Figma Adds Animation + Adobe Buys Topaz Labs | Motion Mondays
Adobe acquires Topaz Labs, Figma ships a full native animation timeline, and a motion designer runs live experiments to find out if AI is finally taking his job. Get the full show notes: www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/motion-mondays-june-29-2026 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... 0:20 Adobe Is Buying Topaz Labs 1:22 SOM News 2:15 Substance Painter 12.1 2:59 Nordmesh for C4D 3:43 CurveConductor for AE 4:30 Cool Work 5:58 Texture Ripper 6:47 Weight Paint Box 7:38 Student of the Week 8:27 Figma Motion 9:59 Rive Character Challenge 10:34 Pixel x Pixel Tokyo 11:24 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 Unreal Engine for Broadcast Design: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/unreal... Rive Academy Kickstart: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/rive-a... Character Animation Bootcamp: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... Courses & workshops coming soon: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/coming... 🗒️ SHOW NOTES Adobe Buys Topaz Labs: https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/06/a... Node Ninja Plugin: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/node-n... Substance Painter 12.1: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en... Nordmesh for C4D: https://thegreatsummit.com/products/n... CurveConductor for AE: https://aescripts.com/curveconductor/ Texture Ripper: https://puszke.itch.io/pucks-texture-... Weight Paint Box: https://superhivemarket.com/products/... Figma Motion: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducin... Rive Character Challenge: https://contra.com/community/topic/ch... Pixel x Pixel Tokyo: https://pixelpixel.jp 🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Cub Studio: https://x.com/frazdav/status/20697596... Roger Kilimanjaro: / daa0mlbs9kk Lucia Alonso: https://luciaalonso.com SOM Student of the Week - Abraham E.:: https://hub.schoolofmotion.com/c/stud... Abraham E.'s portfolio: https://behance.net/abraham-e

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