Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

Learn to use the Create Shape tool in Anime Studio Debut 11

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How to Anime Studio: Workflow Basics: Character Animation: Episode 1

Working with paper, pen, illustration software, and Anime Studio, we will take a character from idea to a ready-to-rig Illustration.

Workflow Basics Episode 2 | JaredHundley.com

How to Anime Studio: Workflow Basics: Character Animation: Episode 2

Continuing the illustration we completed in Ep. 1, we will learn to layer our art, figure out what vector, switch, bone, and group layers are. We will also create a bone structure and bind all of our artwork to these bones.

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How to Anime Studio: Workflow Basics: Character Animation: Episode 3

We will animate Batman from our rigged Anime Studio file from Episode 2. This episode focuses on Animation Principles such as anticipation and follow through. We also look into Key Poses and In-Betweens while we work on animation with bones, keyframes, cycles, switch layers.

Episode 1 | JaredHundley.com

Working with Photoshop and Anime Studio, we dive into how to create a set of mouth phonemes, incorporate them into Anime Studio switch layers, and manually lip sync to a spoken word audio file. This episode also briefly shows a little about how to use After Effects to composite your animation files and some extra bonus ideas toward the end for you to consider.

Working with Anime Studio Pro, we create mouth phonemes through masked layers and smart bone actions. This setup helps us have infinite mouth combinations and to complete manual lip sync in a unique, efficient way.

This tutorial was created by Niidea Productions and is in Spanish.
It shows how easy it is to create a character in Anime Studio.

In this first tutorial, he covers a few topics including how to trace an image using the 'View' > 'Select Tracing Image...' option.

The supported document contains an image for you to trace so you can follow along.
The final character can be download in the shared files section: Skateboarding Old Man

Get a look at the exciting new features in Anime Studio 11 in this 1-hour webinar presented by Mike Clifton, and Jason Cozy of the Anime Studio Team. Mike will show you how you can now do frame by frame animation in Anime Studio! He will also show you workflow game changers such as Layer Referencing, Animated Bone Targets and Animated Bone Parenting and when you can use them. See how changing the layer order of shapes in a single vector layer over time is now easy and how you can now flip a bone mid-animation allowing you to change an effect at any time. See all of this and more! The webinar concludes with a Q & A session where your questions will be answered.

Join Anime Studio Master Victor Paredes in this 1-hour webinar as he shows you how he creates animations using Anime Studio Pro 11. Victor will quickly walk you through the new frame-by-frame and reference layers features and share some exciting ways to put them to use. He will then show you how he creates animations using both bone rigged and frame-by-frame methods. Victor will then share some of his tricks on using other new features along with some non-standard techniques to get you thinking outside of the box. The webinar concludes with a Q&A session where your questions are answered.

The book that Victor refers to in the webinar is titled Elemental Magic: Volume 1 - The Art of Special Effects Animation by Joseph Gilland.

Another book that Victor recommends is The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams.

*We apologize for the technical difficulties that occur in this webinar*