School of Motion

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

This week we're talking about 10 of the biggest motion design stories of 2026 so far! We're covering everything from artists building their own software, free apps challenging After Effects, AI promises vs. production demands and more! It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/3XbbruT

4 Cavalry setups that save you from animating every shape by hand! 🛠️ Build repeating patterns, staggered reveals, layout variations, and controlled randomness in Cavalry without animating every shape by hand, with the tips and trick from this week's blog post! Read the full blog post now ➡️ som.bz/3VYUovP

Next week's Community Livestream is all about Figma Weave in Action, with none other than @jkorenman! Learn how to get started with Figma Weave to automate and scale your designs and animations. Part of the All-Access Community - find out more! ➡️ som.bz/4pFfvh8

Font Revival is a free collection of fonts, ornaments, and decorative cuts from 19th century printing, brought back as usable digital assets! ✒️ Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays! ➡️ som.bz/4eKGsvH

Did you know you can paste assets from Illustrator straight into Cavalry? 🤯 Cavalry Kickstart is FULL of time-saving tips and tricks, aimed at getting you using Cavalry like a pro as quickly as possible. Find out more ➡️ som.bz/41MsG4Y

🥕 There's a new file browser for Windows called Carrots, and it's built for people who deal with a lot of media! Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4eKGsvH

This week's SOM Student of the Week is Paul Otremba! 🥳 Paul is a motion designer that also comes with 15+ years of video production experience, and he said School of Motion has helped him rediscover his love for animation and movement! While he enjoyed one-off tutorials, for him they weren’t a substitute for more structured education. He absolutely rocked the 'Counting Down The Days' assignment for Demo Reel Dash (and his other assignments in Animation Bootcamp and Design Bootcamp!). Well done, Paul! More about Paul ➡️ som.bz/4zVdotB Find out more about Demo Reel Dash ➡️ som.bz/3WPIsN1

This week CorridorKey levels up to 2.0, A$AP Rocky’s music video faces accusations of copying artists’ work with AI, and Motion Dock packs 28 free tools into one After Effects panel⚡ It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/4eKGsvH

5 Photoshop Tricks That Make Client Revisions Less Painful! 🙏 This week's blog post gives you 5 essential tips for keeping client changes editable, from techniques for layout variations, shared assets, independent options, to localized color changes and cutouts. Read the full blog post now ➡️ som.bz/3USJ9Vi

It's harder than ever to get attention on the internet, but designer @_darshi and filmmaker @vikpat found a pretty spectacular way to do it! Have you ever considered doing a personal branding film for your work? Get the full scoop on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4BJ8GB4

ICYMI: We've teamed up with @GSG3D for a LIMITED TIME to bring you the MoGraph Essentials Bundle! Don't miss out! 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

AI just rigged this character in Cinema 4D 🤯 Cinema 4D recently launched its MCP, and @eyedesyn tested it out by let AI rig Numo, a super stylized character that would break a normal auto-rigger like Mixamo. The real takeaway? AI worked this well because I know rigging. The artist behind the wheel is still the superpower. Would you let AI rig your characters? Let us know below! 👇 Learn C4D from scratch with C4D Basecamp (School of Motion) ➡️ som.bz/3TOzdeG

If you’ve been wanting more control over filling a 3D scene or making a splash look convincing, holy moly, Maxon’s fall release DELIVERS 🤯 Find out more on Motion Mondays ➡️ som.bz/4BJ8GB4

This week's Student of the Week is Matt Lott! 🥳 Matt is a Digital Content Producer that was looking for an After Effects refresher when he enrolled in After Effects Kickstart, and ended up rocking the Epic Lyric Smackdown assignment! Well done, Matt! 👏 More about Matt ➡️ som.bz/4hWP8Bm Find out more about After Effects Kickstart ➡️ som.bz/47AlYSv

This week Maxon’s fall release brings new ways to build and light scenes, Darshita Patankar turns a personal pitch into a viral film, and Nick Greenawalt gets brands to sponsor his toilet?! 🚽 It's Motion Mondays! Watch the full episode now ➡️ som.bz/4Bw8GEo

🖼️ 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