Join Vern in this 1-hour webinar as he shows you how to create your own facial control rigs to animate the faces of your characters in Anime Studio Pro. Learn how to build simple controls for opening and closing the eyes, and for animating the eyebrows. These control rigs will allow you to animate features such as these both separately and/or together.

Do you ever get frustrated with bones over the face of your characters that clutter up the preview while trying to animate? As part of the face control rig, Vern will also cover creating an "External Control Rig" in Anime Studio using the Bone Constraints feature. The "External Bone Control Rig" will eliminate visual clutter allowing for a completely clean preview of the character's face during animation. By making use of a non-rendering vector layer, "control markers" are assigned to the control bones and the bone display can be turned off completely in the Anime Studio preview. Nothing will block or interfere with your view of the characters head and face while you animate. By using the ideas presented in this webinar you can simplify and streamline your animation process.

The script can be found here

A quick hit video tutorial of a fantastic feature in Anime Studio Pro 7 "Stroke Exposure"

Anime Studio allows you to enter text in your projects

Curve profiles provide a way to add interesting detail to a shape. You use the Curve Profile tool to create these details on a shape. You select a shape on a layer. Additional curves that define the profile can appear on the same layer.

Anime Studio Pro Only Feature

The new Smart Bones feature in Anime Studio Pro allows you to have more control over shapes when you bend them with bones. You can use Smart Bones to control the following types of scene elements.

The Stroke Exposure tool is located in the Fill section of the tool box. Normally, when you apply a stroke to a curve, you see the stroke along the entire curve. With the Stroke Exposure tool, you can click and drag on a curve that has a stroke and control where the curve starts and ends.

This tool allows you to assign any layer to follow a path in your scene. You will need two layers, one with the path, and the other with the object that will follow the path.

In this Anime Studio Tutorial, we look at how to create a background using the brush settings of a simple line.

As the line can be as long as needed, this technique is ideal for long repeating / looping designs.

This tutorial comes with help from Jorge Merino - Graphic Designer. He has also very kindly provided some sample brushes for this tutorial which can be found in the supporting content.

Click here to view FREE Anime Studio Brushes

This tutorial will show you how to create a 3D Minecraft style block in Anime Studio using a simple 16x16 pixel image.

Watch as Mars scans his character design into Photoshop, then digitalises it for use with his Anime Studio project.

Using Adobe Photoshop, and Anime Studio, Mars shows us how he created this futuristic scene.

Settings for sun reflecting on water in Anime Studio.

Chad shows how Poser can be used with Anime Studio and how to import 3D objects.

This is a quick tutorial on making a randomly rotating tech graphic for anime studio. Using a little masking, one keyframeand some random rotation you can create a pretty cool animation with little effort.

Learn how to use the auto lip sync feature and Papagayo

This Anime Studio tutorial goes over the basics of switch layers.

Learn to use the character wizard in Anime Studio

This tutorial shows one way to set up a basic eye rig in Anime Studio, using bones and masked layers.

Using the 'Bone Offset' tool the pupils can be moved quickly with ease.

There are two examples:
1. Pupils on one masked layer - Pupils can cross over to the other eye
2. Pupils split into two masked layers - Pupils can't cross over

In this 1-hour webinar Victor Parades will show you how his workflow for character rigging has improved with the new features of Anime Studio Pro 9. Using Smart Bones, Victor will demonstrate how to set up very simple bone rigging to complex simulated 3D rigs which would have been impossible in previous versions. Watch this professional artist at work and gain a valuable insight into his workflow.

In this video Funksmaname shows how he set up a doll character rig in Anime Studio 9 Pro using the new Smart Bones

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