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Adobe Reverses Animate's Death + Blender's 2026 Roadmap | Motion Mondays
Blender released their 2026 roadmap, Cinema 4D gets a scene node power-up, and Adobe kills Adobe Animate... then gives it a stay of execution.
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Blender released their 2026 roadmap, Cinema 4D gets a scene node power-up, and Adobe kills Adobe Animate... then brings it back to life.
This week Adobe killed and then necromanced Animate back to life, Blender shared their 2026 plans include Eevee Next improvements (and much more), and Theory Accelerated released a new GPU liquid solver for Houdini as a free open beta. Also, Runway launched Gen-4.5 Image to Video with improved camera control and character consistency and Friends of Motion tested AI 2D-to-3D tools like Hunyuan and Rodin.
Cinema 4D got Druckli Tools V2 for scene nodes, PureRef 2.1 added shapes and background grids, and Figma launched Vectorize for converting rasters to vectors. Plus Pwnisher's new Dream Sequence 3D challenge, Dash Studio's 2025 motion design survey results, and some awesome work from Imaginary Forces, Studio Nuts and more.
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Adobe's Major Partnership Announced & Blender Gets New Leadership | Motion Mondays
Adobe builds a future with Runway, Blender has a changing of the guard, and Tencent introduces an AI retopology tool that looks like the real deal.
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Plugins for ALL + Maxon Doubles Down on Autograph | Motion Mondays
Maxon made Autograph free for entire studios this week, and there are more plugins dropping than we know what to do with.
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Figma Adds Animation + Adobe Buys Topaz Labs | Motion Mondays
Adobe is making a massive move by acquiring Topaz Labs, Figma just shipped a full native animation timeline, and a motion designer runs live experiments to find out if AI is finally taking his job.