Moho's robust bone system is great for creating quick, eye pleasing animations. And with the Actions panel, you can save, edit and reuse these actions at any time.
Learn the Different Action Types
In this course you will learn how to set up the three main action types: Smart, Morph and Regular. In addition, we will go over various tips and tricks to ensure your workflow is being maximized with this feature.
Learn About Character Animation
These lectures also act as a crash course in character animation as we will be applying anticipation, follow-through, and other animation principles to help solidify our library.
Here is a breakdown of everything we will cover:
How to create the three action types: Morph, Regular and Smart
Enhance rigs further with additional Smart Dials
The differences between Copies and References
The importance of grouping and action organization
Build an actions library which can be used for multiple projects and rigs
Build up isolated one step actions which can be linked together with others to create unique animations
Setup robust motions such as a walk cycles and learn what it takes to create eye catching results
Create an action dial that acts as an alternative to the Actions Panel
Import and export actions from and to Moho documents
Contents
Downloadable Exercise Files
Download files to follow along with the course here.
EXERCISE FILES_Building Actions Library in Moho 13.zip
We will begin building actions by creating step poses or morphs. These are one frame actions we can save, reuse, edit and invoke at any time.
Building Stand Poses
11 mins
212 MB
Building Down Poses
12 mins
245 MB
Building Up Poses
14 mins
288 MB
Building Talk Poses
8 mins
167 MB
Building Other Poses
8 mins
166 MB
Building Animated Actions
Now that we have some step actions established, we can focus on building reusable animated sequences, such as a walk cycle, which can be saved, edited and reused.
Building a Walk Cycle
23 mins
608 MB
Building a Run Cycle
23 mins
550 MB
Building a Jump
8 mins
178 MB
Other Actions Tips
Here we go over other action tips to help with your productions.