2023: The Year In Mograph

2023: The Year In Mograph

Author: School of Motion: Design & Animation Training for MoGraph Artists December 27, 2023 Duration: 6:48:46

Get ready for the School of Motion's annual end-of-the-year podcast extravaganza, featuring an epic and (record-breaking!) discussion.

Show Notes

People

 EJ Hassenfratz

Ryan Summers

Austin Bauwens

Amanda Russell

Sekani Solomon

Marina Nakagawa

Jonathan Winbush

Nick Forshee

Justin Cone

Joe Nash

Chad Ashley

Hayley Akins

Kelsey (Premiere Gal)

Barton Damer

 Louis Wes

Sara Beth Morgan

Zak Lovatt

Don Allen Drug Free

Dave

Eve Paints

Southern Shotty

Troy Browne

Emanuele Colombo

Catharine Pitt

François Lefebvre

Twistedpoly

Roelof Knol

Stephan Bischof

Kris Theorin

David Ariew

Beeple

Jake Bartlett

Aaron Blaise

Alex Grigg

Nick Greenawalt

Rowan Cheung

Caleb Ward

Steve Talkowski

Studios

Ravie Cream

Buck

Already Been Chewed Lovatt Studio Bad Decisions Studio

VUCKO Tidal Motion

BUFF Motion

Art&Graft

Club Camping

Cub Studio

Academy Films

Electric Theatre Collective

Buda

Brand New School DixonBaxi Laundry

Beeple Studios

Symbolic

Work

Ravie Studio Reel

Already Been Chewed Reel

Between The Lines

Behind The Sauce

Man Orders Coffee with AR Headset

Marco Brambilla Animates the MSG Sphere for U2 Las Vegas Residency

Behind U2's Residency at Sphere Las Vegas

Meet Web 5

Coca-Cola Masterpiece

BIRTH

Ozone Trailer 

Making of 48K Followers

Buda 48K Followers

Go wide or go home—MARVEL SNAP is officially on PC

Cafe Bustelo Está Aquí

DixonBaxi Premeir League Design

Gorillaz presents… Skinny Ape (Immersive Live Performance in Times Square)

Toy Story Funday Football

Laundry Studio Vegas Sphere Launch

David Ariew Coca Cola Pour for the Las Vegas Sphere

Wanderers

Nouns

Pudgy Penguins

Wanderers Promo on X

Non_Interactive – Software & ML

Runway Samples by Rowan Cheung

Star Wars by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Galactic Menagerie

Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Whimsical Fellowship

Heavenly Vessel

 

Tools/Resources

 Premiere Gal

Block

Duolingo

Greyscalegorilla

Motion Hatch

Pictoplasma

Unreal for 3D Artists

After Effects Kickstart

Cinema 4D Basecamp

Animation Bootcamp

Cinema 4D

Unreal Engine

Adobe After Effects

Nomad Sculpt Procreate

Procreate Dreams

Stash Media Tendril & FutureDeluxe Partnership

Apple Vison

Quest Pro

NAB 2023 Motion Meetup

Dash Bash

Camp Mograph

SIGGRAPH

Procreate Dreams: The 2D Animation Revolution for Digital Artists

Why did Adobe spend 20 BILLION DOLLARS for Figma??? Project Avalanche

Unreal Engine 5's New Motion Graphic Tools Will Blow Your Mind! | Project Avalanche

Wild

Part and Sum

DAT Tour

Half-Rez

Design Joy

Motion Shop

Apple M3 Mac

Design giant Ideo cuts a third of staff and closes offices as the era of design thinking ends

After Effects feature summary (December 2023 release)

aescripts + aeplugins

Lockdown 3 for After Effects

Mask Prompter

Rubber Hose 3

Rig once, use EVERYWHERE | Rubberhose 3 Rig to EGP Workflow

Good Boy Ninja

Skew

Why are After Effects artists freaking out about Skew? | Insane new time-saving tool

 Kangaroo

How to Land Big Clients: The Art of Mograph Biz Dev with Joe Nash

AE Screens

Flow

C4D Unified Simulations

C4D Capsules

Unreal Engine Is Raising Its Prices, But There's a Catch

Fortnite

Spline

Spline in Webflow

Womp

Move.ai

Announcing the new Rive

Introducing: Procreate Dreams

NFT Go Market Overview

Grayscalegorilla Plus

Blender

Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial

Adobe Generative Fill

Zbrush for iPad

AI: An Artist's Friend or Foe? | Dan Jeffries, CIO of Stability.ai (Stable Diffusion)

Text-Based Editing in Premiere Pro

Get Better Music Tracks for Video Editing with Adobe Remix | Premiere Pro Effects for Audio

Adobe Podcast

Dall-E

Canva AI

Generate a vector graphic using a text prompt

Krea.ai

Meshy.ai

Topaz Labs

Beeble

Adobe Substance Sampler

Cascadeur

Anything.world

Tagbox

Wonder Dynamics

The Future of (Mobile) VFX: Simulon has Arrived with Divesh Naidoo

MrUgleh Post on X

Curious Refuge

Why THIS is the Future of Imagery (and Nobody Knows it Yet)

Artists Are Mad About Marvel's 'Secret Invasion' AI-Generated Opening Credits

3D Gaussian Splatting from Hollywood Films!

Luma AI

Polycam

Stable Diffusion Litigation

Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta

Vizcom

Adobe Firefly

Midjourney

Gen-2

ControlNet


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