Last week I downloaded the demo and played around with moho. For the pricepoint I am very impressed with moho. I think I am kicking in open doors when I say that the bones tools are amazing. For something comparable you have to upgrade to Toon boom solo, costing more then 20 times as much.
But I also found som quirks or things of wich I don't know how to handle them in a proffesional environment:
A. The most important one for me. Importing illustrator files. Straigth lines become bulby. I tried exporting out of Ai in all legacy formats but no matter what I do, the illustrations don't come out as intended an the way they were drawn in AI in the first place. This is a important feature to me. I get illustrator files delivered from an illustrator at the add agency and then I have to animate his characters. As it looks now I have to redraw them all again in modo, which is double the work.
B. traditional cell by cell animation. Although the sollution with the switch layer is workable I would be hard pressed to call it ellegant. I am using a demo of toonboom studio at the same time and I love the way I can do frame by frame animations in there. Best bet would be to combine both packages together, wait there is something like that... oohh damn solo cost like 2000 +
So I then thought; I buy moho and toon boom studio, do the cell animations in toon boom and the bones animations in moho and then export and combine in whatever package to do the staging cause I find the staging tools to be equal in both packages.
Only to find out that there is no good workable path to cross the work from to an other but to use png no vectors.
BTW> toonboom does import the illustrator files without twisting, but there are no bones in there and for those files I need bones aaarrgghhh.
It would be nice to be able to put sound independebtly on the time line, but it is not a hot issue, cause usualy i make the sound edit on my protools system and then use the entire soundtrack to sync to, this works nice as it is since 5.3 ( i just found moho at the right time I guess) and would I need to adjust some sounds I can go in there and change the sounds to adjust the soundtrack.
Don't get me wrong, I am not bitching moho, I think it is an amazing deal, but for what I want to use it for I need to get some answer on how to work with this limitations, I want to use moho on a forthcomming project, but before I do so I first need to test my workflow and not find out just before the deadline that things are not working out as expected... I buy moho anyway cause at this pricepoint there is not really a reason (prize) not to, so this is not about a buying decision but it is about workflow under thight deadlines.
Anyone has answers, workarounds or comments on this issues please post it is very much appreciated..
regards
Andre