I just wrote about that topic here: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=216937#p216937 2: Automatic lip sync only relies on the position of the layers inside the switch layer. Closed mouth on bottom, most open mouth on top. 3: Good thinking. Put the different emotions switch layers into...

Usually a PNG image should be pretty reliable in terms of colour. Could you post an example image?

If the lid is not masked, I make it "invisible" via point animation: just make it so small and place it on another outline.

That's the way we do it.

Several tests later... So ProRes alpha-ALAC doesn' work because it doesn't really write an alpha channel. If you export a movie from Moho, render in ProRes PNG-alpha , which cannot be played in Quicktime player, but will import to and work with alpha in Finalcut. FinalCut no longer has an option to ...

Update: I've installed the newest FinalCut on the new machine as well. No new codecs available (although I instaled an update with "additional professional formats"). Then tried if the new version has that bug fixed that it didn't remember the length I set for bulk imported images. Guess w...

Over the last 2 yrs I did _a lot _ of lipsync animation and experimented with several ways: fully automatical, switch with and without interpolation. I found that in a mainly interpolated switch lipsync I can get snappiness in when needed by just duplicating the last key and put it right before the ...

A favourite style of mine as well (see my https://vimeo.com/683946372 . Of course Moho's strength is the smooth transformation, but I think this style asks for mouth shapes with sharp changes, not interpolation. But of course that's a personal design choice. I like the stuff you did with the speech ...

Also check "minimize frame to frame randomness" in the brush settings. This way, brushes will be spread differently only if the distance between two outline points becomes different between frames.

Well, the first thing I did was testing the dreaded alpha issue. I was hoping for new OS and new FinalCut version would be more playing nice. Surprise: it doesn't. The codec menu in OS 13 is the same as in 10.15. Instaling FC doesn't add any more options. Havin Moho 14.1 and FC 10.7.1 on the same ma...

Just an announcement that I finally got a new Mac Mini and successfully set up a Cintiq and Moho 14. Good news: pen pressure is recognized in 14, as it wasn't in 13.5. This is the first new Mac I bought in more than 20 yrs, all other machines were 2nd hand. Hopefully that new setup will last 20 yrs ...

No, I suspect Quicktime and this dreaded ProRes alpha ALAC as the culprit. Exporting with PNG alpha from 13.5 gives a file with readable Alpha, so it's not Moho's fault.

Mac Mini hasn't arrived yet, so I did some better testing with what's here. I use 3 macs, with OS 10.6, 10.11 and 10.15, so each has different codecs available in quicktime. And of course it's different Moho versions: OS 10.6 AS 9, TVpaint OS 10.11 AS 11 OS 10.15 Moho 13.5 FinalCut 10.3 runs on OS 1...

Ah, standard problem.

Have dog on one layer, tree on another. Duplicte dog layer, put one in front of tree, one behind. Switch visibility of body parts where necessary.

To animate layer order, layers must be in a bone or group folder, in which "animated layer order" is checked.

This problem already exists in Moho 13.5, and since Mac OS 10.15. I can render in ProRes Alpha ALAC as well as in PNG Alpha PSM , whatever that means, but can't import this into FinalCut, another Apple product, with Alpha working. I can't even play PNG Alpha PSM files on that Mac, but I can import t...