You Can Now Talk to Photoshop?! And An Animation Industry Health Check | Motion Mondays

Photoshop’s upcoming agentic AI, a temperature check on the animation industry, and an easy way to create product animations. Check out the corresponding blog post here: http://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/motion-mondays-april-21-2025 🚨 IMPORTANT: School of Motion All-Access is coming in just one week. Find out more at schoolofmotion.com/som-aa This week, Discover Rive's powerful new Data Binding feature that connects UI elements to data without any coding knowledge. Get the scoop on Octane 2025.1's impressive updates with Silverwing's comprehensive breakdown, and check out Premiere Gal’s tutorial on easy product animations. Also, ByteDance unveils OmniHuman, a lip-sync AI that creates realistic expressions from a single image, Howard Pinsky gives us a peek at the future where you can literally talk to Photoshop, and the Collision Awards report reveals an uptick in the demand for animation work. Plus, we showcase stunning work from Tendril's IBM piece and Sehsucht's handcrafted animations for ZDF. 👉 CHAPTERS 👈 00:00 Coming Up… 00:23 Data Driven - Rive Makes UI Magic 01:23 Octane Upgrade - Silverwing's Render Roundup 02:28 Mastery Showcase - Community Brilliance Abounds 05:18 Firefly Fast - Premier Gal's Product Animation 06:48 Lip Service - ByteDance's OmniHuman Breakthrough 07:52 All Access - SOM's Biggest Change Ever 08:38 Demo Duel - Dash Bash Competition Closing Soon 09:21 Student Spotlight - Robert's 3D Design Triumph 10:18 Talk to Photoshop with AI - Robert's 3D Design Triumph 11:44 Industry Pulse - Collision Awards Trend Report 🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED School of Motion Team Training: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/training-for-teams School of Motion All-Access: https://schoolofmotion.com/all-access Cinema 4D Basecamp: https://schoolofmotion.com/courses/cinema-4d-basecamp 🗒️ SHOW NOTES Rive Data Binding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuRgZJYNOE Silverwing - Octane 2025.1 New Features: https://youtu.be/flEH2OShqQc?si=aR5nPWDGCToNwkZE Premiere Gal - Create Product Animations with Adobe PPro and Firefly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34otBAb6YX8 ByteDance OmniHuman-1: https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/ School of Motion All-Access is coming in one week: https://schoolofmotion.com/blog/som-aa Dash Bash Demo Duel - https://www.dashbash.net/demo-duel Dash Bash tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/2D0060A7D9477B17 Creative Bloq - Talk to Adobe Photoshop: https://www.creativebloq.com/tech/adobe-says-well-soon-be-able-to-chat-with-photoshop Collision Awards - Animation & Motion Design Report: https://collisionawards.com/animation-in-motion-report/ Blender Auto Focus Camera addon: https://blender-addons.gumroad.com/l/blender_auto_focus_camera Modular animation system for Unreal Engine: https://80.lv/articles/motionrig-custom-modular-procedural-animation-system-for-ue5/ 🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Tendril - IBM project: https://x.com/studiotendril/status/1912166396693217359?s=46&t=J0TQvTEMb7UOKrKRu5qAgA Sehsucht - ZDF project: https://sehsucht.de/zdf-fruehling/ Kensyouen_Y - Breaking Blender’s 4th wall: https://80.lv/articles/watch-two-anime-girls-throwing-ui-elements-at-each-other-in-this-fourth-wall-breaking-animation/ Heist - 2025 Motion Reel: https://vimeo.com/1073620019 SOM Student of the Week - Robert-Pregardt-Paur: https://community.schoolofmotion.com/student-showcase/post/cinema-4d-basecamp---featuring-robert-pregardt-paur-ZwZpsGwZEegSyiA Robert’s Portfolio: https://www.robpregardt.com/work/3d