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Part 11/38. Curvers (and more). Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 11 / 38 – MohoGood morning, afternoon, or evening—whatever time of day this post finds you! 😊Day 11 puts us in tail-wagging territory. My little ducky didn’t have a visible tail, so simple kitty (with a tail) to the rescue to help me practice curvers. Things to Know: ✔ Curvers This also meant revisiting…
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Part 10/38. “Basic” Smart Warp. Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 10 / 38 – MohoToday’s tool: Basic Smart Warp“Basic” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.lol Smart Warp feels like giving your drawing a nervous system.Pull here → everything reacts.Push there → something weird happens three steps away. Still wishing for that alternate universe:Me, full-time student of animation,surrounded by tiny rubber ducks,…
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Part 9/38. Basic Dynamics. Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 9 / 38 – Moho ! In Moho animation software, you can add physics to bones, which makes natural movement much easier to animate. Instead of animating every motion by hand, the software does most of the hard work for you. Bone physics are literally magic. ✨ Things to Know: ✔ Bone Dynamics✔ Angle…
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Part 8/38. Targets Bones. Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 8 / 38 – MohoTarget bones are simple. Move the little red handle, and the arm or leg follows. Everything bends, everything stretches. Instant pose, instant motion. Things to Know: ✔ Target Bones✔ Bone Constraints ✔ Deselect all Bones ✔ Select Bones Tool✔ Manipulate Bones Tool✔ Transform Bones Tool Steps to Creating a Target…
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Part 7/38. Switch Layers- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 7 / 38 – Moho The /swiCH/ — choosing one thing instead of another.That’s exactly what Moho switch layers do. They let you swap between different layers during your animation. One frame shows one layer, the next frame shows another. Put different options inside—mouth shapes, eye blinks, hand poses—and switch between them as the…
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Part 6b/38. Basic Binding- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 6 / 38 – MohoStill in day six of learning Moho… and my brain was officially frying. Around 10:35 in the lesson he casually says, “It’s not working the way we intended, so we’ll need to use Layer Binding.” Because right now the rig is adhering to bone strength. Oh yes. Clear as mud.…
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Part 6/38. Import the PSD and Basic Rigging- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 6 / 38 – MohoHere we go, here we go — MOHO! 🎬 We’ve officially crossed a small milestone. Day 6 out of 38 means we’re 15.79% of the way through the journey. Not even a week in, and things are already starting to click. Today’s lesson was only 18 minutes long, but wow…
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Part 5/38. How to Prepare the Bitmap on PS- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 5 / 38 – MohoOne of the strengths of Moho is how easily it works with layered files from Adobe Photoshop. You can import a PSD and keep the layer structure intact as it comes into Moho. That’s great news for digital artists, because any app that can export a .psd can fit into…
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Part 4/38. Exporting the Animation- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 4 / 38 – MohoExporting animations. Just a thought off the top—this is an interesting place to put a video about exporting, considering we haven’t made anything worth exporting yet.But, Talleho, on we go. Things to Know: ✔ Types of export options Export animations in Moho by navigating to File > Export Animation (or Ctrl/Cmd+E) Most of my workflow…
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Part 3/38. Timeline Basics- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 3 / 38 – MohoDayyyyy 3 in Moho. First stop, the timeline, move little Gruille, move. Things to Know: ✔ Timeline location: Where your animation lives.✔ Keyframes: Little dots on the timeline. They mark starts, stops, or changes.✔ The playhead: The marker that shows where you are in time.✔ Play button: Press play (or…
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Part 2/38. Basic Layer Structure- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 2 / 38 – Moho“How hard can it be?”Five minutes and nineteen seconds. That’s the length of today’s video. A quick lesson on the hierarchy of layers—how bones, groups, and parent relationships work. I’ve worked with layers before. Easy, right? Layers stack.Groups hold things together.Bones control movement. Got it. 😉 Things to Know: ✔…
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Part 1/38. Overall Interface- Learning Moho from beginner to expert
Day 1 / 38 – MohoTaking a break from wrestling with Character Animator.Diving into Moho: poking around the interface, fiddling with tools, seeing how animation actually works.Goal: one new thing a day, little by little, building toward something that moves. This is the tutorial video series I’m following—if you want to follow along, and have…
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PS + Character Animator
I’ve been continuing to practice rigging in Adobe Character Animator, which reads character files from Photoshop (or Illustrator). I strongly prefer drawing in Procreate, though, so after I finish my artwork I bring everything into Photoshop and reorganize the layers so Character Animator can read them properly. It’s a bit tedious, but that’s the tradeoff…
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Auto Swap
Tried Character Animator Auto Swap for the first time. It was… interesting. Kinda magic, kinda work in progress. I only set it up with two drawy arm drawings, which is probably the bare minimum you can get away with, and it showed. lol Sometimes the swap landed where I wanted. Other times it didn’t, but…
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Character Animator
This might be the most fun creative work has felt in a long time. There’s something so deeply satisfying about getting lost in a new tool—this time, Adobe Character Animator. Who knows how long the program will stay relevant with so many new AI-driven tools popping up every week, but that’s beside the point. The…
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screen break
What started as a short December break in 2024, turned into an almost eight-month hiatus. I did finish my master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology (🎉 hooray for that!), but I’ve also been navigating some medical issues. That’s put me in a strange creative space. For me, creativity runs on energy—and when the energy…
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move move move
Something unexpected and pretty amazing happened this month—Mr. @thedugmahnke, a DC comic artist, visited my site! Not only did he say it was “cool,” but he also shared one of my posts. What!? Who knew my little ‘O’ Owls would delight anyone lol. How fun is that? I’m going to print these screenshots and hang…
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sequoia & kings
Module 3: Cutting to the Chase – Producing and Editing a Narrative and Field Production (Weeks 5 & 6) “God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.” — John Muir. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park is a little over an hour drive…
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art of sound
Module 1: Painting a Picture with Sound – Audio Design and Podcasting. READING AND WRITING: From Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production, 2nd Edition, Focal Press, 2008 RESEARCH TO INFORM: Made Ya Look starts at 1:01Made You Look 2024 Mercury Awards: Use of Humor in a Single Broadcast Radio Spot: Agency, Production Company, Advertiser,…
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Quad®
My son loves hamburgers. It’s an unhealthy obsession. He eats a Quad® AND a double-double, and is finally full, a true miracle for an 18-year old boy. Happily, I believe In-N-Out is the only company in 2024 that didn’t get the memo that inflation is happening. I was excited a to start a new experimental…
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citrus sinensis
or orange tree. My commitment to producing something was severely challenged with this one. It was an experiment in pushing boundaries, and I learned more about what NOT to do than what to do. But hey, it’s done—not perfect. If there’s one thing I gained, it’s the accomplishment of painting the background. Mostly, I have…
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digital animation, experimental tech-niques
Learning and teaching are my passions, and one of my favorite learning platforms is Domestika! Over the past couple of years, I have purchased ten of their courses and enjoyed every one of them to varying degrees. Recently, Domestika changed its pricing structure to a flat fee of $19.99 per class or $109 for unlimited…
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kings canyon national park
Embracing Summer Adventures: Our Escape to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Maybe I’m hopelessly optimistic, but every summer, I make the mistake of thinking I will have MORE time with the boys out of school. 🌞 Here I am, three weeks since my last post! Life has been a whirlwind with our house upside…
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black bird
Recently, I have enjoyed experimenting, using some of my old photography, a crazy fun stop-motion app, a few free stock images from Unsplash and Pexels (what amazing sites!), and some of my random iPhone images. It is so interesting to revisit old files and realize how differently I would treat the images today, mostly with…
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monarch
The Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is one of only five sites in California where annual counts exceed 10,000 butterflies. Monarch butterflies undertake an incredible migration, traveling more than 1,220 miles from the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada to the mountain forests of central Mexico. Every year, these striking orange and black beauties land…