Little Green Dog Channel

[Greenlaw]

We posted a new cartoon today...


Video Link: Apple Cat

Apple Cat is an animated short film created as an example for a tutorial video about, um, creating an animated short film. This short was almost entirely created in Moho Pro 14.2...including the storyboard and animatic!

Watch for Let's Make A Cartoon! Apple Cat BTS & Tutorial next time on the Little Green Dog Channel!

[Greenlaw]

I know, I know...we're running behind schedule, but our first tutorial video is in its final editing stage! Yay!

Mame-chan made a Community Post about it, and you can read it here:

Little Green Dog Channel Community - 9/12/2024

See you in the Community!

[Little Yamori]

Ganbare!!

[Greenlaw]

Thank you, Little Yamori! It's getting there.

[NanotechBeasts]

Scareplane - 10th Anniversary Edition was released this afternoon.

For this edition, we remastered the sound and picture quality to commemorate the launch of our Little Green Dog channel on YouTube. You can watch it here...



Man, I can't believe it's been 10 years since we made Scareplane. As some here know, the original version was our first animation created with Moho, or what was then called Anime Studio 9.5.

I can honestly say that Moho and Scareplane changed the course of my career!

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Next week: Our official channel announcement video!

I never saw this one before but it's adorable how it's just make believe. It had such a cute playful feel!

[Greenlaw]

Thanks, NanotechBeasts!

Scareplane was fun to make, and it had a deeper purpose for me too. At the time, I was working insane hours creating VFX for movies and TV, and I needed a diversion to keep my sanity. I saw Mike demonstrate Smart Bones for Anime Studio 9.5 (what would later become Moho...again,) and decided that was it. To learn ASP/Moho as quickly as possible, I storyboarded each shot in Scareplane to test a different feature in the program. And it paid off because creating Scareplane changed my career path for the next 10 years, working in cartoon animation...which I really love doing!

The characters in Scareplane are from a comic-strip I was drawing at the time, based on our two cats and our child when they were still a toddler. I'm planning to bring them back in more Moho animations after I get this batch of tutorial videos I've been working on uploaded to our channel.

The first tutorial video is coming out any day now, and a new tutorial video will roll out every week or so after. This first one unexpectedly blew up into an 'epic' project and took forever to finish. My producer says I need to knock it off and start cranking out more 'normal' tutorial videos. Tip: Never argue with your producer...especially when you're married to her.

[NanotechBeasts]

Thanks, NanotechBeasts!

Scareplane was fun to make, and it had a deeper purpose for me too. At the time, I was working insane hours creating VFX for movies and TV, and I needed a diversion to keep my sanity. I saw Mike demonstrate Smart Bones for Anime Studio 9.5 (what would later become Moho...again,) and decided that was it. To learn ASP/Moho as quickly as possible, I storyboarded each shot in Scareplane to test a different feature in the program. And it paid off because creating Scareplane changed my career path for the next 10 years, working in cartoon animation...which I really love doing!

The characters in Scareplane are from a comic-strip I was drawing at the time, based on our two cats and our child when they were still a toddler. I'm planning to bring them back in more Moho animations after I get this batch of tutorial videos I've been working on uploaded to our channel.

The first tutorial video is coming out any day now, and a new tutorial video will roll out every week or so after. This first one unexpectedly blew up into an 'epic' project and took forever to finish. My producer says I need to knock it off and start cranking out more 'normal' tutorial videos. Tip: Never argue with your producer...especially when you're married to her.

Well it was just adorable! I am in the middle of considering another career change myself. Not really sure where I am going though.

[Greenlaw]

Before I forget...

We uploaded our first Moho tutorial video to the Little Green Dog Channel! Yay!



If clicking on the image doesn't send you to the tutorial video, here's the direct link: Let's Make A Cartoon! A Quick Tour!

In this episode, I show how an animated cartoon is created from start to finish...in 20 minutes!

Here are the chapter markers...

0:00 Intro
0:48 Part 1 - Let's Meet Moho!
3:17 Part 2 - Let's Make A Cartoon! Preproduction - Concept & Design
4:44 Preproduction - Storyboarding
6:15 Preproduction - Creating the Animatic
7:32 Preproduction - Animatic Review
8:02 Production - Drawing the Character
9:27 Production - Rigging the Character
12:17 Production - Painting and Rigging Background Art
13:18 Production - Layout or Blocking Pass
15:44 Production - Making Apples...Lots Of Apples
17:05 Production - Layout Review
17:31 Production - Animation Pass
18:19 Production - Animation Review
18:45 Closing

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[Greenlaw]

Next time, we will kick-off Part 1 in a mini-series about how to draw in Moho.

This mini-series is aimed at new Moho users, and we'll also be squeezing in tips & tricks videos for advanced users along the way. Stay tuned!

[Little Yamori]

Nicely done, it was enjoyable to watch and learned some too.

Thanks for doing this

[Greenlaw]

Tutorial Link: Let's Draw Vector Art In Moho! Part 1

Learn how to create vector art in Moho Pro! Part 1 introduces the essential tools and concepts for drawing almost anything you can imagine. If you're new to Moho, this tutorial also explains Tool Shortcuts and Workspace Navigation. Download the free Moho project file to follow along!

Project Download Link: Draw Exercise Project

This episode has essential info for new users and, hopefully, some useful tips for seasoned users.

The 'Let's Draw Vector Art In Moho!' mini-series continues in Part 2, in which we apply what we learned in this tutorial to create a character for 2D puppet rigging and animation.

Let me know what you think!

Here are the chapter markers...

0:00 Intro
0:41 What is Vector Art?
1:49 Moho's Vector Drawing Tools
5:22 Select Points Tool
6:17 Modifier Keys For Tools
7:05 Transform Points Tool
7:47 Add Points Tool
10:57 Curvature Tool
12:51 Select Shape Tool
15:13 Create Shape Tool
15:56 Hide Edge Tool
16:10 Other Drawing Tools
16:21 Let's Draw!
16:42 Free Project Download
17:01 About Navigation
18:21 Exercise #1 - Drawing With Add Points
28:01 Exercise #2 - Closed Curves And Shapes
29:28 About Tool Shortcuts
44:18 Helpful Advice
44:56 Closing and Part 2 Preview

[JoelMayer]

Cool Beans, Greenlaw i liked it a lot ^^

Can i ask a silly question but i've been looking for a screen recording software that does the little "zoom to cursor" thingy... i see your videos do feature that, do you have a recommendation for me?

[Greenlaw]

I almost forgot: I also posted this yesterday. It's not new (at least not to forum visitors,) but now it has audio...

Endless Nachos

[Víctor Paredes]

That was fantastic, Dennis! I love how clear and well structured the tutorial is.
This is one of the hardest topics to teach, at least in my experience, and you tutorial covers everything flawlessly.

[Hoptoad]

Well done.

Funny, after reading your posts for years, I never realized you were a cartoon. Now it makes sense, why you know so much about animation.