The Green Umbrella picturebook trailer

[cynthia]

This animation was done using beautiful illustrations by Maral Sassouni. I am just amazed how fluid Moho can make bitmap images -- check out the elephant's trunk in scene 4 (after the ocean scene). Many thanks to Synthsin who gave me an incredible amount of help with rigging the cat pulling a wagon and advising how to keep the wagon from bumping up and down with the cat's walk by constraining the y coordinate*. For guidance with the bear's flying machine with all the rotating wheels, I watched Victor Paredes' cycling webinar over and over--starting @ 42 minutes in https://youtu.be/VOLVMK1TAaM?list=PL6VL ... pfE1iE-bHS
Used the new image warp on the ocean waves. Could have been better but not too bad for first go-round with this new tool. Watched Funksmaname's videos for help with this. https://www.youtube.com/user/Funksmaname


https://vimeo.com/198642637

* My notes from Synthsin's post:
How to adjust influence of one bone over the other using x,y coords
Select the bone you want to influence with the bone tool>Bone constraints drop down>Position control bone>X-axis and Y-axis fields.
"Position control Bone" means the root bone of the rig. In the coordinates fields, these are not actual coordinates but the relationship or degree of influence between the selected bone and the root bone. For example, in The Green Umbrella where the cat pulls the cart, "1" in the x field means a 1 to 1 relationship between root and wagon, and in the y field, the zero means 0 influence.
So the root bone only influence back and forth, not up and down.

[jahnocli]

Looks great!

[stex]

Very nice!
In its genre I find it excellent, very beautiful and expressive drawing style

steX

[SimplSam]

This is great work, a nice way to bring a story to life.