Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

In the second part of our advanced head turning tutorial series, we rig up a mouth capable of movements via a Smart Bone. Like the eyes in part 1, this will allow us to create a more polished head turn in our third part.

Recorded By: Jim Mills
Narrated By: Chad Troftgruben

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

In Part 1 of this three part series, we take a mug shot of a character and rig his eyes for blinking. Not only can this animation be used for many things down the road, but it will allow us to create a convincing head turn in Part 3.

Recorded By: Jim Mills
Narrated By: Chad Troftgruben

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

In the last part of our head turning series, we utilize smart bones, point animation and other techniques to create a detailed head turn. This includes movement for hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth and other facial details.

Recorded By: Jim Mills
Narrated By: Chad Troftgruben

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

There are many different ways to create head turns in Anime Studio. In this video, Chad and Jim demonstrate how to create a smooth head turn from front to left and then to right by using a Smart Bone dial.

Recorded By: Jim Mills
Narrated By: Chad Troftgruben

A series showing how to draw, rig and add smart bone finesse to a hand in Anime Studio Pro 9.5

Part 4 shows how to add external control bones for bending fingers.

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

A series showing how to draw, rig and add smart bone finesse to a hand in Anime Studio Pro 9.5

Part 3 shows how to finesse bone movements with smart actions

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

A series showing how to draw, rig and add smart bone finesse to a hand in Anime Studio Pro 9.5

Part 2 shows how add simple bones

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

A series showing how to draw, rig and add smart bone finesse to a hand in Anime Studio Pro 9.5

Part 1 shows how to draw and organise your layers. I use Mike Kelleys 'Swiss Army Points' tool, available at www.animatorsforum.com to make drawing easier, but you can do everything with the stock tools.

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

Anime Studio 9.3 Pro UPDATE to Smart Bones now allows the ability to control Switch layers, Layer order, Layer visibility, Follow path, Flip layer horizontally/vertically, Stroke exposure, Shape effect positioning, Shape effect parameters (like gradient colors), 3D thickness of vector shapes that have been converted to 3D and even more smart bones controls.

Anime Studio 9.5 Now Out!

Tutorial on how to create a character Rig, using PNG files. Very basic rig, but appropriate for beginning Anime Studio users.

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