Good morning. Adobe “Project Neo” just shipped its biggest update yet, adding a pen tool, fluid vectors, and 2D/3D layer mixing — tools that blur the line between illustration and motion design.
Meanwhile, Magnific brought its Precision upscaler to video, which is what a lot of creators using Kling, Seedance, and real footage have been waiting for.
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In today's issue:
Project Neo adds a pen tool, fluid vectors, 2D layers, and multi-object editing.
Remotion ships light leaks, a free sound effects library, Vercel rendering, and a visual mode sneak peek.
Magnific brings Precision upscaling to video, with up to 4K output and FPS boost.
TOP STORY
✏️ Adobe releases "Project Neo's biggest update yet"
Adobe Project Neo just shipped its most significant update to date, adding a pen tool, fluid vectors, 2D/3D layer mixing, multi-object editing, and direct copy-to-clipboard as SVG or PNG.
Project Neo is Adobe's free browser-based design tool that lets illustrators and designers create dimensional artwork without needing to learn traditional 3D software.
Here's what's new:
Pen tool: You can now draw freeform curves directly in Neo, with full control point behavior and live visual feedback as you build paths. Shapes drawn in the 2D layer can also be converted directly to 3D (no more round-tripping through Illustrator to get custom organic shapes into your scene).
Fluid vectors: A new 2D artboard mode lets you blend shapes together with Neo's signature blend feature, creating smooth, organic compositions that would previously have taken considerable manual effort.
Motion layers for fluid shapes: The same motion system that works on 3D objects (wiggle, bounce, etc.) now applies to 2D fluid shapes, making animated organic backgrounds straightforward to produce.
Multi-object property editing: You can now select multiple objects and change their color, material, or style in one action. This sounds small but changes how fast you can work on complex scenes.
Copy as SVG or PNG: Right-click any artwork and copy it directly to your clipboard as an SVG or PNG (ready to paste straight into Illustrator, Photoshop, or anywhere else).
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VIDEO EDITING
🔍 Magnific releases "Precision for Video”
Magnific AI (the AI upscaler acquired by Freepik in 2024) just launched “Precision for Video,” now available inside Freepik's Video Upscaler.
Precision mode was previously only available for photos — now it's coming to video, keeping your footage completely faithful to the original while boosting resolution up to 4K.
Magnific Precision Video is available now exclusively on Freepik and Magnific. It's designed specifically for realistic footage (e.g. live action, Kling, Seedance, and similar outputs) where stylistic enhancements aren't what you want.
What’s possible with Magnific Precision for VIdeo:
Up to 4K output: Every texture, strand, and surface preserved at higher resolution.
12-frame preview: Test your settings on a single clip before committing to the full render, so you're not burning credits on guesswork.
Full manual control: Adjust sharpness, grain, and enhancement strength independently.
FPS boost: Smooth out motion without touching the visual quality.
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MOTION DESIGN
🎬 Remotion releases Light Leaks, Sounds Effects, and Visual Mode Preview
Remotion just dropped a new update, adding native light leak effects, a free sound library, first-class Vercel rendering support, and a sneak peek at an upcoming “Visual Mode.”
If you're unfamiliar with it: Remotion is a framework for creating videos programmatically with code. It gives you the full power of web technologies (e.g. CSS, SVG, WebGL, animations) applied to video production.
Remotion is popular with developers and technical creators who want to automate or templatize video creation at scale.
Here’s what’s new:
Light Leaks: A new native component that generates procedural, WebGL-based light leak effects. Infinite variations, any color, and it comes with a companion skill for using it as a scene transition.
Sound effects library: Remotion is building its own free sound effects library (no attribution required).
Faster rendering: Remotion now renders server-side on Vercel via a new starter template, and a new opt-in bundler makes exports up to 2x faster with quicker canvas previews as you work.
Better agent support: If you're using Claude Code or a similar tool to vibe-code a video, several friction points have been removed (e.g., duplicate Studio instance prevention, a cleaned-up lockfile error, and Zod 4 support).
Visual Mode: Remotion is prototyping a Visual Mode for the Studio that lets you interactively edit your video while writing everything back as regular React code. More previews coming as they progress.
📰 Other news you might've missed
Figma for Education verified users now have access to on-canvas AI tools.
Figma now allows you to mute tabs playing audio directly from the tab bar or menu.
Pomelli from Google Labs now supports Photoshoot (turn any product photo into on-brand studio imagery) and Animate (bring those visuals to life as video). Both are free in beta.
Notion AI Meeting Notes now run in the background, allowing you to switch apps or lock your screen, and your notes keep going. Available on iOS and Android.
Recraft added video generation to Recraft Studio, allowing you to edit on canvas and animate with Kling, Grok, Veo, Sora, and other top models, all in one place.
Midjourney added Relax mode for V8 and shipped a new SREF/Moodboards version that's 4x faster, 4x cheaper, supports HD mode, personalization, and --stylize.
YouTube is rolling out a new mobile search grid that surfaces Shorts for travel and shopping queries, plus expanded gifts and more.
Replit now integrates with Granola, allowing you to use your meeting notes as context to build anything, like a journal powered by your recent calls.
Replit is running a limited-time offer: gift a friend a month of Agent 4 Core and you both get a month free.
FLORA added support for Arrow 1.0, allowing you to turn any idea, text, or image into SVGs directly inside Flora.
FLORA now allows you to expand and collapse text nodes on the canvas.
Rive shipped “Editor 0.8.4450” with a new View Model data table, more real estate in the State Machine UI, tags for Timelines and Listeners, and multi-event support on individual Listeners.
HeyGen is now live on Runware, expanding where you can use HeyGen's avatar and video generation capabilities.
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