Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

The Mouse's Castle: My inspiration for this came from the French animation "Ernest & Celestine".

Music by Aaron Kenny (YouTube Audio Library)

The Mystery Gang is back in "Ducks on a Pond"! When an unseen force hits Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy with a snow ball, the Mystery Gang springs into action. Before too long, they find themselves in a tense race against time. Or maybe a deadly game of cat and mouse. Or a web of intrigue that goes all the way to the top. Yes, that sounds best. Let's go with the "web of intrigue" one.

Note to self: don't forget to go back sometime and remove references to the "tense race against time" and "deadly game of cat and mouse".

The classic endless four step runs from the 60s TV shows of my childhood. A lot of frame by frame using switches for characters. Each character has a transparent frame to make it disappear. All my drawings were done with a mouse. MP4s of the parts as listed were joined, to eventually make the whole. Then the background music and explosions were added.

This is the first cartoon I've made with a "pro" version of Anime Studio and I'm very pleased with the added features and expanded 'freedom' to create animations. I love this site too! What a resource when you hit those - "how do I...?" moments. I can't wait to work on more ideas, but...at a more liesurely pace next time (I didn't get much else done this month because of this cartoon!)

Sound effects that were gathered from the internet were all 'cc by 3.0' or public domain. (they're in the end credits)

I had to read up on 'fair use' rules for the 'Frogger' scenes, and was convinced that I wasn't in any danger there. Enjoy!