Maxon Declares WAR on After Effects!?!? | Motion Mondays

Maxon made a $299 compositing app free, Premiere got a dedicated color workspace, and DaVinci Resolve added a full photo editing application that nobody saw coming. NEW COURSE | Cavalry Kickstart: Learn to think procedurally and build flexible animation systems in this 13-hour foundational course taught by Greg Stewart. https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... NEW COURSE | Cinema 4D Insider: A 4-hour professional-level course taught by EJ Hassenfratz that transforms how you work in Cinema 4D — faster workflows, scene organization, Redshift mastery, and team-ready production techniques. https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... 👉 CHAPTERS 👈 00:00 Coming Up… 00:11 Maxon's Big Week 02:26 Adobe Takes Aim at DaVinci Resolve 03:24 Blackmagic Builds a Lightroom 04:31 SOM News 05:54 After Effects Is Cooking 07:01 NeXus Comes to Blender 07:48 Cool Work 08:59 Frame.io Goes Local 09:42 FrameRate 10:37 Rive Updates 11:12 Cavalry's Plugin World 11:57 Torn Paper and a Better Halftone 12:48 Student of the Week 13:12 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/traini... VFX For Motion: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... NEW: Cavalry Kickstart: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... NEW: Cinema 4D Insider: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/course... Courses & workshops coming soon: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/coming... 🗒️ SHOW NOTES Autograph (free): https://www.maxon.net/en/autograph Autograph – Getting Started on Cineversity: https://cineversity.maxon.net/en/seri... Cinema 4D 2026.2 release video:    • What's New In Redshift | Spring Release 2026   Cinema 4D for iPad beta: https://www.maxon.net/en/cinema-4d-fo... Premiere Color Mode:    • Color Mode: Your First Look | Premiere (be...   DaVinci Resolve 21:    • What’s NEW In DaVinci Resolve 21? (You’ll ...   After Effects new features (Jake Bartlett):    • They Did it Again! New Features in After E...   NeXus for Blender announcement:    • INSYDIUM NeXus Blender Preview   Frame.io Mounted Storage: https://frame.io/features/mounted-sto... Suite Studios: https://www.suitestudios.io/ FrameRate student pricing: https://framerate.tv/student-pricing Scenery.io (Cavalry plugins): https://scenery.io/plugins Easy Torn Paper: https://aescripts.com/torn-paper/ Retratone: https://texturelabs.org/tools/retrato... 🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Vitor Cervi – ESCAPE: https://framerate.tv/watch/a52f517d-7... Victor Verdugo – Anxiety, Chocolate and Keyframes: https://framerate.tv/watch/c8ab8674-2... Andrew Vucko – Google Cloud work:   / andrewvucko_theres-so-much-work-that-never...   Audrey Havey – Sword and Shield:   / audreyhavey_over-the-last-few-years-justin...   SOM Student of the Week - Melissa Chen: https://hub.schoolofmotion.com/c/stud... Melissa Chen's Instagram:   / melothechen