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Which Animation Software is Right For You?
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Which Animation Software is Right For You?

A quick overview of Moho, Animate, After Effects and Character Animator
Created byChad Troftgruben
Last updated 5/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • The strengths and weaknesses of animation apps: Moho, Animate, After Effects and Character Animator

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 49m total length

  • What is this Course About?2:21

    Here I overview what you can expect from the course.

  • Overview of Moho16:35

    What is Moho best used for? In this video we discuss Moho's strengths, such as Smart Bones and it's weaknesses regarding frame-by-frame animation.

  • Overview of Adobe Animate13:39

    Adobe Animate has been around for decades and provides a good middle ground between pure frame by frame animation and bone-like animation. This video covers other aspects of the software, as well.

  • Overview of After Effects with DUIK5:21
  • Overview of Character Animator7:32

    Character Animator stands out with it's unique ability to control characters with your face and voice. By using a webcam and microphone, you can control blinks, eye movement, lip syncing, head movement and more. With the addition of draggers and other special properties, rigs can be set up for several situations.

  • Combining Software to Maximize Effects3:32

    In this video I show a quick example of how you can take character animations from Moho, put them into Cinema 4D Lite (included with After Effects), use After Effects for grading and Premiere for trimming footage.

  • Final Thoughts0:53

    I conclude with my final thoughts.

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of the software we discuss will help, but it's not required

Description

New to animation? Looking for a new workflow? Before you start investing in courses or software, maybe I can help! This course briefly overviews all the animation software I currently teach: Moho, Animate, After Effects and Character Animator. Which software is the easiest to use? Which provides the best bone system? Or what about frame-by-frame? This course covers these questions and offers resources to learn more, if you wish.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginning animators looking to invest and learn a piece of software
  • Veteran animators looking to change their workflow

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