Adding points to PNG images

blackspittle · Post by **blackspittle** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:14 am

I imported a PNG image to moho, and i would like to add points to the 'lips' so i could simulate a lip sync on the character, is it possible? if not please help me with ways i could animate the eyebrow, lips eyeballs in a png image

VERY URGENT PLEASE HELP........

Thanks.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:05 am

You are forever going to be thwarted in your quest to add points to a PNG file...because...PNG files are raster format and you can only add points to... vector format files. If you don't know the difference, now would be a good time to start. Go to Google or wikipedia...

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:13 pm

You could put the image in a bone layer set to "warp using bones".

Then you could... sort of... warp parts of the image by adding bones.

As was said though... PNGs are raster. They have no points.

-vern

bunnyb · Post by **bunnyb** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:12 am

Hi,
you need to look at tutorial 4.3 under help

blackspittle · Post by **blackspittle** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:34 pm

THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN, IM VERY GRATEFUL........

i get the whole vector, raster thing...guys could you please tell me how i could do good lip syncing, eyebrow movements, blinking using a good bitmap image?

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:53 pm

Uh... let's see... take a wild guess here...

Multiple images... add them to switch layers.

Eyebrows are so darn simple just draw them in Moho. That should be the easiest part.

Moho is good for using cut outs for animation. You will need an image editor to create the images and save them as PNG with transparency for each part you want to animate. If you don't have an image editor like Photoshop, try out The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/. It's free.

Once you get that far... and you've done the tutorials that come with Moho... and you still need some help come on back.

Best way to learn is to just try it.

-vern