I'm a little more surprised to see SEK along with Squirrel and Hedgehog on the list.

There's a "Switch Layer Icon Script" that got a lot of attention a while back: https://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34078 What it does is it creates small preview images for your switch layer. You can then simply click on the icon to switch to the indicated shape. The script al...

For shaky-cam in Moho, you do need a slightly oversized background, or you can zoom-in slightly on the existing scene. But the neat thing about Moho is that the camera movements are key-framable effects. So create a key frame for camera pan and camera rotate at the time of your choice, right-click t...

I can work around it, but I liked the compactness of OpenEXR and I wanted to see if I could try some color tricks with the Moho and Blender assets in DaVinci Resolve. My first time trying it, so I shouldn't expect it to work without any complications.

I've been working with some OpenEXR files exported from Blender with some of my work recently. The transparency works fine when they're taken directly into DaVinci Resolve, but the normally checkered transparency areas are blacked out when imported into Moho 13.5. Is there a secondary setting somewh...

Try this layer composition: - Character Bone Layer, enable masking; hide all -- Copy of Background texture, mask this layer -- Other body lines, don't mask, don't add to mask -- Face layer, add to mask, exclude strokes -- Other body lines, don't mask, don't add to mask - Background Lines - Backgroun...

Moho's motion blur feature seems to apply multiple additional transparent layers, which greatly increases the processing overhead since each image is its own layer. On the few times I've tried to introduce motion blur in a sequence, I'll import the individual images into a separate program and smear...

If mouth switch layers are your preferred process, you could apply a smart mesh to the entire switch layer. As the head turns left or right, you can use the smart mesh to compress or stretch the appropriate side of the mouth.

Layer order is a discrete keyframe change, similar to selecting a switch layer. This makes a smartbone assigned to layer order very different from a smartbone assigned to a continuous change. Let's say you have two smartbones: one moves a layer's position to the left, the other moves it to the right...

I record audio in Audacity, which supports a range of microphones and offers good noise reduction and compressor effects. For video editing, I use Davinci Resolve, as many others have suggested. You should check your video card compatibility before choosing DaVi-R, though, since version 18 requires ...

Quality find.

I've been looking for something to help me add a little more texture to Moho and Blender, and this definitely looks like it would do the job.

Blender org has been advertising some major changes to the Grease Pencil feature for the past few months. Link to that portion of the user manual, if you like: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.0/grease_pencil/index.html I plan to wait for the first long-term service (LTS) edition, which will pro...

I use smartbones for the upper/lower lips, upper/lower teeth, tongue, and the corners of the mouth and the rotation of the mouth, but then create 2-frame Standard Actions using those smartbones for common mouth positions. I just select and insert the appropriate standard action into the timeline, th...

I use custom shortcuts and make them all designed to be used with the left hand without looking at the keyboard or using my right hand at all, so it can keep holding my stylus or my mouse. To achieve that, I take advantage of years of FPS gaming that trained me to use my left hand to press every ke...

46 and didn't even start with the software until I was almost 42..