One can make up lots of excercises of creating strange characteristics and try to animate them just to show one can´t do it real good - a man with arms 20 feet long, or a nose as big as a house, or a woman with one giant, car-sized tooth, a boy with 400 legs trying to run...but their are probably b...

Thanks for that advice, I really needed that! You're right, I should ask myself questions. Just making a design move isn't enough. Next time I should spend more time in preparation. Just drawing something and then trying to animate it is not the right way, it seems. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun ...

Let's put it this way: Have you ever tried walking with shoes like that? LOL :lol: No, I haven't. Well, this project started off as a joke. In cartoon animation things are often exaggerated, so I thought, why not do a bit more and make really, really big shoes. But now I'm this far, I'd like to fin...

(I've read this in a Dutch Apple newsgroup.) QuickTime 6.x Pro users beware! It seems that downloading the new QT 7 version turns your Pro version into a non-Pro version, until you've bought a new licence. Old registration numbers will not do. I haven't a Pro version myself, so I can't check this. Q...

I've installed QuickTime 7 on my Mac OS X 10.3.9 and the new H.264 codec crashes Moho. The other H.26x codecs run fine. Here is part of the crash log: Command: Moho Path: /Applications/Moho/Moho.app/Contents/MacOS/Moho Version: 5.1.1 (5.0) PID: 385 Thread: 2 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes:...

This thread doesn't belong here, but in the "How do I" forum. See Tutorial 6.6 for an explanation on shading.

I'd say start with the help file, part 3.4 Character setup. That example fits your particular character very well. It's a matter of placing the bones correctly and keeping the limbs apart so the bones won't interfere with each other. Thanks for that reminder. I tried it, but it didn't work immediat...

Can I make this walk?

My poor anim talents can only make it skate.
(click on the pic for a clip)

I made an animation from bitmap pictures, only the background was drawn as a colored rectangle, see here (67 Kb). The Moho project is stored in a zip archive, which can be downloaded here.

The subject is a snake, which falls in love with an apple, in under 4 seconds.

Of course, you're right and I am wrong (I seem to be wrong a lot lately).


I guess I'm more of a Daffy Duck than a Mickey Mouse:- chaotic, never sure were he is going and always getting in trouble somehow.

Yeah, funny :lol: -> OFF TOPIC -> The strange things is when real humans abide by the laws of cartoon physics, they aren't funny (e.g. in Who framed Roger Rabbit ), probably because the action is not believable, or perhaps because Hollywood actors are such lousy** actors compared to cartoon characte...

Strangely enough, the message is back now. So I redraw my claim. It must have been a glitch in the network. My suggestion was that if you come from traditional animation, you should probably feel more at home with ToonBoom. To prevent offending you directly, I replaced ToonBoom by xxx. I have had so...

It is a good start, but there are some problems. For starters, the timing is way off. Study the stills of some footage I took from three sub-elite runners in a local race, here , at 25 fps, running at 17 kph. They stride at about 4 steps per second, while a typical sprinter will stride at 8 - 10 ste...

Well, I posted a suggestion to use another animation program than Moho and a few days later my post was replaced by an empty post by Lost Marble. If you haven't done it, someone else has.

It is awkward to draw and/or paint in Moho. (Plus one cannot export Moho vector art out of Moho as a vector-type file.) If Moho could just import an Adobe Illustrator file that matches the file in Adobe Illustrator.... I couldn't agree more. I could even go further, but then I'd risk this message t...