This might not require masking at all. Instead of using the smartbone dials to pull the upper and lower eyelid into place, use them to alter the shape of a layer with the black eye outline, revealing the blue/skin toned shapes underneath. - Layer 1 - white open eye with black outline - Layer 2 - upp...

Lens flares are a byproduct of small imperfections in the lens grinding process. Camera companies have had the technology to minimize or eliminate those imperfections since around the early 80s. While foreground lens flares have gained some re-adoption in the past 20 years (Joss Whedon intentionally...

Most of my characters are either 45 degree left/right view (via smartbone) characters. But earlier this year I've made a few 360 degree smartbone 'universal' rigs that have a fair bit of detail and complex rigging, but are also very render-intensive. In the future, I want to move to a fully-shaded '...

Lost Marble would have to take into consideration Valve's cut of any sales on Steam. Moho already has a vector for digital delivery, activation, and license verification. Part of the appeal of Steam is that Valve offers the option of doing those things for the publisher (although some publishers con...

In 13.5, I don't think bone/action associations are tied to their names. So you should be able to rename the bone in the option bar when the bone selector tool is used and then right-click the smart bone action and select rename there.

If you're on a Mac, could you use applescript to record the file->share action and then tie it to a global hotkey?

Check out synthsin's Switch Icon script: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34078 It adds an option bar interface that generates preview images of your switch layers and lets you change them with a click. You can even move the timeline by click-dragging in the preview pane to help spee...

There's a video game critic named Jim Sterling who often has unpleasant things to say about the Unity game engine. He notes that Unity requires the 'made with Unity' screen to be used with any video game developed with the freeware version of the software, while the paid version of the software does...

Some fill effects only show up in renders or with GPU acceleration enabled in the preferences.

The ctrl-r hotkey is handy for testing those fill effects if you don't want to enable GPU acceleration.

I'm in a similar situation. But I often just select multiple bones at the same time and 0 them out simultaneously.

Particle effects add a lot of overhead for any system. I think Moho treats each individual particle as its own layer, so if your particle count is in the 100s and each particle has some property that adds even more complexity (brushes, transparency, masking), this further compounds the overhead. The...

I'm a youtube hobbyist, so I export at 720p to a png image sequence, then hand off re-assembly to Hitfilm Express to add post-effects, foley, and music. I export from that in .mp4 with a video bitrate of 6500 kbps, which is what youtube recommends for a 720p video. While this is relatively low resol...

I'm at work, so if the answer to this is already available in tutorials or documentation, I apologize.

Is there a recommended brush resolution? I know that brush lines can increase render times, but if the brush is kept small then the impact may be reduced (I hope). 64x64 pixels, for example?

Here's some interesting trivia on motion blur. "Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse" used no motion blur. Or very little. Here's a quote from an article. . . ...First, Thompson (the Production Designer) consulted with Danny Dimian, Sony’s VFX supervisor. And at the top of his wish list was ...

Does 'outline on' work when the mouth mask isn't breaking the exterior of the character, though? (At work, so I can't test)