21. Drawing a character

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/MohoCou...
Character and props illustrations made by Óscar Chávez. Background illustration made by María Pareja.
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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

[@johnaart]

The only thing that has been stopping adoption is great moho tutorials... Am glad these are now happening. Please keep them coming

[@inknpaintCW]

Great to see all these lessons to get people started in Moho!
I will share these with my students.
Thanks Moho Team!

[@arturocdb]

Thank you, very well explained with patient…., excellent!….

[@Dudestman]

The course files are missing both the Kusi reference and Kusi Swatch files.

[@Gulpman1]

Thank you for the tutorial. I have a question. What do you do when you move layers? I don't know how to do it because there is no explanation in the video. Please answer. Thank you

[@alcoxartist]

Hey Chad, just want to say I’m really really enjoying this Moho course. Big thumbs up from me and what a cool software! : ) I just had one question to ask, so I followed along with this ‘Drawing a Character’ video but it looks like from here to the following videos, the line work of Kusi changes. She appears to have a different stroke outline that boils when the body parts move and also her joints appear to be sharper. My Kusi design is still bendy with smooth strokes. Wasn’t sure if I missed out on a section that explains adding in those features or if they’re coming up later on in the course. Thanks, Al

[@mohoanimation]

Hello! That version of Kusi uses line boiling, which is also explained in the course. The arms bend differently just because the smart bones were built in that way.

[@marokidstv7207]

thank you amazing tutorials 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@AhmedIbrahim-mv4kd]

Amazing tutorial! but what would kusi look like bald?

[@vinhlovesart]

Why I can’t add more line to close the line for filling color by create shape U like your video. Please help me . 😢

[@conservativeliberal]

There's a difference between drawing something and using shapes shapes have more things you can do with them like blending them together and maybe hide edge I think

[@TheDrAbouzaid]

Hi, the reference swatch file (Kusi) isn't actually in the files in the link. Please add it. Thanks

[@rushikeshjadhav9352]

You can copy kusi.png file and rename it. That's what I did😀

[@thespiritseedscomic]

Thank you!!

[@verm_ms]

pevery time i draw, the reference layer becomes full opacity, is there's a setting I didn't notice or is it the version of moho i have? (i have moho 12.5)

[@Oneshotcheckz]

My Moho doesn't have the "Add" option on the select object button. Please help.

[@mohoanimation]

Liquid shapes are only available on Moho Pro 14 or higher

[@alexrome1906]

Hi kindly draw bird cartoon and animate