This is normal behaviour. There's nothing wrong with the first version.

Bigger productions may give the fastest moving plates a motion blur pass. Since those characters don't move you could give the 2 layers some treatment with directional blur.

Hm, can you test with different settings of scale compensation on that layer?

Affinity is the maker, its programs are called Photo, Designer and Publisher, and are able to replace Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign (the unholy Adobe Trinity).

Don't fret about that. Although new versions of programs are nice, I find that I still can do (and do) about 90% or more of my jobs with 10 yr old versions or even older. My Photoshop is from 2010 and still works fine (but I own Affinity already).

Project view is not to trust in delicate stuff like this, oly the rendered result counts.

That said: you can test your setup by writing down the RGB values for some of your shapes in Moho, then open the rendered image in Photoshop or the like and check if the values are the same.

Next weekend I will introduce a 9 yr old to animation. For a start he wants to know how to get images/drawings into the computer, and then how to move them.

Can any of you recommend some sofware for Mac, besides Moho?

Photoshop does a good enough job itself to export layers as single image files (in any format). See under File > Script.

One quirk with more complex masks is that they may not display correctly in project view. If you find something wrong, always do a quick render cmd-R to check.

Anything you put into the same group can be masked by the same mask.

The basic concept is like this:
Any movement happens between 2 keyframes. Create one key with the element at start position and one key with the element at end position.

There are several ways to prepare images for Moho (Hell, I already sound like ChatGPT!). It depends on what you want to do with them. - BG images: just import them as they are. Images of more than 5000px or so of height tend to slow dwn Mmoho, so avoid this. - Props: cut them out in your favourite b...

Very nice! So much to like here. But why is the first tentacle playing under the bass strings?

Yes, I sometimes have this with my rigs, especially in side view. 3 tips: - build the rig in a way that it's not exactly sideways, meaning, that left and right leg bones are not at really exactly same positions - zoom in really deeply before selecting a bone. It helps to name bones ("left thigh...

Particles haven't changed much over the years ...

I suggest you open the existing particle presets under Scripts and study their settings. There's a Rain already which you may find useful. Just play around with settings, and with emitter size and placement.

What I do: on my own website there are some examples. Then there's an additional portfolio PDF which I send if asked for. Finished films are mostly online somewhere so I could link to them. Many people don't really understand copyright at all. Any © watermark on your images doesn't prevent you from ...