🎨 Relume releases “Style Guide Builder”

PLUS: Oscar-winning film was created with “Blender,” Freepik releases “Colors,” and more.

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Steven Van & Steven Van
March 09, 2025 • Reading Time: 13 minutes

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

  • beehiiv: A free website & newsletter builder with built-in monetization + growth tools for creators.*

  • Lulu: A book publishing service that allows you to grow your brand and audience while keeping 100% of your profit.*

  • Gling: A free, AI-powered video editing tool that automatically removes bad takes, silence, filler words, and more.*

  • Blender: A free, open source 3D modelling and animation tool.

  • Refero: A free web design and iOS library for UX/UI inspiration (featuring real-life products).

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TOP STORY
✨ Relume releases “Style Guide Builder”

This week, Relume (a new design startup) launched a “Style Guide Builder,” a tool aimed to help users create websites and design concepts quickly by generating style guides with AI.

The Style Guide Builder allows users to apply the brand assets the AI generates (e.g., color palettes, typography, and styles) directly to a homepage, with the option to shuffle through different combinations.

Shuffling through colors and typography

There’s also options to export these guides to popular platforms like Figma and Webflow, with React support expected soon.

The feature was first released in beta last November, but is now available to all users.

Exporting to Figma and Webflow

Here’s how fast you can build a website with Relume 👇️ 

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ANIMATION
🏆️ Oscar-winning film was created with “Blender”

This week, "Flow" (directed by Gints Zilbalodis) won the Oscar for “Best Animated Feature,” winning over films from billion dollar giants Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks.

The craziest part? This film was created entirely using Blender, a free, open-source 3D modelling and animation tool (!!!) 🤯

  • Starting in 2019, Zilbalodis switched to Blender for its real-time renderer EEVEE, which accelerated production despite limited resources.

  • The team even developed custom tools within Blender, like add-ons for water effects and stylized fur, turning technical constraints into a distinctive watercolor-like aesthetic that captivated audiences and critics alike.

  • The small indie team also was nominated for “Best International Feature Film” at the Oscars and won “Best Animated Feature Film” at the Golden Globes.

With a budget of just $3.7 million, Flow beat out Disney’s “Inside Out 2” ($200m budget) and Dreamworks’ “The Wild Robot” ($78m budget).

Here’s a 1 hour breakdown on how Flow was animated 👇️ 

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🎨 Freepik releases “Colors”

Freepik (a leading platform for graphic resources), released a new AI feature called "Colors," allowing users to generate images using specific HEX color codes.

This features is great for users who want to main brand consistency throughout projects and match colors precisely.

The feature is part of the Freepik AI Suite, which includes tools like Magnific’s Upscaler and Ideogram, which can also be useful for photo-realistic image creation.

This feature is currently only available for Freepik Premium and Premium+ users.

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Here, have some jet fuel

Your newsletter, now exiting the stratosphere.

We’re beehiiv, the newsletter platform built for builders. Every product we drop and feature we create is made with one goal in mind: exponential growth. 

Our three founders left Morning Brew to bring the tools and tech to creators everywhere that helped turn their old company into a multi-million dollar operation. So when we say we can take you from “up-and-comer” to household name, we mean it.

If you need a beautiful destination for your content, use our no-code website builder. If you want paid subs, we don’t take a dime. If you want big name sponsors, we connect you with the likes of Nike and Netflix. 

In short: maybe your newsletter is stuck on the ground floor because your newsletter platform is stuck in the last decade. 

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

  • Framer released four new free fonts: ARK-ES, Open Runde, Destra, and Berzulis Pizius.

  • Webflow announced a partnership with Dribbble to launch a marketplace for Webflow designers.

  • Pika’s “Pikadditions” and “Pikaswaps” feature is now available in 1080p.

  • KREA AI released new features including the ability to change video regions, add AI elements, interpolate frames, mix images, and more.

  • ElevenLabs allows users to control the speed of AI-generated voices, now available in ElevenLabs TTS, Studio, Conversational AI, and API.

  • ElevenLabs partnered with Google Cloud to bring its voice AI capabilities to Enterprise, now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace.

  • Captions announced a partnership with ElevenLabs to enable users to dub videos into different languages, choose from professional-quality voices, and clone voices.

  • Framer now allows users to access the “Framer Marketplace” directly in the Framer app.

  • HeyGen released “Voice Design,” allowing users to design the perfect AI voice by describing it with text prompts.

  • Visual Electric released “Retexture,” a new feature that allows users to preserve the structure of an image while generating new textures, styles, and materials.

  • Luma AI released “Keyframes” and “Extend & Loop” for its Ray 2 AI video model.

  • Luma AI released “Ray 2 Flash,” a new AI video model that is 3x faster and cheaper than its previous model.

  • Envato released “VideoGen,” a new AI video generator powered by Google’s Veo 2 AI video model.

  • Screen Studio released a new feature that allow users to highlight specific parts of a recording (currently in beta).

  • Figma now allows users to access “Community” in a dedicated tab on the Figma desktop app.

  • Instant now allows users to build simple drop downs, feature-rich mega menus, and custom layouts for pages.

  • Framer released “Plugin API Version 3.0,” giving plugins to access to all “Collections.”

  • Framer released a new “Off Screen” property for “Loop Effects” and “Appear Animations.”

  • ElevenLabs announced a partnership with Deutsche Telekom to integrate AI voices into Magneta AI, allowing users to transform articles into high-quality podcast instantly.

  • Framer released a new CMS performance update making it faster, more efficient and easier to manage.

  • Restream released a change log that includes one of its product updates.

  • Riffusion now allows users to download generations in MP3 and WAV format.

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