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TOP STORY
🎉 Webflow makes “GSAP” 100% free

This week, Webflow announced that the GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) is now completely free for everyone, following their acquisition of the tool in late 2024.

• What is GSAP? GSAP is a powerful animation library that allows designers to effortlessly animate practically anything — this includes scrolling, morphing, text animations, and creating polished UI interactions.

• Previously, GSAP operated on a freemium model, and the paid GSAP memberships would cost developers anywhere from $99 to several hundred dollars annually, depending on the plan and team size.

GSAP is widely recognized for powering animations on a vast number of websites, with sources citing its use on over 12 million sites, including more than 50% of award-winning websites, as of recent estimates.

The update includes:

• Full access to GSAP and all previously paid Club plugins, like SplitText and ScrollTrigger, at zero cost.

• An expanded standard license allowing commercial use without restrictions.

• Seamless integration of GSAP plugins into Webflow’s ecosystem, hosted directly for easy use.

• 14 new features in total, including an improved SplitText plugin.

This move levels up web animation for developers and designers, making it easier to build dynamic, engaging websites without breaking the bank.

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VIDEO PRODUCTION
🤯 Runway releases “Gen-4 References”

Runway has rolled out “Gen-4 References,” a game-changing feature for its AI video generation platform, now available to all paid plans.

This tool lets creators use up to three reference images to maintain consistent characters, locations, and styles across multiple video outputs, solving a major pain point in AI-driven creation.

With Gen-4 References, you can:

• Upload a single image to keep a character’s look consistent across different angles, lighting, or outfits.

• Combine multiple references for complex scenes, blending characters and environments seamlessly.

• Generate dynamic 5-second or 10-second video clips with realistic motion, using natural language prompts to describe camera movements or actions.

This feature makes it easier than ever to craft cohesive narratives, whether you’re storyboarding a short film or designing a branded campaign.

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MUSIC
🎶 Suno releases “v4.5”

This week, Suno dropped v4.5 for Pro and Premier users, pushing AI music creation to new heights.

This update delivers more expressive music, with richer vocals, smarter genre blending, and a prompt enhancement helper that turns vague ideas into detailed song instructions.

Here’s what’s new in v4.5:

• You can now create songs in more genres and generate different types of mashups (e.g., blending styles like Midwest emo + neosoul or EDM).

• There are now more complex, textured sounds with layered instruments and sonic details (e.g., prompts like “leaf textures” or “melodic whistling”).

• A new prompt enhancement helper to transform vague ideas into fully-formed prompts.

• A new “Covers + Personas” feature that allows users to create Covers while retaining melodic detail and similar styles with “Personas.”

• Generate songs up to 8 minutes long, up from 4 minutes, without using Extend.

Here’s a cool example of their new genre-blending feature 👇️ 

OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞️ 

Instagram Edits released 7 million downloads in its first week, surpassing CapCut’s initial launch.

ElevenLabs launched “Sound Effects” in Studio, enabling users to use their text-to-SFX model directly in their long-form editor.

Descript released “Avatars,“ allowing users to create an entire video by typing, without going near a camera.

Midjourney released “Omni-Reference,” a new feature that allows users to integrate specific characters, objects, vehicles, and more into AI-generated images by uploading a reference image.

Higgsfield AI released “Iconic Scenes,” allowing users to re-create legendary movie movements using their own images as input.

Relume teamed up with 4 popular designer creators to bring their font collections straight into Relume.

Adobe Photoshop’s “Reflection Removal” feature now works with .jpg images.

KREA AI now allows users to render their 3D scenes with OpenAI’s “GPT-4o” model.

Canva released a new Star Wars™️ collection, which includes new design assets and templates.

Gamma released “AI Image Editing” with animation, allowing users to edit and animate any image directly in Gamma.

KREA AI released a new image enhancer and new integrations with Topaz Labs, allowing users to upscale images up to 22K resolution.

Framer now supports “REM,” a font-size unit based on a default value that allows you to design type scales relative to that base value and make more responsive designs.

Suno will soon allow users to create clearer genre mashups.

Suno will be releasing “Cover with Personas,” a new feature that allows users to create covers of a specific song with custom “Personas” (voices).

Meta released a standalone “Meta AI app,” allowing users to access image generation features and more without using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, or Messenger.

Midjourney released improvements to its V7 model with improved image quality & coherence, a new lightbox editor, and a new experimental aesthetics parameter (--exp).

Higgsfield AI announced the “Higgsfield API,” now live in Beta.

Contra has partnered with Bolt, allowing users to hire a Bolt expert or apply to become one.

KREA AI released “GPT Presets,” allowing users to apply popular image styles in seconds.

Luma AI released “Ray2 Camera Concepts API," allowing developers to access camera controls for cinematic framing and dynamic movement.

Tella released new updates in April: collaborative editing, support for .mov & HDR uploads, password-protected playlists, and Mac app UI improvements.

Blender 4.4.3 was released, and it fixes 7 critical issues found in the previous release.

Pika released a new “Pikaaffect” that allows users to swap their hair.

Higgsfield AI released “Start & End Frames,” allowing users to upload a starting and ending image to define how their video is structured.

KREA AI released “GPT Paint,” a new feature that allows users to edit marks, basic shapes, notes, and reference images visually.

Play’s Simulator for macOS now allows users to design and prototype for any screen size: Tablet, Automotive, HMIs, Wearables.

Midjourney deployed V7 speed-ups and a new default “fast mode,” making standard V7 jobs ~2x cheaper and turbo jobs 30% faster.

Recraft now allows users to upscale, edit, recolor, remove backgrounds, create mockups, and more with OpenAI’s latest image model, directly in Recraft.

Relume now allows users to preview Premium fonts directly in their designs.

ElevenLabs released “Multi-seat Workspaces” for everyone on Scale and Business plans.

Freepik has added support for “Ideogram 3.0,” an AI model known for its amazing text quality and logo creation.

Freepik released 5 new styles in its “AI Image Generator:” vitro, red everywhere, fablelines, baroque, and pink history.

Rive released “BYOB" (Bring Your Own Bucket), a new Enterprise feature that allows users to store their Rive files at rest in their own AWS S3 buckets, instead of Rive’s infrastructure.

ElevenLabs released a new European data residency for Enterprise customers.

FLORA now supports the “Ideogram 3.0” AI model.

Leonardo.Ai released a new “Vibrant Iridescene Painting” element.