09. Basic Dynamics

In this series of 38 tutorials you will quickly learn all the basics of working with the software.
The tutorials are organized in seven sections and were designed to be easy to follow, clear and to the point.
Basic Interface
videos 1 to 4
In the first part, you will learn the overall interface, how the layer structures work, what is the logic of the timeline, how you can animate already created characters and how to export your animation.
Basic rigging with bitmaps
videos 5 to 12
In the second part, we will show you how to create a puppet from a Photoshop file. You will learn how to prepare the illustration, create a basic skeleton and even create distortion meshes and Smart Bones to animate expressions easily.
Basic Animation
videos 13 to 15
In the third part we will cover concepts about movement, how to use different keyframes types, why and how to use the graph and even create cycles of animation.
Vector Drawing
Videos 16 to 21
Once you know all the basics of working with images, we will move to the vector drawing tools coming with Moho. In this fourth section you will learn everything related to the drawing and filling tools, the basics of masking, the power of Liquid shapes and, finally, how to draw an entire character in Moho.
Rigging Vectors
videos 22 to 26
The fifth section will show you the difference between rigging vector and images, how to set up Smart bones for vector, rigging and entire character, creating Vitruvian bones and animating the vector character.
Animating Backgrounds
video 27
With all that done, in the sixth section we will move to set up our background. You will learn how to create parallax to give more depth to your scene, use the camera tools and even add automatic wind to your scene.
More tools in detail
videos 28 to 38
Finally, we will cover other tools that can be very useful for your characters and scenes, such as the different options of the timeline, controlled bones, the powerful particle system, frame-by-frame layers, automatic physics, scripts, actions, references, quad meshes, brushes and layer comps.
You can download the necessary files here: bit.ly/MohoCourseFiles
Character and props illustrations made by Óscar Chávez. Background illustration made by María Pareja.
For more information about Moho, visit www.mohoanimation.com
For tutorials about the new Moho 14 features, please check this playlist:
• Moho 14: What is new? ...
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This video is part of a series of 38 video tutorials. To watch the entire course, please follow this link:
ruclips.net/p/PLynyD-7entJ2giKWS9ReviR-exwJ3UJ3T

[@TheRobertVFrazier]

I know this is a demo of how bone dynamics work, but if I were using this to animate Copper, I would add a pin bone to the bottom corners of each ear, constrained to the head, so the ears wouldn't detach and rejoin the head while they're moving.

[@mohoanimation]

Yes, that's a good idea ☺

[@sushils8297]

These are great tutorials. Thank you so much. As a beginner it would have been easier if the project files were provided as at the start of each tutorial. This tutorial has a jumping animation which was not covered in earlier tutorials.

[@Mrpaul20]

11:50 LOVED THE RESULT

[@pwihms]

Excellent tutorials as always. Very helpful.

[@Patheticbutharmless]

Uff...I don't know. For 399 I am getting a sprite switcher and the lip synch functionality(which is great) but the physics(amongst other things) really do not impress as opposed to what 2d work I can do in Blender right now. You guys really have to up your game. This is not a dis but a friendly nudge.

[@EMPERORPROVIDENCE]

Is that character made in photoshop ?
Is it png images ?
Yes or no!!!!?

[@mohoanimation]

Yes... 😅
In this case, the character was made in Photoshop, saved as PSD and imported into Moho (be sure to check the rest of the tutorials in order), but you can also import PNG files or any image format.