Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

A quick overview of the updates to the drawing tools in Moho Pro 12

How to Animate a Picture Book in Moho Pro 12 Using Original Illustrations. I animated my own picture book Little Angel using Moho 12. The movie is available as a movie and on iBooks with the movie included.

Little Angel on iBooks
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When you want animate a picture book in Moho (formally known as Anime Studio) you first need to edit the original illustration in Photoshop. First you need to decide which parts of the scene need to be animated. Then make different layers of the characters you want to animate. If you want to use dialogue in the scene you will need different mouth shapes. When you have finished in Photoshop export your file as a PSD. Then you can import the PSD in Moho. Choose individually, then all of the layers will be exported separately. Then you can setup your character, using bones. Or for simpler animations you can also animate with the transform tool. Photoshop I did all the editing of the illustration in Photoshop 2015 and I am now using Photoshop 2017. Photoshop is part of Adobe Creative Cloud. It is available in the total Creative Cloud plan, or you can choose to go for a single license.

Moho Anime Studio: How to Animate a Flame in 5 Minutes In this video I explain how to animate a flame in 5 minutes using bones in Moho. I import a PSD files with the background, the Flame and the glow. I will animate the flame and the glow and loop the animation in Moho. You can do this in 5 minutes!

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Creating a spirograph effect is easy in Moho Pro 12. Using this method you can create some fun designs in no time.

Using a smart warp layer with a particle layer in Moho Pro 12

Using smart warp layers with the follow path tool, Víctor Paredes shows us some new possibilities.

Shared file that uses this method: Goldfish in bowl

This is a quick way to draw a spider's web in Moho

Although this is an old idea of Víctor Paredes, that he used in a couple projects, it's still relevant now.

This is another easy-to-do particle effect that you can use to create confetti in Anime Studio Pro of MOHO Pro 12. It uses a little bit of randomized 3D rotation of a flat square to give the illusion of confetti floating downward and also uses a very subtle use of the noise effect to scatter and simulate wind and to create even more realistic movement. You can use this for parade animations, sporting events and I'm guessing a lot of people might like to use it for New Years Eve animations as well. It only takes a few minutes to set up and create various colors to keep in your library for later use!

This one is pretty easy to do. Draw a bubble add some text, hide it, reveal it, hide it again! Simple enough but just in case you wanted to add a touch of movement to thought bubbles I thought I'd add that too.

Plus, I got over using curve profiles a bit. It's a tool that many of you have probably never heard of or used but it's really pretty cool so check it out!