Rigging and Animating Vectors in Moho Pro

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Rigging and Animating Vectors in Moho Pro

Animate a vector based character using Moho's bone and animation tools

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Rig Characters Made in Moho

This course comes with a ready to go vector based character. You can use your own designs to follow along, too!

Create Dials for Facial Features and Actions

Bones can go further than body rigging. You will learn how to create dials that control eye blinks, emotions, head turns and other actions.

Rig Using Bones and Meshes

With Moho's bone and mesh systems, you have a powerful animation combination. Beginner and Advanced techniques are covered.

Use Targets and Physics for Robust Motions

Moho's target bones allow you to stick feet and other body parts to areas of choice while physics emulate danging based on character movement.

Learn How to Test Your Rig with Animation

Once we rig the character we will create a short jumping animation to ensure everything is working as intended.

Downloadable Source Files

All files used throughout this course for your reference.

Rigging_Animating_Vectors_Moho_Files.zip

37.4 MB

Introduction

Learn what this course is all about!

What You Will Learn in this Course

5 mins
97.6 MB

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Prepare Your Character for Rigging

We will begin by overviewing the character design, drawing out the bones needed to animate and label the new bones for organization.

Overview of Character Design

4 mins
43.9 MB

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Separating Hair Strands from Main Hair Layer

11 mins
167 MB

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Drawing the Bones

11 mins
113 MB

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Labeling the Bones

6 mins
69.2 MB

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Binding Bones to Character

By using Layer and Point Binding, we can attached our character layers to the bones.

Layer Binding to Bones

7 mins
74.8 MB

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Connecting Arms with Point Binding

8 mins
146 MB

Connecting Legs with Point Binding

6 mins
70.8 MB

Connecting the Coat with Point Binding

7 mins
97.5 MB

Binding the Shirt

6 mins
106 MB

Binding the Hair

8 mins
100 MB

Correcting Body Movements

Even though everything has been bound, we still have glitches and unsightly anomalies cropping up with each movement. We will be using Smart Bones to correct most of this.

Anchoring with Target Bones

9 mins
98.3 MB

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Constraining Bone Rotations

8 mins
134 MB

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Correcting First Front Arm Bend with Smart Bone Actions

10 mins
177 MB

Correcting Second Front Arm Bend with Smart Bone Actions

10 mins
164 MB

Correcting Back Arm Bends with Smart Actions

9 mins
141 MB

Correcting Legs with Smart Bone Actions

10 mins
149 MB

Adjusting for Bottom Torso Bends with Smart Bone Actions

16 mins
393 MB

Adjusting for Top Torso Bends with Smart Bone Actions

13 mins
281 MB

Finishing Corrections on Torso Bends

11 mins
253 MB

Correcting Leg Pop in on Pelvis

6 mins
79.9 MB

Adding Face Controls

This video is all about adding controls to the face. This includes: blinks, eyebrows and the mouth.

Adding Smart Pin Bone for Pupils

5 mins
53.1 MB

Controlling Eyebrows with a Smart Bone

9 mins
105 MB

Creating Blink Smart Bone

11 mins
144 MB

Building an Interpolated Mouth

14 mins
171 MB

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Creating Head Movements

Moving further with face controls, we can create Smart Actions for head turns. Here we will be doing this for left, right, up and down tilts.

Triangulating a Mesh and Linking Layers

11 mins
124 MB

Creating Left Head Turn with Smart Dial

10 mins
186 MB

Creating Right Head Turn with Smart Dial

7 mins
146 MB

Adding Upward Head Tilts

6 mins
121 MB

Adding Downward Head Tilts

7 mins
149 MB

Polishing Mesh Actions

11 mins
190 MB

Animating Mouth and Hair Strands for Head Tilts

11 mins
180 MB

Animating Ponytail for Head Tilts

4 mins
66.2 MB

Polishing the Rig

This section is all about polishing any remaining areas that need more work.

Correcting Bone Connection Issues

7 mins
122 MB

Cleaning Up Misplaced Bone Keyframes

5 mins
62.6 MB

Adding in Bone Dynamics and IK Stretching

12 mins
191 MB

Creating Switches for Hands

6 mins
72 MB

Creating a Test Animation

With the rig now polished and ready, we can jump in and create an animation to test everything out.

Laying Out Canvas and Character Starting Position

7 mins
99.3 MB

Laying Out First Phase of Jump Animation

7 mins
104 MB

Lip Syncing Dialogue

7 mins
104 MB

Animating Body to Dialogue

11 mins
192 MB

Implementing Blinks, Eyebrow Movements and Head Tilts

16 mins
345 MB

Wrapping Up

In this final section we will tie up the course by exporting and sharing final thoughts

Exporting Your Animation

3 mins
42 MB

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Final Thoughts

2 mins
32.6 MB

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