Webinar - Animating cycles is easy but don't tell anyone with Víctor Paredes

For more information about Moho, visit: www.mohoanimation.com
Watch this webinar recording we did with Moho Product Manager Víctor Paredes on February 8. In this webinar, Víctor will show how to quickly create a skeleton for an illustration and animate a cycle with it, sharing tips, techniques and some fancy numbers to create a fluid animation that will make everyone think you worked harder than you really did. Following the presentation, there will be a Q&A session.
About the presenter
Víctor Paredes is a Chilean journalist, animator and Moho Product Manager. He has worked as Moho Animator in “Wolfwalkers” (Apple TV+) and as Moho Animation Supervisor in “My Father’s Dragon” (Netflix), the last feature film from five time Oscar nominated studio Cartoon Saloon.
In Chile, he has also been a screenplay writer and animator volunteer in many political projects and NGOs.
For more information about Moho, visit: www.mohoanimation.com
Download the PSD file of this Webinar here: bit.ly/MohoWebinarVictor05File
01:15 Víctor starts
02:02 Setting the character in Photoshop
04:44 Character with body parts fully separated
06:36 Importing the character into Moho
07:40 Rigging starts
09:30 Basic bone parenting explanation
14:30 Rigging the character
18:30 Binding layers to bones
22:51 Testing the rig
23:48 Understanding Target Bones
29:48 Applying Target Bones to the Character
31:27 Understanding Animation in Moho
34:55 Start Animating
38:57 Understanding Cycles
44:30 The Fish Tail Example
45:56 Back to the animation
51:31 Animating with the Motion Graph
53:25 Smart Bones & Mesh Warp
57:53 Q&A
59:33 Question about How to Export the animation
01:03:33 Question about Switching Layers
01:09:50 Webinar ends

[@gustavoreyes25]

Thanks Moho and Víctor for the incredible MasterClass

[@SuspendedLogic]

I really love the pace and his thought process.

[@myMusicHobby302]

Totally agree with your comment...the pace is very good!

[@ZorrotorFPV]

Been there, thank you Victor for the class, and Moho Animation for repost it.

[@md.ibrahimhossen4118]

Awesome tutorial i have ever seen. Thank you so much. Love from Bangladesh

[@sigitpermana8644]

All the good bless for Victor P and Moho team, thank you so much

[@cartoonfive]

Another very well spent hour. Thanks so much for the cool tricks - relative cycle keyframes finally make so much more sense. I love looping animations and have been looking for such techniques for a long time. Glad You shared this with us!

[@abbaroonie1625]

Excellent as always Victor.

[@prodigiart]

Great tutorial! I can’t wait to start animating my own characters! Thank you!

[@liushakarengina]

Thanks a lot! Your tutorials are always very helpful!

[@Yumass00]

Many thanks Victor. I was really blind before on how to use bones with sprites. Now I know and this brings me back to Moho from CTA ))

[@Andonchoto]

Gold level teacher!😊

[@mohammedsamir8423]

Amazing 😍😍

[@inknpaintCW]

I missed the live demo! Sorry!
I still love it though!

[@akArtemova]

im a huge fan

[@longdongsilver3267]

Nothing really to say, but I enjoyed this video. Thanks for making and sharing it.

[@CarlosBernardo3600]

[@cartoontwitz4918]

Bro y you dont use dynamic bone option for natural movement instead of delay the cycle keyframe?

[@mohoanimation]

It's an interesting point. Dynamics are very good for long natural movement, but they are calculated in context over each frame. It's hard to create a seamless loop with dynamics, because the first frame and the last frame will probably not be the same.

[@Raufasertapete5m]

Thank you for this very informative and helpful webinar! I was wondering, though, is it smarter to separate the body parts of a character into different layers during or after the drawing/painting process, if I'd draw a character myself?

[@mohoanimation]

Hello! If you are drawing the character to be animated, then it is better to separate it in different layers from the beginning

[@tradecraft_animation]

How do you sync the cycles up with a music track that is more than 1 second or a half a second between the beats?
I tried to ask this question during the webinar, but I was too slow in posting it.

[@mohoanimation]

You can calculate how many frames does the bit cover and use that number as the base of your cycle. To make everything work smoothly, the main thing to consider is smaller cycles need to be always half of the next one and bigger cycles need to be double.
In the case of this webinar, we used a base of 48 frames because that number can be cut in halves several times (24, 12, 6, 3), so it allows a lot of flexibility in the animation.

[@withoutconcerns6626]

beeeeeeeeeeeest！！！

[@animator2547]

31:15 Character ready to be animated

[@cartoontwitz4918]

Hi

[@siddharthmahindrakar314]

Help!
I link bones to layers. But when I try to move bones it's not working. When I move with a manipulate tool it works. But when I try to move with the transform tool, the bones are not moving. And I was not on frame 0.

[@RemarkableHelen]

aaaIs Moho comparable with IClone or any other Human Making Software

[@HalchalAnimation]

Great tutorial! I can’t wait to start animating my own characters! Thank you!