Note that none of these effects (except masking) can be seen until you actually render the animation out. Other effects you can see in the above GIF animation include, layer shadow (the shadow behind Alvin), layer shading (the actual shadow on Alvin's body giving him a more 3D look) and masking (the lighter area on his torso is just a big light brown oval masked by his body shape so you only see the part that overlaps his body). Shadow, Blur Shading, Masking and Threshold. It took me less than two minutes to set up and is some what mesmerizing to see animated.Īlvin with a number of effects applied including: In the GIF animation below, that blobby, yellow, red and black, liquid background was created by applying the threshold effect to a few yellow circles with red outlines and moving them around. If that's hard to imagine, just know that you can really create some interesting effects with it It's a setting for the blur effect that removes the blurriness and sharpens the gradient and lines created by the blur. Video 23's Threshold effect is hard to describe in detail exactly how it works. All the blur effects are animated and change organically with the movement of your animation. There's also blur shading which allows you to give your flat 2D characters a more 3D look in seconds (no need to add shading to their original character design models). Like the outline effect it works on layers so you can blur just specific layers (for a nice depth of field effect on your scene perhaps) or your entire animation. Video 22 covers the Blur effect which can now be adjusted fractionally rather than with whole numbers for greater control. In the image on the right I've added a yellow outline to Alvin the Owl's eyes and a red outline around his entire body.

Use this setting to give all the objects on any layer an outline of any width. Videos 21 through 24 cover three incredibly useful effects that can really change your animation's look quite dramatically with very little effort. If you find this to be the case, use the point reduction tool to freehand reduce points from any section of a shape. If you know anything about freehand vector drawing you'll know complex shapes usually are made up from way more points than they actually need. Want to remove something from a shape? Erase it, just like you would on a real pencil and paper drawing. The Eraser tool is pretty much the reverse blob tool. Wherever your drawing overlaps a shape on the same layer, what you've drawn becomes part of that shape. The blob tool works a bit like pushing paint around on a canvas. I've heard people say Moho is hard to draw in freehand but so far I haven't found that to be the case. The blob tool lets you draw and add to shapes freehand and works particularly well with a drawing tablet (in fact many of the drawing tools do as Moho supports pressure sensitivity). Video 12 is worth mentioning as it is the longest, at 15 minutes, but the most fun, demonstrating the new (well new for Anime Studio 10) blob, eraser and point reduction tools. Simply by drawing and adding to your shape. The Blob tool lets you create complex shapes Quite a few of the tools have already been used in earlier tutorials so it's not a big strain to take in all the information (and this post would get quite boring if I started describing everything covered in each). This post I work my way through the remaining sixteen and discover some pretty sweet, time saving effects in the process.Ĭontinuing on from video 11 through 20, this block of videos mainly covers updates to various tools and shows you how they all work. Twenty six videos in total, of which, I completed the first ten.

In my last entry I was part way through the second batch of Moho and Anime Studio (Both) video tutorials.

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