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

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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