What you've made is a really good basis for a little film, I don't see it as finished yet either. I like all the elements, though I wonder why the shoal of fish just stop when they get to the side of the tank. try flipping them with a little motion blur and some fast wriggling, and it will look like...

Lovely work. An effective dreamlike feel to the whole film, and the cycling back to the start is a nice touch.

Interesting tip, I can see lots of uses for that. Thanks.

I just found something else about styles that I haven't seen mentioned before, and which has the potential to be very useful. They are animateable! However, there isn't a gadget on the timeline representing styles, so it's difficult to know where changes have been made, and limits what you can do. I...

Try this: 1) Open a new project and draw a filled square on the vector layer. Let it stay the default colours, or you can change it's colours. 2) Draw a circle next to it, then change the fill and outline to something different (say green with a red outline to make it obvious). 3) Let's say we like ...

Eureka! That's the answer. Thanks both of you, now I'm on the right track. I had no idea that actions comprised all the child levels as well - that's exactly what I was looking for, especially now I know how to copy the mainline keyframes into an action. It means I can start working in the mainline,...

True the Bones cannot swivel in 3D depth, but look at whole layer rotations on the X and Y axes. You can combine these with the bone shortening that Brian referred to to make a convincing walk to camera. Make sure the leg layer pivots at the hip (by moving the layer centre) for it to work. Then move...

I thought I'd share this with you. I made a couple of custom brushes for a single purpose, drawing eyelashes. Instead of drawing out a lot of vector shapes which are a pain to animate, I thought it might be much easier to simply design a brush that could be used in a single outline to give the same ...

Actually, you can copy keyframes from the main timeline into an action. Make sure you've got the latest Moho update (5.0.2), and you can do this. You can't insert the mainline into an action by reference, but you can insert it by copy (using the Actions window). Hey! that reply sneaked in while I w...

Actually, Brian, I started out by using Actions, but they, too, are very specific to the layer you're working with. This makes them very flexible, as they can be mixed with other movements, but they still don't work with the sub-layers beneath. I suppose what I'm after is a way of wrapping up a whol...

I have animated a character on many levels, with bones and sub-layers of bones, and switch layers, and sub-switch layers etc etc... very complex. Now I'd like to repeat the action. But if I cycle the top level group layer that contains the character, none of the sub-layers actually repeat their acti...

Excellent! Exactly what I needed.

I don't know whether this is a bug, or an as-yet unimplemented feature.

The properties panel for 3D layers has a tab for masking, but whatever I switch on or off, the 3D object (within a masking group, of course) seems to remain unaffected by masking in any way.

Now I am exploring this feature of Switch layers, but can I select region binding as is possible with regular bone layers? It doesn't seem to have that tab in the properties.

Thanks to moho files being plain text, I could just edit it using Wordpad. I used Replace to remove all the extra prefixes that Moho had added to my style names (eg. "Kitty skeleton - body mid" becomes simply "body mid"). Then I loaded the file back in and clicked on Styles/delet...