Differences between Anime Studio and Moho 5.4

kprod · Post by **kprod** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:52 am

Congratulations Lost Marble,

I love Moho and will be able to continue progressing as an anamator with
AS. Keep up the good work and keep on with your plans to improve the program. I tell many people about this great software and I'm glad for this awesome forum too because you guys understand the program and 2d/3d animation so well.

Kprod

DaleG · Post by **DaleG** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:27 am

I sent my original congrats to lost marble on 7-29, but I think the thread was misunderstood..

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtop ... light=[url]

so.. congratulations..(again!)

grafixsuz · Post by **grafixsuz** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:19 am

Congratulations

I do hope as everyone here does that this new venture will work out well for you. Looking for ward to further development of this program. I must say I am hoping for future release, now that it is part of a bigger partnership, that work on a newer interface, and feature set may be in the works.
Love Moho, regardless of the new name, and hoping that all you get the publicity you deserve after working on this project for so long by yourself! CONGRATULATIONS!

JCook · Post by **JCook** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:35 pm

Toontoonz wrote:

it´s $99 Moho 5.4 in a shiney new box - but limited to one OS

Where did you get that idea? I have Anime Studio Pro for Mac, and it's also available for Windows. Anime Studio is also available for both platforms. It's not available for Unix yet, but it's been stated that it's in progress.

jack

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:02 pm

Greenlaw wrote:
Lost Marble wrote:Anime Studio, on the other hand, will support future development, promotion, and marketing.
Hi,

Congratulations on the release of Anime Studio! I've been pretty impressed with the tools in Moho and having a lot of fun with it. I'm eagerly looking forward to the next update for Anime Studio. Keep up the great work!

Best,

D.R. Greenlaw

Hi Greeenlaw,

I admire the work that Rythm and Hues produce.

Good luck to you guys

jbarker · Post by **jbarker** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:44 pm

Lost Marble wrote:Here's the big difference:

Moho was stagnating. If you think of developing Moho as a see-saw, it had gotten to the point where all the weight was on the sales and support side, and the coding side was being neglected. It was just too much work, but with not enough sales for me to hire a staff.

Anime Studio, on the other hand, will support future development, promotion, and marketing. We've already got people working on support, quality assurance, marketing, website, etc. It's looking like I may actually be able to write code again! And it's not just me - e frontier has some talented engineers as well.

So if you were totally satisfied with Moho and never had a need for any new features, then Anime Studio is probably of no interest. (I know from experience that there aren't many of you in this category.) On the other hand, if you want to see some of those feature requests make it into the product, then Anime Studio is the way that is going to happen.

So if I have Moho 5.4 I should just hold off for a later version of Anime Studio which will include more updates (to the actual work environment and toolset - not a bunch of clipart)???

If/When I do purchase Anime Studio do I get unlimited updates as with Moho?

Will the Fill Tool in Moho/Anime Studio ever be improved? It's a killer (to me) trying to fill objects that are more than just basic shapes - way too time consuming for something that should be simple.

Other than that I love the Bones/Animation, and Effects. Best of luck!!!

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:48 pm

jbarker wrote:So if I have Moho 5.4 I should just hold off for a later version of Anime Studio which will include more updates (to the actual work environment and toolset - not a bunch of clipart)???

If you have Moho 5.4, then Anime Studio is free for you - don't hold off.

jbarker wrote:If/When I do purchase Anime Studio do I get unlimited updates as with Moho?

Moho never had unlimited updates. There were always a lot of free updates between major versions, but when going from 3->4 or 4->5, there was an upgrade price to pay. For Moho it was only $19 - I doubt it will be that low for Anime Studio.

jbarker · Post by **jbarker** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:28 pm

If you have Moho 5.4, then Anime Studio is free for you - don't hold off.

Nice. The only thing holding me back is finding the link allowing me to download.

Just Studio not Studio Pro?

Thanks for your help.

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:31 am

jbarker wrote:

Nice. The only thing holding me back is finding the link allowing me to download.

Just Studio not Studio Pro?

Thanks for your help.

Hi JBarker,

E-frontier should have sent you an email with the link.
You would need your Moho serial number to get your free version of Anime Studio Pro.

You get the Pro version, as that is what Moho is, not the cheaper version which lacks some features of Moho

Post by **Lost Marble** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:21 am

If you didn't get the email, you can read it here on the forum:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5373