Anime Studio (Moho)
I’ve decided to make a little niche on my corner of AnimationBlogSpot to feature one of my favorite little programs. Some of you may have looked at Moho at some point, recently reborn as Anime Studio, but unless you have taken it for a test drive you may not realize what a gem it is. I do not work for e-frontier, I’m just one of many fans of this program. You can see the
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Anime Studio is a powerful 2D vector-based cartoon animation application. It is not an ink & paint tool that requires you to draw each frame of your animation by hand. You can do cutout style animation, layer animation, bone animation, and point animation. You can draw your characters once at the beginning of an animation, then use the bone tools to manipulate them like puppets. It includes tools for drawing and coloring, keyframe animation, 2D particle system, a 3D camera which can be animated, the ability to import 3D obj mesh, multi-layer compositing and final rendering.
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Here are a few recent samples of work from various users.
Machine Masters (All done in Anime Studio)
GreyKid Pictures has done some wonderful work. Check out Bunny Love, Gone in 60 seconds and La Reine Soliel (the official page in French is here) for examples of Anime Studio in action.
Also check out Paul Amesbury’s Cat Bastard He has posted several episodes on the LostMarble Forums from time to time so check out the Share Your Work section for other examples.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:24 am e
I ave actually made good use of this programme myself. It’s very esay to use when you want to blend 2D images with 3D images, even better at neatly warping vector images smoothly and wthout jagged lines. All in all a useful tool. Maybe not quite mainstream but as good as I feel.
A very simple example of this programme as a test for my War of the Worlds project
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xIbvJiH0Gi8