All animation was done using Moho 13.5 on a MacBook Pro 16" with an eGPU. The latest version of Moho is quite stable – I reported a bunch of weird bugs to Moho support, who were super responsive and helpful (great job guys!).
Unfortunately for long scenes (1500 frames+) Moho can get quite unstable and sluggish (there's a horrible bug that can crash Moho randomly when you perform an undo
). Rendering speed is better with this version, since I can use all 8/16 cores, but compared to Apple Motion rendering performance is still a joke. This time I didn't bother doing most of the compositing in Motion, though, because I wanted more camera angle switches and for that I'd have to render out the characters in 4k and that ain't gonna happen with Moho's sluggish rendering performance, so I had to do almost all rendering and compositing in Moho directly. That was painfully slow. I won't do that again.Another reason why I prefer compositing in Apple Motion is that I suck at coloring background artwork with moody light/colors, so I just cheat by drawing backgrounds in "normal" light and add ambient moody lighting in Motion, which tends to make the scene look better. I regret not having done that for this episode, because as a result all scenes look too well lit and kinda flat.
Episode Trailer 1 “Dramatic/Sad”
Episode Trailer 2 “Groovy”
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I watched one of your other animations on YT and subscribed.