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Designing Your Character

Designing Your Character

In this video we will overview the process used to create the character for this course. This includes exporting a PSD file through Procreate.

Rigging and Animating PSDs in Moho Pro

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Downloadable Source Files

PSD_Rigging_Moho_Pro_Exercise_Files.zip

Introduction

What You Will Learn in this Course

Preparing Your Character for Rigging

Designing Your Character

Reducing File Size with Photoshop Script

Reducing File Size Through Layer Exporting

Importing Character PSD into Moho

Rigging Your Character

Adding Main Bones

Binding Image Layers with Smooth Joint

Correcting with Constraints

Anchoring with Target Bones2

Adding Dynamic Hair Movement

Assigning Head Pieces to Layer

Creating Bones for Hair

Creating Smart Warp Mesh for Hair Strands

Creating Smart Warp Mesh for Back Hair

Applying Hair Meshes to Side View

Applying Meshes to Front View

Adding Face Controls

Creating an Optional Eye Switch

Re-drawing and Masking the Eyes

Adding Controller for Pupils

Controlling Eyebrows with a Dial

Creating Blink Dial

Creating Subtle Head Turns

Creating a Mesh for Subtle Head Tilts

Linking Layers Appropriately

Adding Smart Dials for the Head Tilts

Wrapping Up

Adding Controls to Other Head Phases

Polishing the Character

Creating the Main Poses for Animation

Finishing Animation with Lip Syncing

Exporting Your Animation

Final Thoughts