Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

See how Elvis morphs into a lion!
Made in Moho Pro 12 using the new Smart Warp feature.

*Anime Studio 9.2+ required.

As we can't yet use the 'Animated Layer Order' with smart bones, the work around is to control the layers with their Z-axis setting. In the two examples provided you will see how one smart bone moves a layer to the back or front.

The setup:
Frame 0 of the Mainline in the smart bone action (X: +0.001)
Frame 1 in the positive action of the smart bone for the layer that you need to control. (X: +0.001)
Frame 1 in the reverse action (X: -0.001)

Sea life animation using smart mesh, particles, smart bones, and effects.

A simple butterfly rig using smart bones.

One smart bone controls the wings, the other the antennae.

An example is included of how this could be used in a particle layer to create lots of butterflies quickly.

You will need Anime Studio Pro 9.2 to use this file

3d model made with cinema4d with mapping, imported in moho for rotation thanks to smart bones

Tricks with particle layers and animating flowing water.

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This file has been shared by Jeremy from A Man & Ink it was animated by Julian Côme from ithinkasia.

It uses smart bones for different elements in the rig.

The script used lets us parent smart bones to each other to get the effects to work between different smart bone layers.

This is a video of Peavoy (director) explaining their rigging to Julien

This was created with smart warp layers and the follow path tool in Moho Pro 12.


For more information on how this was created, please see this tutorial by Víctor Paredes:
Smart Warp And Follow Path Tutorial

Using smart bones, you can rotate the buildings slightly to give the effect of depth / 3D. In the animation the camera is also moved.

Created with Moho Pro 12
The shadow follows and resizes automatically thanks to smart bones.