Another useful trick is to close the character's eyes in a turn and open them at the completion of the turn...this way, the viewer doesn't notice that the eye shape has changed from a front view drawing to a side view drawing. Eye blinks are an animators' friend. It's one of my favorite ways to add...

Very nice! Can't wait to give it a try. Thanks to all who worked on it.

Sorry about pointing this out.

Gee, I'm a tree.

Thank you. Much appreciated. I watched the tutorial but missed the point.

: )

I woke up this morning to find that Moho had stopped rendering in 2-D and is only working in 1-D.

I think it has something to do with the system clock and date. : )

(icymi: April fools...)

I sometimes make a smart bone dial to control the up and down motion of eyelids. That way I can set it anywhere from fully open to fully closed. I've also done the open and closed only, which is great for a cartoony blink. I've aded sound effects to these sorts of blinks before, too, for emphasis. I...

If this is your first, try out the built-in lip sync that goes along with a Switch Layer. It's pretty simple, and is a bit more than Muppet open and close, but less than full lip sync. Then you can decide if you want less, more, or stick with this technique. You'll need to put all your mouth laters ...

Lots to like in there. Nice!

I really enjoyed the simple bent blades of grass, the turtle's face, and the wave splash at the end.

You could also use particles... : )



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Just taking a bit of a poll here... what frame rate do you like to animate at? I got my start in video so I've been working with 30 frames per second for most of my adult life. (I'm not going to count the 8mm kid film work.) 30fps, for me, makes for nice math. It's a bit hard to follow old timing su...

I'd suggest a day of playing around. Take one of the characters you'd like to work with in the future and try to build it, then animate it. Make mistakes. Try things. Can you get a ball to bounce? A character to blink and wave? A bird to flap wings in a a cycle? Practice making things go faster and ...

I'd like Moho to be able to give me more time in the day. MacOS users (maybe others) are used to OS upgrades that go something like: big feature upgrade, stability upgrade, feature upgrade, stability upgrade.... every other one is about tightening up and fixing things. Perhaps this could be a way to...

It would be great if the old broken links weren't an issue.

It can be quite costly to host and serve up image and movie files. It can add up quickly. An alternative would be to encourage use of (and make it easy to use) something like the Internet Archive, where it is free and "permanent".

I'm seeing all my fonts in Moho 13.5.2 (Mac Monterey). Maybe the issue is with multiple font libraries? There is one at MacHD>Library> Fonts, but probably another one at MacHD>Users>(username)>Library>Fonts (and maybe others, if there are other users) Is there any difference between what's in these ...

I love the personal projects (mostly because without them I'd be waiting a long time for paid projects...) : ) Excellent for learning the software and staying fresh. I did some animating with a black background not too long ago. In addition to the above, I'd suggest playing with brush styles, creati...