Animating a Complex Scene in Moho Pro

Just finished a fairly complex scene and thought I'd share some of my struggles. Because, why should I suffer alone?

00:00 - Start
01:10 - How I lay out a ‘radio play’ before animating
03:05 - Anatomy of a scene in Moho
06:37 - The odd things one ends up rigging as well…
07:06 - Placing the characters (now it gets hairy)
08:36 - Holding, placing interacting with objects
09:28 - That’s just the eye rig…
09:45 - Walk cycle retiming tip
10:31 - Table cloth (a real b*tch)
13:22 - Animating other objects in the scene (cereal bowl)
14:09 - Dropping items
14:39 - Ain’t nobody got no time to do frame-by-frame (auto tweening rules 👑)
15:28 - Tentacle animation…
17:39 - The old (abandoned) version of the fight
19:24 - The new version of the fight
19:52 - Animation of Frank getting a beating
22:52 - The complexities of climbing on a table from a chair
23:41 - The trouble with instance in Moho (rant)
24:55 - Instances, Layer reordering and body turns (rant 2)
28:01 - Interacting with other rigged objects
29:28 - Interaction between rigged objects (target bones are problematic)
30:41 - Masking objects (and fake switchin masks off)
32:09 - The actual final scene

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