📹️ Google releases “Veo 2” and “Imagen 3”

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

• Branded Bills: Create custom hats and merch for your brand.*

• Luma Dream Machine: Create seasonal cards of your family & friends (Tutorial).*

• PremiumBeat: 18 animated gritty textures for your videos & designs (Free resource).

• Figma: Create a gingerbread house design in Figma (Free resource).

• Synthflow: Build a no-code AI phone call system with our AI voice agents.*

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TOP STORY
📹️ Google releases “Veo 2” and “Imagen 3”

This week, Google unveiled “Veo 2,” its advanced video-generation AI (and the best we’ve seen), which aims to outshine OpenAI's Sora (read about Sora here).

• Veo 2 can produce 4K videos and 2+ minutes long (surpassing Sora's 1080p and 20-second limits).

• Understands camera controls in prompts (e.g., wide shot, POV shots, drone shot).

• Better at creating real-world physics and realistic human expression.

• Currently available in “VideoFX,” but clips are limited to 720p and 8 seconds (expanded access will roll out soon).

Here are some examples of what you can create with Veo 2 👇

Google updated its “Imagen 3” image model, making it better at showing details and sticking to styles.

Both tools are gradually rolling out, with Veo 2 accessible through VideoFX in the U.S.

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3D/4D DESIGN
🍩 Spline releases “Shape Blend”

This week, Spline launched “Shape Blend,” a groundbreaking 3D modeling feature combining Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) with its polygonal-based system.

Shape Blend enables smooth blending, union, subtraction, and intersection of shapes—operations that traditional polygonal modeling software (e.g., Blender, Cinema 4D, Autodesk) makes more complex.

Spline is available for free and works directly in your browser.

Here are some examples of what users have created 👇️ 

Watch this in-depth tutorial on how to use 3D shape blending in Spline 👇️ 

VIDEO EDITING
🎉 Screen Studio releases v3.0

This week, Screen Studio, an indie project by Adam (who’s building public), released v3.0 with some neat updates.

Here’s everything new that was released:

• 🖇️ Shareable Links: Create and share links to your recordings in one click.

• 🖱️ Custom Cursors: Choose from new cursor styles.

• 💻 Dynamic Camera Layouts: Switch between a fullscreen camera and your screen recording.

• ⏩️ Speed Up Typing: Auto-detect parts of a screen recording and suggests speeding them up.

• ⌨️ Command Menu: Access quick actions with just your keyboard.

• ⚡️Export Multiple Projects: You can now export multiple projects simultaneously.

• 📣 Quick Share Widget: Quickly access and share your records that don’t require edits.

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📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Framer released “Framer Wrapped” for its top 10,000 users.

• Midjourney released “Moodboards,” allowing you to personalize your models using collections of images.

• Meta released “Meta Video Seal,” a state-of-the-art framework for neural video watermarking.

• Midjourney is allowing users to create unlimited creations in relax mode for the rest of 2024.

  KREA AI now supports custom training in the Krea Editor.

• Suno released a Student plan that provides Pro access for 50% off.

• Udio gifted all accounts free song-generation credits for the holidays.

• Epidemic Sound released “Create Versions,” a new feature that allows you to cut, loop, or spotlight the best parts of a song effortlessly.

• Tella released a new ultra-fast exporter, playlist improvements, faster editing, and teams!

• Restream added a TikTok Live integration, allowing you to stream to TikTok without needing stream keys.

• Cap is hiring a founding designer, sales lead, and SEO lead.

• Freepik released “Adjust,” allowing you to fine-tune every aspect of your creations and save them as presets.

• Procreate Dreams released a new patch that improves thumbnail previews in the “Theatre” and fixes issues with “Performing” and keyframes, dual-brush handling, and Recovery points.

• Luma Dream Machine released “Concept Pills,” a new feature to help you brainstorm ideas endlessly.

• Notion “Sites” now allow you to shorten and customize slugs.

• ElevenLabs released a new model that generates speech in 75ms.

• Webflow released new form enhancements, including viewing form fields in settings, searching in the notifications dropdown, and improving UX.

• Freepik is now available in Chinese.

• Artlist Max is 10% off for the holidays.

• Runway announced the “Runway Talent Network,” a new media platform to discover and hire creatives and companies.

• LottieFiles released an all-new plugin for Adobe After Effects that includes SVG & Lottie to AE import, expressions support, bulk rendering, and optimized exports.

• Canva released a new Disney collection, which includes assets and templates.

• Riverside released “Brand Kit,” allowing you to save and apply your brand settings to future videos.

• Leonardo.Ai released a new “Flux + Phoenix 1.0” model.

• Riveo now has a lifetime purchase offer.

• KREA AI added object and brush selections in its editor.

• Jitter released “Curved Paths,” allowing you to move objects along a curved path.

• Magnific released “Super Real,” a state-of-the-art generator for realistic images.

• DaVinci Resolve added better playback of audio fades on clips with effects, improved handling of Open EXR metadata, and more reliable dongle recognition on Windows.

• Restream released “Custom Layouts,” allowing you to resize, reshape, and align every stream to look how you want.

• Rive released “Auto Bezier” for the Graph Editor, allowing you to smooth cubic curves automatically.

• Framer released a new “Asset Panel,” making managing your Components, Styles, and Code much easier.

• Webflow improved CMS drafting and publishing workflow, allowing you to safely draft updates, share previews, and publish single items.

• Luma Dream Machine now lets you track your credits and buy packs of 1,200 top-up credits.

• Webflow now supports uploading .well-known files directly through the Asset Manager.