Illustrator Can ROTATE Your Art Now + Photoshop's Remove Tool Got Smarter | Motion Mondays

SnapKey brings Cinema 4D-style pose morphing to After Effects, Illustrator's Turntable graduates out of beta, and Boris FX acquires Vegas Pro, Sound Forge, and Acid Pro.

This week - Illustrator's Turntable feature is now fully baked into the app, letting you take a flat 2D illustration and generate multiple rotated views using Firefly. SnapKey for After Effects lets you capture, blend, and recall animation states across multiple layers, similar to Cinema 4D's Pose Morph. Boris FX acquired Vegas Pro, Sound Forge, and Acid Pro from Magix, and Vegas Pro 2026 dropped the same day with Nvidia Blackwell GPU support, ProRes RAW, and Continuum titling tools built in.

Motionographer is relaunching as version 4.0 with a bigger announcement coming in May. Maxon revealed their NAB 2026 booth lineup with a hands-on C4D for iPad preview on the show floor, and RenderCon 2026 is happening April 16th and 17th in Hollywood with a stacked lineup of speakers and workshops covering AI pipelines, Gaussian splats, and the future of rendering.

We also have a Blender add-on roundup covering a free Flow-style Bezier curve editor, WrapKit for procedural surface wrapping, and a Geometry Nodes cloud system. Wafer, the stylized NPR texture painting app, opened a free Windows beta, and Jonathan Winbush put out a beginner-friendly ComfyUI tutorial. We are also featuring The Untranslatable Forest, a Blender short with a Kronos Quartet score, plus Reset Play and Tokyo based MULTRA, as well as our student of the week, Nico Huidobro out of Madrid.

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🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED

• School of Motion All-Access

• School of Motion Team Training

• Illustration for Motion

• Substance Painter for Motion Designers

• Courses & workshops coming soon

🗒️ SHOW NOTES

• Maxon NAB guest pass code: NS9977

• SnapKey

• Bezier Curve Editor (Blender)

• WrapKit (Blender)

• Procedural Clouds (Blender)

• SOM E-Book - 500 Studios You Need to Know

• SOM NAB Las Vegas Mograph Meetup

• Motionographer 4.0 Coming

• RenderCon

• Sparseal Wafer

• WINBUSH - Comfy UI in 20 Minutes

• Disney interested in buying Epic Games

• BorisFX acquires Vegas Pro and more

• What's new in Adobe Photoshop 27.5

• Photoshop Remove Tool tease

• Illustrator Turntable

🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

• Ivan Miguel and Andy Camou - The Untranslatable Forest

• Rob Heasley Studio - Reset Play

• MULTRA Brand Film

• SOM Student of the Week - Nico Huidobro

• Nico Huidobro's Portfolio