Clankers are EDITING now?! + Rive Gets Brushes | Motion Mondays

AI assistants are finding their way into creative apps, Rive is getting closer to that Flash feeling with a new Brush Tool, and After Effects has a new trick for textured 3D type.

Get the full show notes: schoolofmotion.com/blog/motion-mondays-september-14-2026

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👉 CHAPTERS 👈
0:00 Coming Up...
0:10 Materials in AE
0:56 The MCP Explosion
2:53 SOM News
4:08 Rive Gets Brushes
5:01 Artists Building Tools
5:42 Cool Work
7:03 Copyright in Court
8:04 AI as Renderer
8:39 Kyle's Brushes
9:27 EDGY Adds Damage
9:52 Student of the Week
10:17 Cavalry Gets Grungy
10:49 That's a Wrap!

🎓 SCHOOL OF MOTION COURSES MENTIONED
School of Motion All-Access: https://schoolofmotion.com/
School of Motion Team Training: https://schoolofmotion.com/training-for-teams
AI Foundations for Motion: https://schoolofmotion.com/courses/ai-foundations-for-motion
Cinema 4D Basecamp: https://schoolofmotion.com/courses/cinema-4d-basecamp
Free trial lessons: https://schoolofmotion.com/free
SOM courses and events coming soon: https://schoolofmotion.com/coming-soon

🗒️ SHOW NOTES
After Effects materials beta: https://community.adobe.com/announcements-532/3d-materials-on-text-shapes-available-now-in-after-effects-beta-1640989
After Effects 26.5: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/desktop/what-s-new/whats-new.html
ambientCG Substance materials: https://ambientcg.com/list?type=substance
Spenser Dickerson's Blender gymnasium: https://x.com/spenserfx/status/2097439078866166018
DaVinci Resolve 21.1 official demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi44XLKQ3YA
Atom for After Effects: https://tryatom.ai/
Rive brush preview: https://x.com/HelloJcToon/status/2095971597454807152
Rive rigging updates: https://x.com/rive_app/status/2097052461374607835
Rive GPU Canvas: https://x.com/rive_app/status/2095582023058432213
Nemo: https://nemomotion.org/
OpenAI / New York Times copyright case: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-new-york-times-case-tees-up-key-test-ai-training-under-copyright-law-2026-09-08/
Womp neural rendering: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriela-trueba_neural-3d-rendering-live-on-womp-ugcPost-7498482223223001088-x1Pf/
Kyle Webster's Procreate brush lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoDL-pVT8wU
EDGY for Cinema 4D and Blender: https://corneliusdammrich.gumroad.com/l/edgy
Analog FX Lab for Cavalry: https://aescripts.com/analog-fx-lab/

🎨 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
James Ramirez / Alma Mater, Into the Spider-Verse: https://framerate.tv/studies/yGEJMkPj
Hocus Pocus, The Bayeux Tapestry: https://www.hocuspocus.studio/work/bayeux-tapestry-british-museum
Territory Studio, Call of Duty Black Ops 7: https://motionographer.com/quickie/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-territory-studio/
Ingi Erlingsson / SYSTMS Lab: https://www.systms.ai/lab
SOM Student of the Week - Johannes Kunert: https://hub.schoolofmotion.com/c/student-showcase/cinema-4d-basecamp-the-ultimate-test-d81292-9199539b-da6b-466f-b72a-054fcaf59425
Johannes Kunert, portfolio: https://johannes-kunert.de/