Yeah, when I was teaching I developed this because it gets the point across fast and gives pretty satisfying results for someone who is new to the program. Don't worry, I have others where I may or may not go on and on myself, but I try to keep them short.

I hope you can share what you create. Glad I could help. Bone strength really does need to be played with every single time. I find it is a little different for every rig I build.

Will see how I go. Have got distracted from the animation at moment. Will try and remember to share if I create something soon. Cheers

Sean OBrien ray the stick man into the bones

J H absolutely. If it is Illustrator, save as a n SVG using standard settings. It will give you much better results, particularly if you have Moho 12. No color shifting, which saving as AI does.

I don't remember who did it, and yeah, not wanting the drama. If you see a rigging video where they start the legs at the ankles and draw the bones up, let me know and I'll arrange a cage match with them.

I have seen this as well. I think it was a Flash tutorial that was using magnet or snap to connect. But for anime studio, this is awesome thanks

Yep, just like in the song.

Point binding is the best way to totally control warping, you can turn off bone strength entirely and bind the bone you want controlling them to them. It takes a little practice to work out exactly which points. You can mix and match binding methods, so you could bind the head layer to the head bone, that will keep other bones from touching it. But first, just check your bone strength and see if it is too much. And it is easier to rig a character who is standing straight, legs apart, and arms pointed out from the body, its called a T-pose. The problem there is the legs are hard to keep from pulling on one another. Until the newest version, I've mostly used point binding. I'm playing with flexi-binding, which is mostly good but a little difficult to get used to.

I plan on some more advanced rigging tutorials, I need to find the time. My next is about mouths.

Thanks for the help, i will look into that.

Mess around and explore with various bone strengths on all limbs. You need some strength in head and body to stop it warping. Too little is no good nor is too much. Just got mine just right after realising I had way too low on all of it.

It sounds like a video card issue. Do you mean your bones temporarily vanish when you drag them? Or the picture? There is a Display Quality drop-down at the top right of the timeline. See if changing those settings helps, I know that turning GPU acceleration on or off (usually I hear to turn it off) solves a lot of problems and that is an option. You can also click a button to try Medium or High and see if that fixes the problem.

oh good ~ found the problem ~ the HIDE command

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You might start fresh. Not sure what you mean by lines breaking. Something has gone wrong. I’d say try again. Practice helps.

@@SquareBearStudio So where the lines meet on the vector they will separate when I move the bone. It is hard switching over from flash to this new software (i refuse to pay a subscription).

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not free

@@SquareBearStudio oh, i checked and it said around 300$ but i found a freeware animating software so thats good

I’m going to have to guess you missed something. If you did it correctly, it would move. Two possibilities I can think of, one more likely. I’ve taught this so many times, and some miss that they have to have the vector layers inside the bone layer. Show and hide your bone layer, if your figure doesn’t vanish, then they aren’t in the bone layer and won’t work. Or you’ve set the bone strength to zero on all your bones. If all else fails, start again, it really only takes couple of minutes to set this up so start again with a brand new file and see what happens.

@@SquareBearStudio can you take a look this video and tell me where is my mistake? drive.google.com/file/d/12y9C893pbeFEP4m1qiKwQPcmTmwFlHMj/view?usp=drivesdk

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Anime Studio changed its name back to Moho for version 12. The first 5 versions of the software were Moho, they renamed it Anime Studio for a while, now they are back at Moho.

thx !!