Webinar – Are those really vectors? Giving your animation a natural look with Víctor Paredes

For more information about Moho, visit: https://www.mohoanimation.com Watch this webinar recording with Moho’s Product Manager, Víctor Paredes.In this webinar, Víctor will teach how to create characters with all the advantages of vector animation, but giving them a natural illustration look. With the unique drawing and animation features coming with Moho 14, these techniques can be used to animate many different illustration styles! Following the presentation, there will be a Q&A session. About the presenter Víctor Paredes is a Chilean journalist, animator and Moho Product Manager. He has worked as Moho Animator in “Wolfwalkers” (Apple TV+) and as Moho Animation Supervisor in “My Father’s Dragon” (Netflix), Star Wars Visions - Screecher's Reach" and the movie "Puffin Rock and the new friends". In Chile, he has also been a screenplay writer and animator volunteer in many political projects and NGOs. Artwork used in this webinar: Dragon and Knight illustration by Chris Chatterton Poorly researched dinos illustration by Jarom Voguel Droid example and human character are from the short Screecher's reach, created by Cartoon Saloon for Star Wars Visions Volume 2, (C) 2023 & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC. All rights reserved T-rex illustration by Fran Bravo 00:00 Introduction 00:58 Examples of natural looking vectors 09:52 Basic Styles concepts 11:50 Starting an empty project with no Styles 12:14 Importing the T-rex image 13:27 Creating two Styles for drawing the T-rex 15:52 Drawing with Styles 18:28 Drawing the texture 22:43 Line boil settings 24:52 Drawing the rest of the body 28:49 Rigging the t-rex 31:09 Setting up the target bones 32:19 Link Bones 35:00 Rigging the mouth 38:28 Adding a smart bone to the mouth 31:09 Setting up the target bones 41:00 Animating on 1s 42:38 Animating on 3s 43:37 Set the timeline markers on 3s 44:14 Animating the walk cycle on 3s 50:04 Adding Squash and Stretch 51:35 Modifying the styles 52:36 Smart boil 54:00 Q&A