Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

New in Anime Studio 11 - Improved Photoshop File Support - Now new PSD layers will be applied into Anime Studio when the active file is updated in Photoshop. If layers are re-arranged, Anime Studio will maintain its own layer ordering but still reflect the visual changes made from Photoshop.

The Photoshop document import with support for layers speeds up your workflow

This is a two part tutorial on making assets in photoshop and using them in anime studio. It's not a real comprehensive tutorial on the subject but it give you a general idea on what you can do using photoshop and layer effects. I'd say it might be useful for anyone who wants to you gradient transparencies or effects that can't be replicated easily in AS.

Photoshop Assets In Anime Studio: Part 2

Part 2: This is a two part tutorial on making assets in photoshop and using them in anime studio. It's not a real comprehensive tutorial on the subject but it give you a general idea on what you can do using photoshop and layer effects. I'd say it might be useful for anyone who wants to you gradient transparencies or effects that can't be replicated easily in AS.

Photoshop Assets In Anime Studio: Part 1

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

This is a quick tutorial on using the Adobe Photoshop Elements export script to save your layer structure and import into Anime Studio. It will also work with Photoshop if you have that.
In this tutorial we're using Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 and Anime Studio Pro 9.5

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
Little Angel Movie on Vimeo:

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.

Learn how to import your PSD files from Photoshop straight to Moho in this tutorial. *Note: You can do this with any other drawing software that saves your artwork to PSD

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

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.