Hello, everybody. I've been fooling with Anime Studio Pro since it was Moho, but with most of my hobbies I get into it for a while, then back out, then back in again. The other night I got back into 2d animation. The whim overtook me to make a cartoon and the only idea that hit me as feasible to mak...

rotoscope is now available for winXP

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/12/04 ... verywhere/

This link is a good place to start for finding a bunch of rigs for use in blender.

Gnaws, Mancandy is a fully rigged character that is freely available online. It's not a tool built into blender. There are a growing number of fully rigged characters available for download and use in blender. Rigging is much easier than it used to be with previous versions of blender, but it can st...

What would be a lot nicer would be if I could simply get the main view window to display in FRONT of the other windows. Then I could make it almost fill the screen and just click in the exposed sliver of one of the tool windows I wanted to see in front. The fact that everything doesn't quite fit com...

audacity is a great FREE, open source audio editor available from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It's very easy to open a sound file, position the cursor at the point you need some time anb click Generate -> Silence then enter the number of seconds of silence you want in the pop up and the silence...

point animation can get quite tedious if not planned well the and the points not laid out systematically Especially with the irritating 'semi-beziers' AS uses. In my opinion the single best improvement that could be made to AS would be to give us industry standard control-handle based bezier drawin...

Anime Studio used to be Moho and many people had used it for years. That's why there were 4000 registrations when you signed on. As for the 5200, I can't help but suspect that awareness and acceptance of Anime Studio is on the upswing now that e-frontier is behind the marketing push. Unfortunately a...

I am just guessing, but I would say no considering the excellent HTML documentation that comes with AS Pro which is the same that came with Moho.

My advice is go through all the tutorials. They are basic, but they cover just about every aspect of the program.

It would be a nice feature to have some sort of selection tool here. But there is! Of course, it requires you to have named your bones (which is wise anyway- for the important ones if not necessarily every one). Watch the 'Tool Options Bar' just below the 'Menu Bar' next time you have a bone layer ...

An extension of this idea for something like tentacles, elephant trunks, or even a very flexible spine is to make a chain of bones (a series of bones end to end with each parented to the one before it) with each one constrained to the rotation of a single control bone. To tune the curliness of the a...

I told you it had been a while since I did it- I was working with AS just a moment ago and discovered the step I forgot. Once you have created your mouth shapes and switch layer structure, double click on the switch layer and when the dialog box pops up, click the 'switch' tab, then click 'Source Da...

It sin't fully clear from the tutorial, but the way to create custom mouth shapes that will automatically work with your dat file is to create a layer setup just like that in the tutorial file 'Tutorial 5.2.moho' without any shapes in it and create your own shapes in the appropriate layers. That is ...

In response to the original question asking for a good FREE vector graphics program I have a one word reply: InkScape http://www.inkscape.org/ Just like Moho, the user interface takes a little getting used to, but once you master it you will be amazed at the power of this FREE open source program. M...

Check this out- it may have something for both of you:

http://www.videolan.org/