Thanks so much for saying that. I'm really happy to hear this video was useful to someone. I'm kind of kicking myself for not coming back to it for so long, but I'm really glad I did. How's the transition from Adobe Animate going? I haven't animated in that for quite some time.

@@RSKT_art Im really glad that you're back on it. Well, my journey so far is pretty rough but I learn something new each day. Im going to familiarize myself to use styles in Moho like the one that you show on this video. You rock!

Sorry to hear than man, but glad to hear you're pushing on. Styles really are a great time saver, especially if you want to edit your whole character later on!

Thanks so much! I've been trying to find time to mess around with it more. Definately keen to keep going! Thanks for watching :)

Hey man - thankyou so much for the nice comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed this vid and the webinar. I'm pretty flat chat at the moment, but I think your idea of having a video that covered the drawing tos in detail is a great idea. I'll see what I can come up with. There's still a few things I'm unsure of myself, so it might take me a while to make it. I'll start digging through the manual and do some research for the things I'm not sure of. Either way, thanks again so much for watching. Hopefully I'm able to get this vid out for you someday soon. :)

Cheers!

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks so much!

No worries at all! So glad you enjoyed the video 😊

Thanks for watching! :)

@@RSKT_art bro you saved my life literally!!,, lol yesterday I tried to understand how to work in Moho cause today I should have shown my works for the university Exam was cancelled but I totally found out how to do in Moho some things I tried to do in ClipStudio or Tv Paint so I can create a masterpiece in that time that I won because of the postponement

Haha that's great to hear man! I'm so glad this wound up working in your favour!

No worries! So glad it was helpful. I know the struggle - picked it up myself a couple of years back and haven't done enough with it. Really glad I took the plunge!

No worries! Thanks so much for watching :)

Thanks mate, I appreciate that. I find I get a lot out of critiquing my own artwork. Helps me try new things and do better next time. Haha, although my wife feels the same as you. Thanks for watching! :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome! Thanks for tuning in!

No worries! Really glad you liked the video. 😊

No worries! Thankyou for watching it :)

No problem! Really glad you were able to get something out of this :)

Couldn't agree more! I have so much fun using Moho. It's really great. Thanks for watching 😊

@@RSKT_art NP, I haven't done a Moho tutorial in years, I should have a look to see the new tools that were added since the last time I used it! 🙂

@@gcharb2d I actually watched a couple of your tutorials back in the day. Just revisited your channel and realised you made the famous western grease pencil example. I haven't tried grease pencil since it first came out. How are you finding it these days? I saw a blender user has now made a system to do cut out and smart bones in blender, and was heavily inspired by Moho. Wondering what your thoughts have been on the whole thing, as I really love blender, but also love the time I save animating in Moho.

@@RSKT_art You don't need special tools to rig grease pencil objects, as they are regular objects that can be rigged, I would not use GP for cut-outs though, Moho is much better at that, Toonboom is still the best at hand drawn animation, the strength of GP is its 2D/3D integration, but it's not the best 2D animation software, but they modified the GP masking system after seeing my facial rig tests done in Blender, now it works pretty much like Moho!

Ah nice, that's awesome to hear man. I'll definitely have to check it out again some day. Loving the stuff I'm seeing people make with it lately.

Still a lot I want to experiment with, so hopefully I'll have more for you soon! :)

No worries! Thanks for watching! :)

No problem at all! Thanks so much for watching!

Thank you! Cheers for watching! :)

Thanks! So I'm just using vector strokea to colour this guy in. If you wanted to fill a shape, you definately could. One way is to create a shape that has a fill and a stroke. Another way would be to create the strokes first (for the outline), and then create a separate vector shape as the fill. You could do this on a separate layer, but you can also do it on the same layer and move it backwards/forwards using the up & down arrow keys. It's very similar to how apps like Illustrator and Affinity work. Hope that helps answer your question :)

Don't forget to turn off the auto weld when drawing if you don't want close points to close into a shape. (checkbox at the top of the UI)

Many thanks! Stoked people are liking this :)

Hahaha, love it. Thanks so much for watching.

Sorry for the late reply - Yes, it's essentially the same as going to the bone menu and selecting bind to layer.

Hey, thanks for watching! I honestly completely agree with everything you're saying. Smart bones and even vertex groups & blend shapes aren't always the best practice when it comes to animating. A truly great 2D animation is done frame-by-frame in my opinion, and the best 3D rigs allow animators complete control over ever aspect without having to rely on things like blend shapes. However, I personally don't have the time. Animating this frame by frame would have looked so much better, but it's not practical for me, and I think that's where Moho really hits the sweet spot. Unless you have a team of people working in something like Toon Boom or Open Toonz, it's just not feasible for most people to go it alone. I think Moho provides people with the tools to be able to pull of decent 2D animations without having to spend years on a project, or hire a bunch of people to help you tell a story. Fortunately, it IS possible to do squash and stretch, and even smear effects in Moho. There's a lot of great tools in there to help you achieve believable results. While it might take time to set up a decent rig - once it's done you can reuse it over and over again. Perfect if you're making an animation short or a series by yourself (or within a small team). But yeah, I totally agree with what you're saying. Personally, I just feel Moho treads that fine line of being better than things like Adobe Animate/Character Animator, but less extensive than more complex software like Blender, Open Toonz, and Toon boom. It's the perfect sweet spot.

Can we see your work?

You can do any frame by frame animation on moho on top of the bones, as fully new drawings or even tweening the vectors

Sure is! I find a lot of Moho be quite similar to Maya and Blender. Thankyou for watching!

Hi - Great to hear you're getting into 2D. Moho is GREAT for that. I think the key thing Moho offers is that it's a complete platform that allows single users to get high quality, professional results. Toon-Boom is the industry standard, however, it's harder to make and finish something on it if you're just working by yourself. Blender is a great option too, but again, Moho just makes the whole process easier. As far as other resources go, there's loads of great channels out there - including Moho's free course on their own channel (which I highly recommend). Alternatively, there's some great courses on the Bloop Animation website, and even on Udemy. Everyone's basically teaching the same thing, so I recommend just picking one and going with it (probably Moho's one as it's free :)

@@RSKT_art If so for now i'll go with moho. thank you so much for the information. You are doing wonderful job. Hope you'll grow more and more

@@user-de5ig5og9x Thank you. Good luck! :)

No problem! I definately wouldn't mind trying out a human character for my next rig. Will see how it goes!

@@RSKT_art thank you 🙏

That's actually not an arrow, it's a bone. When you draw a bone, it highlights "red" so that you can see which bone you have selected. This bone is just pointing downwards. You WILL see arrows when you switch to the parent view though. They show which bones are parented to other bones.

Hey, so I worked on this in a lot of my spare time around the rest of my work, so it's hard to say as I kept having to stop and start. In total, I think drawing and rigging the character probably took me a day, but I was researching a lot of the face and head rigging tools. Doing it from scratch again took me about an hour or two. The animation took me about 3 days on and off, spread over a couple of weeks. Probably would have taken a lot less time if I understood the timeline better, and if I had a clearer goal in mind when starting.

@@RSKT_art Thank you much Sir for the reply)

​@@samikhand5317 no worries! :)

Thank you! Glad you think so :)

@@RSKT_art please also do a character and how to set it up (the layers in affinity) and then in moho, I've shared your video with my WhatsApp friends

A couple of my older videos actually show that process! All of the work I've done in Moho up until this video had the artwork designed in Affinity Designer first. Hope that helps :)