10. Basic Smart Warp

In this series of 38 tutorials you will quickly learn all the basics of working with the software. The tutorials are organized in seven sections and were designed to be easy to follow, clear and to the point. Basic Interface videos 1 to 4 In the first part, you will learn the overall interface, how the layer structures work, what is the logic of the timeline, how you can animate already created characters and how to export your animation. Basic rigging with bitmaps videos 5 to 12 In the second part, we will show you how to create a puppet from a Photoshop file. You will learn how to prepare the illustration, create a basic skeleton and even create distortion meshes and Smart Bones to animate expressions easily. Basic Animation videos 13 to 15 In the third part we will cover concepts about movement, how to use different keyframes types, why and how to use the graph and even create cycles of animation. Vector Drawing Videos 16 to 21 Once you know all the basics of working with images, we will move to the vector drawing tools coming with Moho. In this fourth section you will learn everything related to the drawing and filling tools, the basics of masking, the power of Liquid shapes and, finally, how to draw an entire character in Moho. Rigging Vectors videos 22 to 26 The fifth section will show you the difference between rigging vector and images, how to set up Smart bones for vector, rigging and entire character, creating Vitruvian bones and animating the vector character. Animating Backgrounds video 27 With all that done, in the sixth section we will move to set up our background. You will learn how to create parallax to give more depth to your scene, use the camera tools and even add automatic wind to your scene. More tools in detail videos 28 to 38 Finally, we will cover other tools that can be very useful for your characters and scenes, such as the different options of the timeline, controlled bones, the powerful particle system, frame-by-frame layers, automatic physics, scripts, actions, references, quad meshes, brushes and layer comps. You can download the necessary files here: Character and props illustrations made by Óscar Chávez. Background illustration made by María Pareja. For more information about Moho, visit For tutorials about the new Moho 14 features, please check this playlist: Do you have questions or need feedback? Join our Official forum: and Discord server to share your work and discuss ideas with the Moho community!