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If anyone's interested I have worked on a project that involves some animations done in Moho. I can't show everything but here's a trailer that shows some of the material. Watch it here: http://www.sody.co.uk/soulsikher.html

There's some bits and pieces of animation, mostly involving a mosquito but also a semi-3D pong, a man from India with a peacock (the bird, not a penis shaped like a vegetable), straight animation and live-action/animation. You'll have to look closely because the trailer is hectic but I hope you enjoy it. The animations will be shown competely as part of a one-man show in the UK, about 5 minutes of animation total. It's a multimedia driven comedy show from Britain with a lot of material about India and the Sikh culture so naturally a Dutch atheist white man like myself was asked to do the animation...

About the use of Moho; thanks to the bone structure I was able to create a moving, bending and stretching mosquito with one single drawing. I used tweens to make his eyes move, make the eyelids to form expressions and cycling came in handy for flapping wings. I used .avi video clips in the background to combine animation and live action, sometimes I also used Moho to alter the video, resize, camera blur and fades.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

I like the Moho bits. Must take some work to synch something like the mosquito flying around his head. Good work as always.

Yeeehaw! Looking forward to see the show someaday

Here are some stills from the trailer with some Moho specific comments:

http://www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/souls ... hading.jpg
I like the shading feature, although with large offsets and sharp edges it tends to look distorted. The way you can apply it to a layer or a group makes it quite versatile.

http://www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/soulsikher_mask.jpg
You can't see it here but when the mosquito was behind the man I used a quick-n-dirty "blob" as a masking object for the contours. When the mosquito was completely behind the man I just turned visibility off, faster rendering!

http://www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/soulsikher_popeye.jpg
Two bulging eyes that were tracked frame-by-frame in Moho. I used a dissolve (opacity tween) from the real eyes to these eyes so the popping looked more convincing.

http://www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/soulsikher_3d.jpg
This is the pong game in 3D with a solid wall and cube-like paddles. Because of the poor depth sorting I had to render it in about 6 segments and adjust the center points to fix the layer order. Rotating the camera screwed up the depth sorting.

http://www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/souls ... rawing.jpg
Unlike many users I find the Moho drawing tools to be pleasant for cartoon characters. The limbs of the man look a bit weird because the contours had to resemble India. Thanks to the bones i could animate the neck and head of the peacock with just one drawing. The feathers were duplicated and I slightly rotated that group in the animation to give it a fake 3D perspective during the movement of the head.

I don't think this project could have been done without Moho.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

Wonderful job!!! Inspriring! The attention to detail is very good.

Fun topic, fun music, fun everything!

Thank you for sharing, and also for sharing your insights, tips, and techniques!

jorgy