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Good night. Canva is making Cavalry, the 2D motion design app, completely free for anyone with a Canva account, joining Affinity under the same login.
Also: HeyGen just open-sourced HyperFrames, a framework that turns HTML into MP4 video, built with AI agents in mind.
MOTION DESIGN
🎬 Canva makes “Cavalry” free for everyone
Canva is making Cavalry Pro, the 2D motion design app, completely free for anyone with a Canva account.
The old Starter vs. Pro tier split has been scrapped, and the full £192/year Pro feature set is now included with every free Canva login (alongside Affinity).
Canva acquired Cavalry back in February, following its 2024 Affinity acquisition.
Today's move mirrors the Affinity playbook. Canva made that suite completely free in October 2025, resulting in 5+ million downloads.
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🎥 HeyGen open-sources "HyperFrames"
This entire video was created by chatting with AI
HeyGen released HyperFrames, an open-source framework that turns HTML into MP4 video. The team built their own product launch video with it inside Claude Code, and is now sharing the full source for anyone to use.
MOTION DESIGN
🎨 Maxon brings back "Autograph" for free
Maxon, the company behind Cinema 4D and Redshift, just announced that its 2D motion graphics tool, Autograph, is back and free for individuals.
The drop is part of a wider day of news that also revealed Cinema 4D is coming to iPad.
Note: Cinema 4D for iPad doesn't have a release date yet. Maxon plans to demo it (alongside Autograph and Windows on Arm support) at NAB and OFFF this spring.
Autograph was originally pitched as a serious After Effects competitor when it first launched, before going quiet.
Now it's back, free for individual creators, and rejoining the Maxon family alongside Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, and Forger.
📰 Other news you might’ve missed:
Google rolled out a new side-by-side search experience in Chrome, letting you open webpages alongside AI Mode without losing your search context.
Google Gemini added Personal Intelligence with Nano Banana 2, giving Gemini an understanding of your preferences and interests when generating images.
Google Stitch added native image generation and the ability to copy screens across projects, so you can ask the agent to drop custom logos directly into your UI.
OpenAI updated Codex with major upgrades, letting it use Mac apps, generate images, learn from past actions, remember your preferences, and take on recurring tasks.
CapCut brought Dreamina Seedance 2.0 to 1080p across app, web, and desktop for sharper, more cinematic AI video. (Both CapCut and Seedance are owned by ByteDance.)
Notion added Claude Opus 4.7 for multi-step workflows, citing fewer tokens used and 3× fewer tool errors than Opus 4.6.
Perplexity released Personal Computer for the Mac app, letting Perplexity orchestrate across your local files, native apps, and browser. Available now to all Max subscribers and waitlist users.
Perplexity also made Claude Opus 4.7 the default orchestration model in Personal Computer, plus on web, iOS, and Android for Max subscribers.
Runway brought Seedance 2.0 to 1080p for higher-detail AI video generation.
Runway also rolled out scripts for Characters, letting you bring any character to life by typing in a line of dialogue.
Runway made Seedance 2.0 available via API for developers building on top of the platform.
HeyGen added Seedance 2.0 in 1080p, keeping the same multi-character motion with sharper full-HD output.
ElevenLabs launched ElevenLabs Devs, a new YouTube channel for AI engineers with deep dives on Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and ElevenAgents.
Luma announced Innovative Dreams, a new production company built with Wonder Project. Its first film, "Moses" starring Sir Ben Kingsley, comes this Spring on Prime Video.
Rive brought its native Apple runtime out of experimental, with a faster, multi-threaded, Swift-first version for shipping interactive Rive animations into iOS, macOS, and visionOS apps.
Lovable added Claude Opus 4.7 support, with internal benchmarks showing tasks complete in 40% fewer turns. Builders get discounted rates through April 30.
v0 added Opus 4.7, with 50% off for the next two weeks.
bolt added Opus 4.7 to its app builder, calling it the highest-scoring model they've clocked on long, complex builds.
Replit released Replit AI Storyboard for spinning up viral video concepts in minutes, ready to hand off to UGC creators.
Freepik added Seedance 2.0 in 1080p for higher-detail AI video generation.
Krea introduced Seedance Effects, a new library for applying motion and style effects to any video with a single click.
Higgsfield rolled out Seedance 2.0 in 1080p across all Higgsfield features.
Captions launched Property videos, turning any real estate listing into a beautifully-staged, professionally edited video with one click.
Redshift released 2026.5.0 with a brand-new night sky model (moon, stars, Milky Way), UDIM displacement support, and improved UV projection tiling.
Flow Studio added Trellis 2.0, letting you turn text or images into 3D models fast and iterate on form without slowing down.
StreamYard rolled out custom QR codes with brand colors, logos, and text. Available on all plans.
MagicPath added Opus 4.7, with strong early results on long design tasks, image-to-code, and reusable React components.
Pencil introduced Code on Canvas, an AI design tool that lets Claude and Codex generate custom design tools and interactive components on the fly.
Quiver released Arrow 1.1 and Arrow 1.1 Max for structured vector generation, with up to 33% lower SVG generation cost.
Base44 connected Superagents to iMessage, letting you get things done without leaving your blue-bubble chats.
Circle released Circle MCP, letting you connect your community to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini for member lookups, post queueing, thread analysis, course building, and 100+ other actions.
Adam added Opus 4.7 to its design tool.
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