April 2026 Release

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Luuk de Bruin

 

The April Release of Motion Studio lands with Sketchpad, expanded Resolve Easings, and a new alignment tool.

⩥ Sketchpad: Animated Drawing
Record and draw real-time Sketches for instant assets + no rendering time. Layers, a timeline and more on the way


⩥ New Tool: Align
A new system of helpful visual alignment and ordering tools. Align supports keyframes and existing animations (unlike native After Effects align tools) and more.


⩥ New Tool: Distribute
Distribute layers automatically or, manually increment pixel spacing.


⩥ New Tool: Arrange
Fit and organize layers to Compositions, Grids, Rows, Columns and more.


⩥ New Boombox SFX pack: Overworld
All your favorite pocket monsters are energetic and alive in the giant new Sound Pack for Boombox.


⩥ Resolve Easings expanded
New easing and animation tools for: Offset, Reverse, Distribute, Scale, Excite, and Jump. Undo and Redo is also now available for DaVinci integrations.

⩥ Text-Break: Text Layer mode
Text-Break can now split text by line, word or character, while also keeping the text editable or, converted to vector.

⩥ Backup & Restore
Move Motion Studio data between workstations. Export a complete backup from one machine, restore your full settings, libraries and preferences.

⩥ Palette Editing in the Extension
The palette edit screen returns to the Motion Studio extension. A large revamp of the Color Suite is slotted to release with the new ‘Live Color’ system.

Bug fixes
Deep edge cases and dusty bugs resolved.

⩥ User Hall-of-Fame
Special thanks to the users below for helping improve Motion Studio with great suggestions on Futures:

🏅Cyan Cooper — Align
🏅Iakovos Krispis — Backup & Restore