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Anime Studio (Moho) and other stuff …

Posted in Art and Animation, Anime Studio (Moho) on August 15th, 2007 by burtabreu

New and old fans of Anime Studio will be happy to hear that Mike Clifton is working on a new update. While there is no release date he showcased some of the items on the Lostmarble Forum. Here’s a quick highlight of some of the stuff in the works …

First, path animation. You can now directly edit the motion path of individual layers. Here’s an example of the process:

http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/Siggraph07/1_PathAnimation1.mov

It makes moving along this kind of path a lot easier to do:

http://www.lostmarble.com/misc/Siggraph07/1_PathAnimation2.mov

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Anime Studio (Moho)

Posted in Art and Animation, Anime Studio (Moho) on March 15th, 2007 by burtabreu

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

Official Page at e-frontier.

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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