techniques-eran-stern
Overlord: https://battleaxe.co/overlord
The Junior Artist Problem: https://www.brandsinmotion.xyz/resource/whos-training-the-next-generation
Fliers on the Wall: https://www.fotw.co/
VectorayGen Goes Free: https://jangafx.com/software/vectoraygen
Blender 5.2 Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0huIwBTcKHU
Google Nano Banana 2 and Omni Flash: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite/
Reallusion AI Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upu2hG89DOg
Notch 2026.2: https://www.notch.one/
ABN Painterly Normals: https://aysuhoscan.gumroad.com/l/abntools
Bria Extract Object: https://x.com/fal/status/2071631739705762296
Pictoplasma NYC (SOM Discount): https://conference.pictoplasma.com/product/pictonyc-2026-som/
🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Ponies Title Sequence - Imaginary Forces: https://imaginaryforces.com/project/ponies
Optimizely - Giant Ant: https://framerate.tv/watch/49aaab1d-9ef3-4c12-a830-a5e7a1714863
007 First Light Title Sequence - Territory + IO Interactive: https://www.stashmedia.tv/territory-bonds-with-io-interactive-for-007-first-light-titles/
SOM Student of the Week - Roman Tanasienko: https://hub.schoolofmotion.com/c/student-showcase/cinema-4d-basecamp-take-your-best-shot-db255a8b-7078-44e9-8a43-750ca44f2fbd
Roman's portfolio: https://www.instagram.com/tanas_cg