Note #1: The above design is based on the old Moho version 5 logo. I only added the "1." It is my carefully considered prediction of the version 15 logo.
Note #2: If you had hopes for news about new features or anything like that, please lower your expectation before proceeding. Thank you.
Note #3: The following information about Moho version 15 (not yet released), and its developer Mike Clifton, may be wrong. I'm really good at guessing when I lack information or facts, but everybody makes mistakes on occasion, so take the following with a grain of salt.
In his childhood, Mike Clifton wanted more than anything to make a computer-generated 2D cartoon of his awesome character (pictured above). "I must become a digital animator!" he said to a photo of his mother, who was in the back yard at the time. "By golly, my beloved cartoon character with blue skin and two big teeth will live! He will blink and walk, and when he talks, his lips will synchronize with the dialogue!"
The inquisitive barber who regularly cuts Mike's hair referred to his infatuation with creating his own cartoon as "Mike's optimistic heartfelt obsession."
Unfortunately for Mike, the software he desired simply did not exist. "I refuse to do in-betweens," he wrote in his journal, trembling with suppressed rage at the mere thought of creating in-betweens by hand within his precious animated masterpiece.
But what on Earth could Mike do? Develop his own software?
Actually, yes! Mike hated school and couldn't even remember his own phone number, but, lucky for him, programming is super easy.
"First I will create the software," he wrote in all caps on his large dry-erase board, then he drew a cube, colored the cube solid black, erased the cube with his hand and then left the room, washed his hands, came back and added, "When I'm done, in a year or two, three at the most, I will start working on the cartoon." And then he drew his beloved character, along with a speech balloon that said, "I believe in you, Mike!" And then he high-fived himself.
Mike Clifton named the software "Moho," an acrostic of "Mike's Optimistic Heartfelt Obsession."
Mike enjoyed coding the software but it took more time than he predicted, as the more he worked on it, the more ideas he had for improving it.
"Let it be known that I will begin selling Moho and use the monies collected to help fund its development," he scribbled onto the title page of The Hobbit.
Immediately after Mike released Moho online, it was embraced by a horde of animators and aspiring animators (all of whom also hated in-betweening, including and especially the professional in-betweeners). "Success!" Mike spelled-out in green beans on his dinner plate.
And so time passed, as it always has and probably always will as far as I'm concerned. Every night, Mike Clifton dreamed about his cartoon character, but when the sun rose, he was back at his computer, only working on Moho. "I need to work on Moho for another six months, maybe seven, possibly eight, but no more than nine (or ten), and then I can finally use it to create my awesome cartoon," he tapped in Morse code with his keyboard's shift key.
Nonetheless, the ideas kept coming. And so he missed his murky deadline, as well as the next, and the next, and the next. . ..
After releasing each new update of his software to the public, Mike would celebrate by writing "Moho is done!" on the fog in his bathroom mirror.
Inevitably, however, usually within a day, if not five minutes after making his pronouncement, Mike would spontaneously imagine several new features for Moho. His reaction to this unwelcome burst of creativity was usually to find something he could rip in half and then rip it in half, such as a banana. On one particular occasion, however, after conceptualizing the Magnet Tool, he stated, "I absolutely must add this feature! It will save me YEARS of animation time. Heck, I would be foolish to start working on my cartoon now. One month spent improving Moho could save me multiple months of animation time!" Pleased with his logic, Mike withdrew a pin from a tomato-shaped pin cushion he kept in a shoebox in the closet and delicately scratched those exact words into the side of a pencil.
It is with a heavy heart that I must now convey tragic news: Mike Clifton, at this point in time, loses control of Moho. Few people know the details, but some believe he lost it in a high-stakes game of blackjack. But the story of Moho does not end there! Fortunately for Mike's dedicated customers, Mike eventually won Moho back (by defeating someone at competitive rock climbing, according to legend. Details are vague, but apparently Mike only won because his opponent was bitten in the face by a cottonmouth near the summit and had to resign. In my opinion, as the competition was held within an indoor climbing gym, this part of the story might be apocryphal).
In September of 2023, which seemed a lot more recent until I typed it, Mike Clifton released version 14 of Moho. For the second time in twenty-something years Mike Clifton high-fived himself. "My software is capable of doing the in-betweens of a hundred Disney in-betweeners; therefore, Version 15 will be the end of development. And thus, finally, after all these years, I can utilize Moho to work on my beloved, neglected, awesome and unforgotten cartoon -- the reason I began coding Moho in the first place. By golly, I am serious this time. Mark my words." And then Mike chiseled those exact words into the marble cornerstone of the local hospital.
I like this topic, although it is different from reality, but according to normal speculation, the new logo should not be very different from Moho 14, people will be more concerned about the new features of Moho 15 rather than the logo.