Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

Ants following a line.

This is a simple setup that has an image of a guitar follow a path with notes following.
This could be done with particles, but doing it this was is quick and easy.
A version for Anime Studio 9 is also included.

There are several ways to achieve a line following animation effect. Here is one idea.





This was in an attempt to help nina_paley on the lostmarble forum

This method is probably not the best one, and a script would help. But it's easy to setup and adapt.

As a line can only have one effect applied at a time, three line shapes were created for each letter on the same points.

Here's one way to create a nice smooth, rounded line in Anime Studio - use a custom brush!

Download and unzip the round image (AST Round_1_0_0_1_0_0_0_1.png) into your custom brush folder.

Tip: tick the "Tint brush using stroke color" option to color the line.

An example:

Made in Moho Pro 12 using only lines and rotated referenced layers.

My first attempt at lip sync. Too much mouth movement. Took bloomin ages to do. Moral...Have lots of animation going on to detract from noticing the mouth movements I altered the line thickness depending if the shot was a Close up. That scheme works quite well I think. Again time consuming though. .

Continuing on in the endless animation education, today's contribution centres on importing svg's. They tend to get a little large, if you are not careful. Make sure you are saving them at the size you need. Especially important for line thickness. They can be edited in MOHO, and sections moved for animation, which is a plus.

For an animated rotating brush > Brush Settings > Brush angle drift > set to a high number
Then extend the line in your animation to view the effect.
Below are examples for an angle of 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000

Made with Moho Pro 12
The loops are created by setting the line's 'Stroke Exposure'



The timing was worked out with the Loop Calculator