So did you only have one Kitty model for the whole animation? I've been debating the advantages of one model for everything vs. several models for different angles. Any opinions? Would you do it the same way again? Yes, I only had one model of Kitty. She had interchangeable hands on switch layers, ...

I used to teach a 3d class as well as some After Effects classes. I'm a huge fan of rendering in layers and compositing afterwards. It may seem to be more time consuming but I'm always happy with myself when I can just render out one fixed character without having to render the whole scene out agai...

:cry: AAAGH! I seem to have exceeded my bandwidth allowance, and Plusnet have taken my site down. What's more, they'll only restore it if I tell them what steps I have taken to ensure it doesn't go over again. Apologies to those who haven't managed to download the film yet, but I'll have to find ano...

1. The 3D items - the desk, chair, room, File cabinet, office ceiling, and office items were all done in a 3D app. Which were done in Maya and which were done in Wings 3D. The desks (Kitty's and hog-boss's), in and out trays, piles of paper, sheet of paper which Kitty handles and the ceiling were m...

The layers trick is a useful technique as long as you don't move the characters too much in frame. Yours looks like you didn't seem to be too limited by that. I know when I did the Carrot moving too far in the 'X' dimension it ruined the illusion. I'm guessing that your layers must be quite close t...

musajoe, lots of questions. I will respond to them, just don't have time right now. Thanks for everybody's reactions.

Wehey! Congratulations Barry. I'm in particle hell at the moment so I can appreciate exactly what you went through. I totally sympathise - it can be quite frustrating until it "clicks" into place. I love the Cat character (Do I detect a little fake 3d on the face?) Yes, it's exactly the s...

About how long did it take you? Were the papers animated with Moho's particles or some other method? It took four weeks of actual production, including weekends (after the storyboards), which is pretty quick for such an involved piece. The last week was absolutely frantic, ending on an all-nighter....

Happy New Year to you all. I've uploaded my recently completed Moho epic to my website. It's about a quarter of the whole film, the rest was animated in Flash. A few words of explanation, from a Moho point of view. First of all, not all the characters have been animated in moho. I was directing the ...

These are really great fragments of animation. Intriguing, smart and stylish. Look forward to seeing more.

Great looking job. What I like about this is the detail in the background, and the stylised animation of the waves and boats. It all looks like one of those wooden automata from early last century - like you'd pop a coin in the slot and it all comes to life.

I'm glad you're finding it useful. When I've finished the film I'm working on, I should have some more tips to share - I've learned such a lot through the job!

I loved this animation!! It's wonderful, and so Russian looking (the style reminds me of Yuri Norstein's "Tale of Tales" and Russian folk art). I'm left wishing I could see it in an even larger size - like fullscreen video. A great advert for the capabilities of Moho as well. Well done! :D

Yes, Lost Marble have been amazingly fast and supportive right from the start. I don't see this level of service with any of the other major graphic applications. I made suggestions to Macromedia about Flash back in version 2 - not only have they never been implemented, they were never even acknowle...

Good, simple idea, and well timed out. Like nobudget, I was also strongly reminded of seventies children's animation - in particular the little shorts in Sesame Street ("This show has been brought to you by the number 5"). Good use of dissolves to edit the action, and while the ladder clim...