Complete Rigging Course: Moho & Anime Studio

Explore the bone strength tool in Moho to control how much each bone influences image layers, enabling precise warping and improved animation of rigged characters.

Select the offset bone tool to show why it’s an old, unused feature in anime studio 9 and above, and how it reassembled a character after splitting for frame-one animation.

Sketch bones lets you draw paths on a bone layer, enabling tails, scarves, and other appendages to animate with overlapping action in Anime Studio Pro 11.2 and Moho Pro 12.

Use the transform bone tool to resize, rotate, and translate bones with on-bone nodes. Adjust bones to the arm stroke by moving parent and child bones for clean rigging.

Learn how to bind a bone to a layer in Moho, using layer binding to move a head group via a root bone and parent-child relationships for cohesive animation.

Explore flexi binding in Moho Pro 12, binding image layers to bones for flexible rigs, using bone strength, binding each layer, and keyboard shortcuts to speed up rigging.

Explore point binding in Moho to rig a leg, creating bone layers with a root/pin bone and leg, lower leg, and foot, then bind points for precise control.

Master angle constraints in Moho to limit bone rotation and prevent distortion, using negative 70 to 70. Apply to arms and legs with bone constraints to prevent hyperextension.

Set up an independent angle for the feet by selecting non-moving bones, applying bone constraints, and testing with the manipulate console in Moho Anime Studio Pro.

Learn how to use ignored by inverse kinematics with target bones in moho pro 12 to control tails, spikes, and limbs, ensuring inverse kinematics chains behave as intended.

Explore the Arc IK solver in anime studio 10 moho 12, learn to set up bone groups, create thighbone and shinbone, and add target bones to maintain limb arcs.

Master squash and stretch scaling in Moho Pro 12 by binding layers to bones, animating with keyframes, and preserving ball volume while squashing and stretching.

Explore bone dynamics in Moho with torque, spring, and damping forces; adjust constraints to shape ear movement and learn how parent bone motion drives the rig.

Apply bone dynamics in Moho and Anime Studio to a character with no brain dynamics, testing torque, spring, and damping in real time to achieve overlapping action.

Learn to create control bones that drive other bones, using pupil bones linked to the head, and master bone constraints for position, angle, and scale to animate eyes and expressions.

Release points detach the selected points from bound bones, letting you reset rigging. Observe bone coloration to see which points are bound, and ensure you work on the same layer.

Learn how to release bones bound to layers by selecting a layer and using the release layer command, unbinding bones and freeing the head and other bound assets.

Explore using all bones for flexi-binding in Moho and Anime Studio, why this binds a layer to every bone, and note Moho Pro 12 features with older version workarounds.

Master hiding and showing shy bone selections, use show all bones to bring back hidden bones, and toggle show curves to keep a clean rigging and animation workflow.

Convert a bone into a smart bone dial, name it, set min and max angles and duration, and enable separate positive and negative angles for open and close mouth.

Master smart bone actions in Moho to fix leg pinches with inverse kinematics on the action timeline. Learn to create actions on the bone layer and test with target bones.

Explore smart warp in moho pro 12, a feature that uses smart bones and tudy meshes to warp a single image, enabling head and hand turns.

Connect the left arm mesh to the correct layer, test the rig on frame 1, and set up a smart warp action to bend the fingers.

Master rigging a smart warp action in Moho and Anime Studio by cleaning keyframes, building finger point groups, and fine-tuning in-between frames for smooth bending.

Refine shape ordering for proper smart warp in Moho and Anime Studio by adjusting bone and mesh warp layers to align finger shapes and knuckles.

Import a Photoshop PSD character into Moho and Anime Studio, preserve layers and group folders, choose import options, convert to bones, and prep for rigging.

Create and place bones on the character, including root bone on the bone layer, chest, neck, head, arms, legs, and tail. Set up target bones and pivot points for binding.

Apply the flexi binding method to a complete rig in Moho & Anime Studio, binding head, eyes, jaw, neck, arms, legs, and tail, then adjust bone strength and constraints.

Test and tweak rigs by refining flexi bindings, setting bone and angle constraints for the head and mouth, and ensuring proper binding and squash and stretch effects.

Learn to add smart bones and smart warp to arm rigs by creating a left arm warp layer, binding bones, and adjusting points for smooth deformation across frames.