Cavalry Is FREE! Is Canva Trying to Mog Adobe? | Motion Mondays

Cavalry went free, Canva is quietly building a full creative pipeline, and The Verge declared war on Adobe.

By School of Motion 2 min read

Cavalry went free, Canva is quietly building a full creative pipeline, and The Verge declared war on Adobe.

This week, Cavalry is now completely free for anyone with a Canva account - and it's just one piece of a much bigger story. Canva is quietly assembling a full creative pipeline which also includes Affinity and fresh integrations with Capture One and DaVinci Resolve - completely bypassing the Adobe pipeline. The Verge ran a piece calling this an all-out industry war, but as the long-established force, we wouldn't count Adobe out yet. Also, Andrew Price gave a talk about AI and motion design that's worth watching before jumping into the discourse.

Also this week, Rive has a $10K Impossible UI challenge running, and Webflow dropped a much better Rive integration using GSAP. OpenAI launched Images 2.0 with strong character consistency and layout-aware generation. Blender got two useful plugins: Light Painter and Copy to Autograph. Albert Omoss is launching a beta of ArcBrush, a node-based image editor he's calling a cross between Photoshop and Nuke. Plus a free font manager for Mac, and some incredible work from Colosseum, Believe Studios, and Good Secrets.

New Course: Cavalry Kickstart

We are excited to release Cavalry Kickstart, a 13-hour foundational course taught by Greg Stewart for motion designers ready to think procedurally and build flexible animation systems that would take hours to set up in After Effects. Learn to create mograph-style effects, dynamic text animations, and responsive templates that update in real time.

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Please Note: Cavalry Kickstart is included as a part of our All-Access and Team Training programs.

New Course: Cinema 4D Insider

We are also excited to release Cinema 4D Insider, a 4-hour professional-level course taught by EJ Hassenfratz that transforms how you work in Cinema 4D — covering faster workflows, scene organization, Redshift mastery, and team-ready production techniques.

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Please Note: Cinema 4D Insider is included as a part of our All-Access and Team Training programs.