Moho Animation Forum

Hello again friends,

Any tips for creating nice crayon-like textures in Moho to fill shapes?

I don’t want to use an image because I’ve had very bad results with them before when the texture is complex (issues like nasty stretching, unwanted rotation, etc) when the vector shape is deformed by bones.

So I want to try a Moho-native texture yet can’t quite get a good result from what I’ve tried so far.

Cheers.

use stroke-only with a "crayon" brush rather than filled shapes?

or multi-pass renders: with (Project settings) Render Style > Fill Style > crayon as necessary.

Yeah, using a Moho brush with a nice 'crayon' texture is the way to go. Technically, it will still pixelate when scaled up large because the brush texture is still a bitmap image, but that's not the same as scaling an imported bitmap image.

Also, consider using bitmaps as fills for a shape's Stroke as well as the Fill. This is what I did for the Puss-In-Boots animations seen here:

Puss In Boots Demo Reel

I used a similar technique for this movie title sequence, created before I worked on Puss:

https://vimeo.com/123577740?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Almost everything in this video is vector art, just textures with med-res and/or tileable low-res images. I did this mostly because I was creating FHD footage on an underpowered notebook, but performance was good, and the final rendering looked very good. (Client was very happy with it.)

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

use stroke-only with a "crayon" brush rather than filled shapes?

Yes, I tried this but the result wasn't great. Maybe I need to keep tweaking it.

consider using bitmaps as fills for a shape's Stroke as well as the Fill

Any pointers on what the bitmap has to look like? I mean, more jagged edges, stronger fill, etc. I'm not quite sure where to start either creating for finding these bitmaps.

As always, thanks so much for your time and help.

As a start you should open some of the brush bitmaps and study their properties. For a crayon effect I suggest to create something high-contrast. MAybe you could scan in some real crayons and work from that.