Day 13 / 38 – Moho
A bit of a breather today. The tutorial walked through the different types of layers in the Layers panel, revisited the red vs. gray channels, and highlighted a key point: every time you animate a property, Moho drops a keyframe in its channel, and it shows up in the timeline.
Things to Know:
✔ How animation channels are recorded on the timeline.
Any time you make a change with a tool, Moho records it in the relevant animation channel, filling it with keyframes.
Lots of Channels
Channels = “slots” for different things (tools) that you can animate with in Moho
- Every thing that can be animated has its own channel:
- Bone: Angle, Translation, Scale, Shear
- Point Motion: individual vector points
- Layer: Opacity, Switch Layer, Custom Sliders
- IK/FK, Constraints, etc.
Keyframes
Keyframes = recorded changes in a channel
- When you move, rotate, scale, or change a property, you’re creating a keyframe in that property’s channel.
- The channel collects all the keyframes for that property and you can see it on the timeline.
the “farther you go” (meaning the more complex your rig, your vector layers, or your animations), the more channels appear in the timeline.
Pro tip: hold Control + Layer to select multiple layers on the timeline. Highlight a bone layer and a switch layer at the same time, and you can edit them both at once. Simple, fast, powerful.
Still wanted to bring something into Moho, so here’s little birdy. And then, of course, I thought: why not a walk cycle?
Big mistake. Huge.
This is me—always running before I can walk. Extend, extend, extend. The enthusiasm is real.
Look at that left leg extension though. Clean. Committed. The kind of shape that makes you think, yeah, this is it.
And there it is: backwards we go.
Day 13 — Afterthoughts
Today felt a little like a “Learning to Export.” Something to tuck away for future reference. I’m starting to see how, the deeper you go in Moho, the more important it is to know where to make tweaks in your animation. I’m thinking the layers are about to get crazy.
Will come back tomorrow and hit it again, probably still living a little ahead of my skis, when I should be a little more aware of the slope.
still learning 🐦 nik
