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Figma Motion supports shader prompts with canvas handles in beta
Creator testing around Figma Motion now shows shader prompts, canvas handles, and keyframe retiming in the beta, alongside a detailed tutorial. Designers can keep more motion polish inside Figma before handing work to separate animation or code tools.

Runway launches Agent 2.0 for briefs, campaign assets, and performance analysis
Runway introduced Agent 2.0 to turn a prompt into marketing briefs, creative assets, and performance analysis across platforms and markets. Try it if you want campaign planning and iteration inside one workflow instead of separate tools.

Figma launches MCP connectors for Figma agent
Figma added MCP connectors so the Figma agent can reach apps like GitHub, Slack, Notion, Atlassian, Granola, Hex, and Dovetail. Testers can start trying connected code and video workflows as the beta rolls out.


Figma Motion supports shader prompts with canvas handles in beta
Creator testing around Figma Motion now shows shader prompts, canvas handles, and keyframe retiming in the beta, alongside a detailed tutorial. Designers can keep more motion polish inside Figma before handing work to separate animation or code tools.

Midjourney releases V8.2 Preview with --preview and 24x faster --sref random drafts
Midjourney opened V8.2 Preview behind the --preview flag and sped up --sref random draft generation by 24x. Use it to test style directions faster before committing to high-resolution variations.

Figma Weave adds 20+ in-app AI tools and reusable node workflows
Figma Weave now exposes 20+ AI tools inside the desktop app and adds reusable node workflows for repeatable pipelines. Creators can use it to standardize illustration work, while full Figma frame embedding still appears to be coming soon.

Runway launches Agent 2.0 for briefs, campaign assets, and performance analysis
Runway introduced Agent 2.0 to turn a prompt into marketing briefs, creative assets, and performance analysis across platforms and markets. Try it if you want campaign planning and iteration inside one workflow instead of separate tools.
Wan-Streamer v0.1 opens real-time video agents with live voice demos
Adobe opens free Content Credentials web access for creator provenance
Claude Tag supports ambient Slack triage and bot-alert auto-replies
Figma launches MCP connectors for Figma agent
Top storiesthis week
Figma launches Motion with timeline editing and MP4, WebM, GIF export
Figma Motion adds animation editing inside the design file with a collaborative timeline and exports to MP4, WebM, GIF, and code. Use it to keep common UI and launch-film motion work in Figma instead of handing it off to another tool.


Seedance 2.0 4K turns viewport previews into final anime and cinematic shots
Higgsfield and creators showed Seedance 2.0 4K converting viewport previews, greybox previs, and storyboard frames into finished anime and cinematic shots. Try it if you need camera moves and blocking to survive the jump from rough 3D planning to final renders.

Runway launches ad localization for one-image, any-language variants
Runway released ad localization that turns a single image into market-specific variants across languages. Use it to keep multilingual ad production inside one creative tool instead of rebuilding assets for each region.

OpenArt Director launches 5-minute video generation with characters, voiceovers, music, and captions
OpenArt rolled out Director as a conversational video mode that can generate projects up to 5 minutes with recurring characters, props, voiceovers, music, captions, and templates. The release pushes the product toward full sequence assembly inside one tool instead of short demo clips.

Claude Tag opens Slack beta for Team and Enterprise with memory and proactive follow-ups
Anthropic opened Claude Tag in Slack beta for Team and Enterprise plans, giving channels a persistent Claude with memory, tools, and self-scheduled follow-ups. The setup lets teams test whether an always-on assistant can handle ongoing workflow work, not just one-off replies.
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Claude Code
25th JuneClaude Tag supports ambient Slack triage and bot-alert auto-replies
Anthropic documentation and user threads show Claude Tag can watch Slack channels ambiently and auto-reply to Datadog or Sentry-style alerts without explicit tags. That matters for production teams because bug triage, legal review, and ops handoffs can run inside shared channels.
Seedance
24th JuneSeedance 2.0 4K turns viewport previews into final anime and cinematic shots
Higgsfield and creators showed Seedance 2.0 4K converting viewport previews, greybox previs, and storyboard frames into finished anime and cinematic shots. Try it if you need camera moves and blocking to survive the jump from rough 3D planning to final renders.
Open Source
24th JuneKrea 2 Turbo community releases GGUF ports: RTX 3090 tests report 1.9x int8 speedups
Builders published GGUF conversions, loader nodes, and local benchmarks for Krea 2 Turbo after yesterday’s open-weights release, alongside new multi-style and watercolor tests. The follow-up matters because creators now have clearer ways to run, tune, and style-push Krea locally on smaller VRAM budgets.
Adobe Firefly
23rd JuneAdobe Firefly Boards supports 100+ artists in 'Gallery of the Future' collaboration
Organizers say Gallery of the Future brought 100+ artists and filmmakers onto one Firefly Board, with 50,000 views and a planned zine and exhibition follow-up. The project turned Boards into a real large-scale co-creation test, while participants flagged desktop-only use, character limits, and heavy-file handling as practical constraints.
Prompt of the day

Gemini Omni adds reference-to-prompt video restyles with a 10-second cap
Creators are using Gemini Omni to read a reference design and generate a final prompt for another video model while preserving face, voice, lip sync, and gestures. Use it to separate style translation from generation, but plan around the current 10-second output limit.

Claude Opus 4.8 builds one-prompt animated landing pages in creator demos
Creators published prompt stacks showing Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.1 Pro building animated hero sections and full landing pages, with Fable-era demos supplying longer asset maps. The workflow pushes AI web design beyond wireframes into motion, media choreography, and inspectable front-end polish.







